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Next Tampa iOS Meetup on June 28th: What’s new in iOS 10 and Swift 3.0

The next Tampa iOS Meetup has been announced for Tuesday, June 28th at 6:30 p.m., and we’re going to talk about the announcements made at this week’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, with special attention to iOS 10 and Swift 3.0. It takes place at our usual spot: Energy Sense Finance, 3825 Henderson Boulevard (just west of Dale […]

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Want to test an iPhone/iPad game?

Wine Crush is a simple “Candy Crush”-like game that I’m developing for my friends at Aspirations Winery in the nearby city of Clearwater. It’s the first of a few apps that I hope to publish to the App Store this year. If you’ve got an hour or so to spare and are the sort of […]

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Mobile developer news roundup: Making money (or not) with your apps

This roundup of mobile developer news has a theme: making money with your apps, with both practical advice and tutorials, as well as bigger-picture discussions of the topic. Under the Radar is David Smith and Marco Arment’s podcast on indie iOS app development. They make sure that none of their podcasts runs longer than half an […]

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Tampa iOS Meetup, Monday, March 7th: Build a simple weather app (and learn basic network programming along the way)

We’ve just announced the next Tampa iOS Meetup: it’s called Build a simple weather app (and learn basic network programming along the way), and it’s taking place on Monday, March 7th at 6:30 p.m. at our usual spot: Energy Sense Finance, 3825 Henderson Boulevard (just west of Dale Mabry), Suite 300. While it’s fine for a lot […]

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My current side projects: Game development in iOS and Android development with Kotlin

For “Get Your Game On”, my recent presentation at the Tampa iOS Meetup, which I run with mobile designer extraordinaire Angela Don, I put together a “Frogger”/“Crossy Road”-style game. I’ve continued tweaking it and have got the basic game mechanics up to the point where I’m pretty pleased with how they’re working. Now comes the hard […]

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Tampa iOS Meetup, Tuesday, January 19th: Get started with making iOS games with Sprite Kit!

Happy new year, experienced and aspiring iOS developers in the Tampa Bay area! If you’ve made a new year’s resolution to take up iOS, Swift, or game development in 2016, the upcoming Tampa iOS Meetup topic might be just what you need to get started. It’s called Get Your Game On: Getting Started with Sprite Kit, […]

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Swift programming tip: How to execute a block of code after a specified delay

Sometimes, you want some code to execute after a specified delay. For me, this happens often in user interfaces; there are many cases where I want some notification or other interface element to appear and then disappear after a couple of seconds. I used to use an NSTimer to make it happen, but nowadays, I […]