Hacking with macOS: AppKit Edition

Preface

Get started coding in Swift by making an image viewer app and learning key concepts.

Practice your NSTableView skills while learning about random numbers and text input.

Return to project 1 and add a feature to let users share their selected picture.

Power up your web browsing experience by viewing more than one site at a time.

Learn to drop map pins and measure distance in this MKMapView game.

Make your apps adapt intelligently to any size screen – it's easier than you think!

Create watermarked videos using NSCollectionView with drag and drop.

Build a picture-matching game using grid view and… particle effects?

Learn how to create background threads, delay work, and even parallelize complex operations.

Display your local weather in the macOS status bar using JSON and GCD.

Create a physics-based bubble popping game with timers, sound effects, and more.

Master Core Animation by learning a variety of ways to bring your UI to life.

Get to grips with Core Graphics and NSDocument by building a screenshot-editing app.

Build a fast-paced shooting game with animations, new levels, and a custom mouse cursor.

Learn to let your apps forgive and forget user mistakes with NSUndoManager.

Track the books you've read while writing any hardly any code. No, really.

Build a ball-matching game with SpriteKit, while learning about shape nodes and particle emitters.

Practice your bindings skill by converting temperatures with KVC and KVO.