Author Archives: idz

About idz

A professional software engineer dabbling in iOS app development.

Using SceneKit and CoreMotion in Swift

Posted on May 2, 2016 by idz

This article describes how to use SceneKit and CoreMotion to create a 360º panoramic photo viewer that lets you explore the scene by moving your phone around. For the purposes of this article I’ll use the image below from Wikipedia. … Continue reading →

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Taming Foundation Constants into Swift Enums

Posted on October 22, 2014 by idz

For most of Cocoa, Apple has done a nice job of wrapping the APIs in native Swift entities. In particular, sets of constants that exist in NS_ENUM enumerations are imported as Swift enums with associated raw values. The situation is … Continue reading →

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Swift Parameter Labels

Posted on October 15, 2014 by idz

I am guessing early on in the development of the Swift language the relationship between a function declaration’s parameter labels and whether they need to be included in a call was much more forward. Maybe it looked something like this. … Continue reading →

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