Author
Matt Neuburg
Senior Mobile Engineer
Matt has been writing and updating his well-known iOS programming books every year since 2010, and is widely considered a foremost educator about Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa. He has also written the definitive guide to AppleScript, as well as some other programming languages. He makes tech topics not only readable but enjoyable. Matt is also a former Classics professor. This means he can read Ancient Greek, which rarely comes up in iOS programming, but is really cool.
Published Posts
More About Split View Controllers in iOS 14
In an earlier article, I talked about how split view controllers (UISplitViewController) have been completely revamped in iOS 14. In particular, they “adapt” to the environment’s horizontal size class in a whole new way. A two-part split view has three “columns”, but they are not all displayed at the same time: The .primary and .secondary …
Split View Controllers Done Right in iOS 14
A split view controller (UISplitViewController) is a pretty cool thing. It allows you to divide the large iPad screen into two parts, each of which is managed by a view controller in its own right. Typically, these are a master view controller and a detail view controller: on one side, the master side, is a …
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Untappable Button
This is a fairly commonly-asked question that I encounter on Stack Overflow: My button (or some other user-interactive view) doesn’t respond when I tap it. And naturally enough, I have a commonly-given answer to go with it. In fact, I have a kind of catechism for helping people debug this situation. Even experienced developers can …
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Diffable Data Sources and Data Storage — Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article about iOS diffable data sources. If you haven’t read the first part, please go back and read it now! Inside and Outside In the first part of this article, I created a table view whose data source consisted simply of the names of the U.S. states, …
Diffable Data Sources and Data Storage — Part 1
When I first started programming iOS (back in iOS 3.2), many of my apps revolved around table views (UITableView). At first, I was surprised by how Apple makes you supply the data to a table view. You don’t just store all the data in the table view. Instead, there’s a separate object, the data source …
Collection View Outlines in iOS 14
In an earlier article, I introduced collection view lists, new in iOS 14, which allow a collection view, or a section of a collection view, to imitate a table view. Collection view lists are the basis for yet another new iOS 14 feature: outlines. As Lovely as a Tree An outline is a way of …
Collection View Lists in iOS 14, Part 2
In an earlier article, I introduced collection view lists, a new feature of iOS 14. I showed how you can easily make a collection view that looks pretty much just like a table view. Now I’d like to talk about some additional table view appearances and behaviors and how collection view lists implement them. List …
Collection View Lists in iOS 14
One of the most significant innovations in iOS 14 is that a collection view can be configured to look and behave like a table view. A collection view of that kind is called a collection view list. A collection view list isn’t a matter of mere layout. Laying out a collection view as a single …
