Twitter is one of the quickest way to microblog that leverage specifically us (iOS Developers) to connect & share knowledge. Recently I had been consuming daily dose of content from these top 7 twitter accounts. Paul Hudson ( @twostaws ) Creator of Hacking with Swift - who wrote couple of books on iOS, macOS, tvOS & watchOS. John Sundell ( @johnsundell ) Speaker, Creator of Swift by Sundell blog having tons of valuable tutorials and sessions on Swift programming. Dave Verwer ( @daveverwer ) Author of iOS Dev weekly - a popular & long running weekly newsletter for app developer. Lisa Dziuba ( @lisadziuba ) She built a strong community around iOS development, mobile design and marketing called Flawless-iOS. Sean Allen ( @seanallen_dev ) An indie iOS developer & content creator who came from non-technical background. He owns a popular youtube channel on iOS development & vlog. Donny Wals ( @DonnyWals ) iOS developer at Disney Streaming ...
Recently I published a countdown app . At one point of development - I have to show a timer on a UILabel which ticks on each seconds. As usual I started setting text to a label object - self .timerLabel.text = someString Easy piece of cake right !? But wait ... it won't take much user attention when timer ticks on every seconds. So I decided to make use of a simple animation while label gets text update. I found there are dozens of ways to animate a label. In this short article, I listed 3 best way you can animate text on a label. ( Spoiler Alert 👀- I decided to go with 3rd option) 1. Fade In - Fade out animation : CATransition class has got transition type `fade`. With timing function of CATransition - I was able to see the below result. let animation: CATransition = CATransition () animation.timingFunction = CAMediaTimingFunction (name: CAMediaTimingFunctionName .easeInEaseOut) animation.type = CATransitionType .fade animation.subtype = C...