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Senior iOS developer @ Neato Robotics by day, game developer and wannabe artist @ Black Robot Games by night.
Yari D'areglia on September 8th, 2014.
If you have read some of my previous articles you’ve probably noticed that I love UI customization! It’s an excellent chance to let your App stand out from the crowd thanks to its unique looks and innovative interactions. It looks like Apple really wants us to unleash our creativity and they are proving it with a couple of useful...
Yari D'areglia on July 9th, 2014.
In this article I want to share with you some of the thoughts I had along the way during my transition from Objective-C to Swift. I’ll try to give you hints and I’ll discuss the main pitfalls, trying to compare, when possible, the different approaches of these two languages. So without further ado let’s dive into the...
Yari D'areglia on May 13th, 2014.
The last months were quite intense. Nicola and I, have released an iOS App for a client that right now is heavily featured in the Italian App Store, I’m planning a trip to Japan (actually, my girlfriend is…) and I’ve started a new personal iOS project. Nonetheless, I’m ready to continue on our journey with Auto...
Yari D'areglia on March 16th, 2014.
Ladies and gentlemen, let’s start this tutorial with the right mindset: Auto Layout is SIMPLE! It took me a while to grasp how Auto Layout works and now, looking back, I get that I’ve absolutely overestimated the problem. In this article I’m going to introduce some basic aspects and some tricks that I’m sure will...
Yari D'areglia on January 14th, 2014.
It’s been a while and after some long due time off I’m finally back with a new iOS tutorial. I wanted to add some more details to my previous post showing you how to implement an interactive transition and that’s exactly what I’m going to do with this article! This short video shows a preview of what we’re going to create with this...
Yari D'areglia on October 29th, 2013.
The release of iOS 7 is a breath of fresh air for both development and aesthetics (which I personally love). We can finally create stunning animations for our apps, so I think it’s time to write about how to do it. If you remember my previous post about custom transitions you already know the hard part was drawing a...
Yari D'areglia on September 25th, 2013.
In this quick tutorial I’d like to show you how to add a simple but interesting effect to your UITableView using with just a few lines of code. I love Core Animation and I think it is a fantastic instrument that allows us to easily achieve some interesting effects with almost no effort. So, in this experiment we are going to...
Yari D'areglia on August 1st, 2013.
My holidays are so close I can already imagine myself swimming with dolphins in the blue. But I can’t leave without leaving (pun intended) a good read to you, my beloved readers. If you take a look at my previous posts you can guess I’m particularly interested in UI customization. With this article I want to go a step further...
Yari D'areglia on July 11th, 2013.
Hey Devs! It has been a while since my last article. A lot of things happened in the meanwhile: I changed my nickname (Bitwaker, I love it!) and Gradient 2 beta is a few days to completion (check back soon here!). The time has come to write again, though, so I can stop here with the emo-intro-babbling and go straight to the focus of this...
Yari D'areglia on May 6th, 2013.
Creating VideoGames has always been one of my biggest dreams. I was born in 1981 and I’ve had the privilege to play classic 2D games on pieces of computer history such as the Commodore 64 and the Amiga (500, 500+, 600, 1200 and the terrible CD version). Guys, back then I used to have black curly hair… I used to have hair! Well…...