Many mobile applications incorporate remote web pages, either as passive (static) content — or as in this case as integral parts of the UI. Using the WebKit/WKWebView techniques presented here, your native apps can be better integrated with web content and provide a superior experience to end-users. Two-way Integration …

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In this post, I'll build a simple bar chart in code, and add it to a the default UIViewController created by an Xcode template project. The techniques you'll learn in this article are: Creating a UIView entirely in code Adding Auto Layout constraints to views in the hierarchy using code Calculating view sizes and …

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This technique demonstrates the simple but useful task of capturing the contents of a UIView as a JPEG image data object. The resulting Data object can be written to a .jpg file, uploaded to a web service, or sent as an e-mail attachment (as is covered in this related post). Application This technique is relatively …

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Sending content from an iOS application to external sources like email is a common requirement. This quick post summarizes the steps to implement this feature. Aa an added twist, the project used for this technique post includes capturing an image from one of the app's UIViews. Below is a video demo of the application …

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This techique illustrates a mid-level technique: impelmenting custom Core Graphics drawing in a UIView. Often a custom effect in a View can be implemented by adding subviews and positioning them with constraints. But other times, you just need to take over and draw what you need. In those cases--CoreGraphics to the …

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