raywenderlich.com Weekly - Issue 185

185. Tutorials on Using Universal Links in iOS, Getting Started with Text Kit, Beginning Collection Views, Threading with HandlerThread in Android, the iOS 12 Launch Party and more!  Issue 185 - Sep 18, 2018 iOS [Beginning Collection Views]( by Brian Moakley In this course for [raywenderlich.com subscribers](, you'll learn about using collection views in iOS. You'll start with the basics, such as setting up a collection view in Interface Builder, and then move right through to some more advanced topics, like creating and manipulating custom cells and layouts. [Text Kit Tutorial: Getting Started]( by Bill Morefield Text Kit is Apple's framework for working with text and text attributes. In this tutorial, you’ll explore the various features of Text Kit as you create a simple note-taking app for the iPhone that features on-the-fly text styling, re-flowing text and dynamic-text resizing. [Universal Links: Make the Connection]( by Owen L Brown In this tutorial, you'll learn how to connect your iOS app with your website using Universal Links, so users can tap a link and go directly to the corresponding content in your app. [Sponsor raywenderlich.com Weekly and reach over 60,000 subscribers!](  Android [Text Recognition with ML Kit]( by Joe Howard In this screencast for [raywenderlich.com subscribers](, you'll see how to use the ML Kit library from Google to recognize text in images, both on-device and in the cloud. [Threading With HandlerThread in Android]( by Amanjeet Singh Learn how to use HandlerThread to receive messages from a Runnable in an Activity and pass them back to a UI handler to update the UI.  Gaming [Unity 2017 2D Techniques: Build a 2D Pinball Game]( by Arai Unity’s 2D techniques are cool. But are they as fun as playing an old-school pinball game? Find out in this tutorial, where you'll learn how to make your own 2D pinball game in Unity!  Books [Introducing the iOS 12 Launch Party!]( by Chris Belanger It’s our eighth annual celebration of all that’s new with iOS! This year we’ve got new books on machine learning, architecture, push notifications, and tons more content updated for iOS 12. [Swift Apprentice Updated for Swift 4.2]( by Chris Belanger We're happy to announce the release of the 3rd edition of the Swit Apprentice, our book for beginners to the Swift programming language! This book is now fully up-to-date for Swift 4.2, and is a free update for existing digital version customers. Enjoy! [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Website]( To make sure you keep getting these emails, please add ray@raywenderlich.com to your address book or whitelist us. Want out of the loop? [Unsubscribe](. Our postal address: 1882 Hawksbill Road | McGaheysville VA 22840