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In this episode Sam Soffes joins us again to show how to implement some rudimentary syntax highlighting of text while you type using TextKit. This builds on the concepts we learned in episode 207, so start there first!

In this episode Sam Soffes walks us through the basic components of TextKit, a framework that allows complete control over the text layout and rendering system on iOS and OS X. TextKit is a complex topic, but with it brings a lot of power. This episode will cover the basics that we can build upon in future episodes.

In this episode we continue with our Starcraft II Guide application, this time focusing on using a table view to edit a model. We leverage a cell with a text field, a cell to select data from another view controller, and a section that is only editable/reorderable with itself.

In this episode I take a stock UITableView and UINavigationController and customize their appearance to match a design for a Starcraft II companion app. We'll leverage Swift enums to capture colors & fonts so we can reuse them in multiple places. We will also utilize the UIAppearance API to style all instances of a UINavigationBar, and get rid of UITableViewCell's default separator indentation.

In this episode we start writing an application-specific API Client. We use Argo to decode our JSON response into an Episode model, including some nested object decoding, date formatting, and wrap it up by testing the implementation to make sure it works.

In this episode I start creating a reusable api client that will make it a lot easier to consume a JSON api and convert the response into model objects. It uses Argo for the JSON parsing, and leverages Swift features to provide a rich callback for the API calls.

In this episode we are joined again by Conrad Stoll

In this episode we are joined by Conrad Stoll who shows us how to build a watchOS 2 app to order beer. Data is synchronized from an iOS app, and the digital crown is used to make selections.

In this episode we take a deep look at how focus works with tvOS. We learn how to use UIFocusGuide to redirect focus when the engine cannot find an appropriate element to focus. We also learn some debugging tricks on how to visualize focus moves using Quick Look, and how to use _whyIsThisNotFocusable to troubleshoot lack of focus. Finally we'll learn about custom focus animations and layered images.

In this episode we take our missile animation from last time and update it to use CAAnimations. Using these animations we can add a wiggle, along with a small oscillating rotation to give a little life to the missile. Then we utilize CAReplicatorLayer to have them fan out and fire in slightly different directions.

In this episode we talk about modeling API Endpoints as first class types, rather than relying on strings and string interpolation scattered across your application. For this we'll leverage Swift enums with associated values.

In this episode we take a look at how to provide deep search in our iOS applications. We start by leveraging NSUserActivity to provide relevant search results for recent activities to users. Then we look at how to customize the search results with rich metadata. Finally we look at using CoreSpotlight to fully index the content to make it available for search after we launch our app.

Supporting Handoff in your iOS / Mac applications can really delight users. In this episode we will build handoff support into an application so that users can continue their task on the web, or in a separate Mac application that is registered to handle that task.

In this free episode, we take a look at a core Swift 2 feature: Optionals. Unlike Objective-C, where nil is considered a no-op, in Swift nil is specifically recognized by the compiler, which forces you to handle cases where nil might be present in a variable.

In this episode we look at how to create a custom NSURLProtocol to intercept and alter a network request. This can be useful to provide application-wide interception & logging of network requests, alter requests to change parameters or add authentication, sign requests, or to handle custom url schemes.

In this free episode, Ben explores Swift 2 functions, how argument labels work, returning tuples, the guard clause, as well as extending behavior on core types.

In this episode we take a look at Swift 2's basic types such as Int, Double, Bool, Array, and Dictionary. This episode is part of a series covering Swift 2 from a beginner's perspective.

In this episode we'll learn how to implement self-sizing table view cells in iOS 8. We'll also see what the oft-ignored Compression Resistance Priority and Content Hugging Priority are used for, and finally how to implement dynamic type in our application to support dynamic text sizes.

In this episode we take a look a DZNEmptyDataSet, a useful library for providing a more inviting UI when you have no content to display inside of a table view or collection view. We'll also see how to leverage NSAttributedString to provide styling of the text that is displayed on the screen.

In this episode we take a look at CGImageSource from the ImageIO framework. Using CGImageSource we can perform operations like resize without loading the entire image into memory. In addition, we can extract image metadata like f-stop, aperture, ISO, and camera/lens information.

In this episode, Ben continues exploring NSOperation-based architecture, this time writing operations that present UI for a login screen, load the Core Data stack, and operations that are composed of multiple lower-level operations.

In this episode we welcome our first ever guest screencaster, Sam Soffes! Sam takes us through what it takes to get started with Carthage to manage dependencies. Sam compares Carthage's approach to CocoaPods and walks through how to bring in a 3rd party library into a project.

In this episode we discuss dependent NSOperations. Using dependencies you can queue up a bunch of jobs and they will be run in the correct order, having one provide the necessary state for the next one to run. In the example, we take the large Hubble image, scale it down to a more appropriate size, then apply a Core Image filter to it. Each operation is dependent on the one before it, yet they are all queued up at the same time.

In this episode we examine the asynchronous (a.k.a concurrent) type of NSOperation where we are doing things that involve callback blocks or delegates.