Eva Diaz-Santana, Author at iOS Development

Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition in iOS

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computational Linguistics (CL) concerned with the interactions between computers and human natural languages. NPL is related to the...

Apr 23, 2017

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

Investing in custom development

With the launch of SignaKit by iNVASIVECODE we would like to explain why you should invest in custom built code. SignaKit is a high-level iOS framework that helps you create...

Jun 1, 2016

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

WebKit, Safari and SafariViewController

iOS and web have been always hand-by-hand since the iOS inception. After all, websites were already 15 years old when iOS saw the light (the first website ever created dates...

Dec 2, 2015

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

UIPopoverPresentationController and UISearchController

UIPresentationController is the presentation management class that backs view controllers presentation. From the time a view controller is presented until the time it is dismissed, UIKit uses a presentation controller...

Nov 4, 2015

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

Dynamic animations: UIFieldBehavior

Dynamic animation is an area of science concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when they are subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of those bodies on...

Oct 7, 2015

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

UIAlertController: Alert and Action Sheet in iOS

In this tutorial, I will show you the new way to display an alert message to the user and associate user actions with that alert message in your iOS app....

Aug 18, 2015

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

MapKit for iOS 9: Flyover, Transit and Customization

During the WWDC 2015, Apple introduced new iOS 9 features in MapKit. The development community has been requesting these feature for a long time and finally, here they are. Let’s...

Jul 28, 2015

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

Core Animation Scroll Layer: CAScrollLayer

The CALayer class has many specialized subclasses, such as CAScrollLayer, CAEmitterLayer, CAGradientLayer, CAReplicatorLayer, CAEAGLLayer, CAShapeLayer, CATextLayer, CATransformLayer. Each of these subclasses has been designed for a very specific task. In...

Jul 21, 2015

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

Quick Look Preview Controller in Swift

Did you know that Apple, through iOS technologies like the UIDocumentInteractionController class and the Quick Look framework, allows iOS developers to provide previews of all types of files even if their iOS app...

May 22, 2015

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

NSAttributedString in Swift

I have been talking quite a lot in the past about how to customize text in your app to improve the UI of your applications. Before iOS 6, Core Text...

Feb 16, 2015

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

MapKit in iOS

iOS 7 has brought a fresh new look to the entire UI, affecting also the Maps and the Map view. Let’s see what those changes are and how to take...

Oct 21, 2013

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

Apple Map Overlay and Aerial Images

Overlay objects are the way to display geographic data on top of a map view. Overlays can take the form of different shapes such as circles (MKCircle), polylines (MKPolyline), poligons...

Jun 25, 2013

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

Customization of UIKit Controls

Before the launch of iOS 5, the customization of some UI elements (navigation bars, switches, etc.) was possible only writing a lot of code, subclassing or adding categories for each...

Mar 26, 2013

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

CAEmitterLayer and the iOS particle system

Let’s talk today about particle systems… particle, what? Yes, you’ve heard it right. You’ve probably seen it already in many iOS apps, particularly in game applications. I think this is...

Mar 10, 2013

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

Google Maps API for iOS with Interface Builder

Today, Google released the Google Map API for iOS. Here you can find all the necessary information you need. You have to register and get the API Key as usual....

Feb 21, 2013

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

NSAttributedString for iOS using Interface Builder

Most of the things that I highlighted during the last post can be built easily with Interface Builder. I tried to replicate the example I showed in that post and...

Oct 27, 2012

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

Introduction to NSAttributedString for iOS

I’ve been talking a lot in the past about how to customize text in your app to improve the UI of your applications. You need to show some text in...

Sep 20, 2012

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

CoreText

As promised in one of the previous articles on Core Graphics, I want to talk about the wonderful Core Text. Consider the topic as a followup of the previous articles...

Apr 30, 2011

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by Eva Diaz-Santana

Adding maps to your iPhone app (MapKit)

Last June, Apple released the iPhone SDK 3.0 with thousands of new fantastic features: copy and paste, magnetometer, undo and redo, GameKit, MapKit, and so on. I was immediately attracted...

Jul 19, 2009

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All posts by Eva Diaz-Santana

Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition in iOS

Investing in custom development

WebKit, Safari and SafariViewController

UIPopoverPresentationController and UISearchController

Dynamic animations: UIFieldBehavior

UIAlertController: Alert and Action Sheet in iOS

MapKit for iOS 9: Flyover, Transit and Customization

Core Animation Scroll Layer: CAScrollLayer

Quick Look Preview Controller in Swift

NSAttributedString in Swift

MapKit in iOS

Apple Map Overlay and Aerial Images

Customization of UIKit Controls

CAEmitterLayer and the iOS particle system

Google Maps API for iOS with Interface Builder

NSAttributedString for iOS using Interface Builder

Introduction to NSAttributedString for iOS

CoreText

Adding maps to your iPhone app (MapKit)

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