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Through this journey of getting to know "how to build apps for the iPhone with Swift", I have encountered a fair share of problems. You can have a read of my previous posts on Getting started with iOS programming Serving HTML content in an iOS app Discovering Core Data migrations And  how to deal with Core Data migrations  to get an idea of the sort of problems I have faced. In this post, I am going to share about a rather simple issue that I encountered very early when I started building my app. The app I am building is an HTML5 app, actually no; A more accurate statement for this would be that it is a hybrid app, as the logic is almost equally distributed between native code and HTML5 code. Problem The problem I had was that when I would add a folder to my iOS app with web content and tried to refer to it using let path = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("index", ofType: "html", inDirectory:"webContent") It simply wouldn...

As I have mentioned in an earlier post , I really enjoying coding in Swift. Now what am I doing with it? Well I am trying to build an HTML5 app that must work on devices with iOS 7. So in iOS8 apple has introduced a whole bunch of features that facilitate easy communication between web content and lets just call it back-end Swift code, but those features are not in iOS 7. So why do I want to build something that would work in an older OS? well I do not expect existing iOS users to upgrade to iOS 8 straight away and i also know a couple of people who would be very reluctant to upgrade their iPhones to iOS 8. Now in case you do not, you can have a read of the "Working with WebViews" section of this post , to know how to serve HTML content with WebViews. So when I started building my app, I wanted to know: How do I invoke some Swift code from my HTML content? Well the solution to this may feel a little bit "hacky" but it is a solution to achieve this.  The followi...

I have not been too fond of Objective-C, which was the primary reason for me to stay away from making iOS apps till now. So what changed? Well Apple has done something very interesting recently and that is the introduction of a new programming language i.e. Swift. Swift is awesome, it almost feels like Python, C++ and Objective-C had a baby with some of their good parts in them. So I have been getting to know Swift and it is an awesome language to program in. What I am going to share with this and a series of blog posts are solutions to some problems that i have encounter while i am trying to finish my first iOS app. The one hurdle that I have encountered while getting started on developing an iOS app is that a majority of the solutions for iOS specific problems provide solutions to them using Objective-C. Which is fair, because Swift has not been around for that long. Anyway let us get started with a few basics, A few basics I would highly recommend having a read of this book...