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Building Airbnb's UI From Scratch - Part 2

May 4, 202111 min read

In this series of posts I am going to be building out the UI for Airbnb's "Explore" tab from scratch. This is an exercise in figuring out how to achieve the different layouts and effects you find in popular apps and I chose Airbnb because I thought i...

Building Airbnb's UI From Scratch - Part 1

May 4, 202110 min read

In this series of posts I am going to be building out the UI for Airbnb's "Explore" tab from scratch. This is an exercise in figuring out how to achieve the different layouts and effects you find in popular apps and I chose Airbnb because I thought i...

iOS View Communication

Jan 25, 202125 min read

https://youtu.be/HRAO9qitgq8 I have gotten a few questions about my recent article on How I Organize Layout Code in Swift, so I thought I would follow up on that and address a couple of the common ones. In this article we're going to look at some exa...

Sorting in Swift

Jan 18, 202114 min read

https://youtu.be/Jtb_f5EY2DY Sometimes you have a collection of elements that are not in the order that you need them. Fortunately, Swift gives us an easy way to get them from that chaotic state into an ordered state. In this article we're going to l...

How I Organize Layout Code In Swift

Jan 11, 202116 min read

https://youtu.be/gZSayiwa5Ao I was asked the other day how I organize my layout code when I am building my UI programmatically using UIKit. In this post I will walk through a variety of things that I have tried over time and end with what my typical ...

The Delegate Pattern In Swift

Dec 31, 202017 min read

https://youtu.be/UIlQ_FHCx_8 Intro Delegation is a commonly used pattern in Apple's frameworks, but I find that many people have a hard time wrapping their heads around it when they are first learning iOS development. And it is no wonder because the ...