raywenderlich.com Weekly - Issue 105

Issue 105 - February 21, 2017 Note from Ray I meant to send this out as usual on Tuesday but forgot. Oh well - better late than never! :P iOS [Updated Course: Custom Controls in iOS]( by Jessy and Catie Catterwaul Custom controls can help users better interact with your app, and can help your app stand out from the crowd. In this course for intermediate to advanced iOS developers, you’ll learn how to create your own! Specifically, you’ll create a “deluxe button”, a concentric ring control like in the Apple Watch activity app, and a custom sketch pad. Enjoy! [Sponsor raywenderlich.com Weekly and reach 88,150 subscribers!]( Swift [Server Side Swift with Vapor: Authentication with Turnstile]( by Ray Wenderlich Turnstile is a security framework for Server Side Swift. The idea is you can use Turnstile to restrict certain sections of your web app based on whether the user is authenticated, and what they have access to. In this screencast, I'll show you how you can use Turnstile in a Server Side Swift with Vapor app to add username/password authentication over HTTPs. [Working with JSON in Swift]( by Luke Parham If you're writing any code that deals with a web service, chances are you have to deal with JSON data. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to parse JSON data in Swift - the raw/native way, plus an even easier way thanks to a popular Swift framework called Gloss. Games [Unity First Person Shooter Tutorial]( by Anthony Uccello One of the most popular types of games is first-person shooter games. Creating a first-person shooter can be a lot of work. However, you don't have to start from scratch, thanks to the popular Ultimate First Person Shooter plugin for Unity. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a simple first-person shooter game in Unity, including moving the player, shooting, adding bullet holes, and even a sniper rifle! [How To Make a Game Like Cut the Rope]( by Kevin Colligan Cut The Rope is a popular physics-driven game where players feed a little monster by cutting ropes which suspend candies. In this tutorial, you'll build a similar game using the physics engine of SpriteKit, Apple’s 2D game framework. [Metal Tutorial with Swift 3 Part 1: Getting Started]( by Andrew Kharchyshyn Metal is Apple's API for GPU-accelerated 3D graphics. In this tutorial, you’ll get some hands-on experience using Metal and Swift 3 to create a bare-bones app: drawing a simple triangle. In the process, you’ll learn about some of the most important classes in Metal, such as devices, command queues, and more. Where To Go From Here? [The raywenderlich.com Bookshelf]( Now that the print versions of our books have arrived, I thought you might enjoy seeing what they look like on a bookshelf - combined with our entire historical archive! [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Website]( This email is being sent to you because you subscribed on our website. [Unsubscribe]( | Razeware LLC, 1882 Hawksbill Rd McGaheysville, VA 22840 Copyright © 2017 Razeware LLC, All rights reserved.