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iOS in 24 Hours

Hello all, There isn’t going to be an updated book this year, but I’ve just posted updated projects and am working on updates to the text that I will hopefully be able to release. I’ll be posting errata as best

Posted in Errata, iOS 9 Errata, Notes

iOS 9 Hour 1: Welcome project

If you’re experiencing the error “An App ID with Identifier ‘com.teachyourselfios.Welcome’ is not available” when trying to install the Welcome app on your device, the fix should be simple (and wasn’t required until recently). Click the Welcome project group in

Posted in Errata, iOS 9 Errata

iOS 9 Hour 6: Swift classes are in a single file

Hour 6, page 215 – there is text remaining from the Objective-C edition that mentions a “interface file.” Swift classes are contained within a single file. The text should state that actions are defined after global variable properties in the

Posted in Errata, iOS 9 Errata

iOS 9 Hour 4: Downcasting unnecessary in Using Quick Help

Hour 4, page 147, in the section “Using Quick Help” – Apple has changed the NSDate class so that it properly returns an NSDate object, instead of AnyObject. Unfortunately, my example was not updated to reflect this.

Posted in Errata, iOS 9 Errata

iOS 9 Hour 3: MyObject, not NSDate

Hour 3, page 92, in the second paragraph of the “Downcasting” section – I state that we need to tell Xcode that an object is an NSDate. This should really be “MyObject.” I had originally written the text using specific

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iOS 9 Hour 3: Incorrect letter in Answers section

In Hour 3, page 122, answer 10, the correct answer is spelled out, but the wrong letter is provided. It should be ‘A’, not ‘B’.

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iOS 8 Hour 3: String Replacement OOPS!

In Hour 3, I use this code to demonstrate how to replace my last name (Ray) with “is awesome!”: var myFullName: String = “John Ray” var myDescription: String = myFullName.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString(myFullName, withString: “is awesome!”) This is incorrect. As written, this would

Posted in Errata, iOS 8 Errata

iOS 8 Hour 5: Change to guide menus

The horizontal and vertical guides are now accessed by choosing Editor, Canvas, Add Guide.

Posted in Errata, iOS 8 Errata

iOS 8 Hour 3: myInstanceMethod reference

In the last paragraph on page 86 (Hour 3), I reference “myInstanceMethod” being defined on line 14. This is incorrect – it is actually defined on line 17.

Posted in Errata, iOS 8 Errata

iOS 8 Hour 1: Welcome App Won’t Run

Having trouble with the Hour 1 Welcome project? Please download the updated tutorial archive – posted May 6th, 2015. A change in the Swift project templates with the latest version of Xcode prevented the application from running.

Posted in Errata, iOS 8 Errata