To help the comments section be organised, I have added a forum to DevFright.com. It is found either by clicking the Forums link in the header, or by going direct to https://discourse.devfright.com.

Over the years I have used a number of forums on websites which includes phpBB, vBulletin, Snitz, amongst others. For DevFright I decided to try Discourse.

Depending on the amount of work needed, I might manually move the comments from WordPress to Discourse, and then provide a link at the bottom of each post to the discussion on Discourse related to that post/tutorial.

The main focus in the beginning will be to get new tutorials and posts linked to Discourse so that the conversation can occur over at Discourse.

I hope you like Discourse. I am new to it myself, although have browsed a number of installs of it on various sites both in and out of the iOS dev niche. If you have any comments, please post them in reply to this post.

Although we have been quiet around here for the last few months, I would now like to welcome Martin to the DevFright team. Martin will be joining me in creating comprehensive iOS tutorials. In fact, he has already been posting tutorials for the last few weeks which include Localization in Xcode 6, Swift Action – UIAlertController as well as a few other tutorials about some of the less mentioned features of Xcode and iOS development. His author page which shows all his current posts can be found here.

Martin has been an iOS developer for a few years now and has experience building a number of apps as an indie developer. Those can be found at M45Apps.com for those of you who want to take a look at his quality of work.

I have been working with Martin for a few months now and we have teamed up to work on this website as well as provide app building services.

So you can get a feel of one of Martins apps, he recently launched Reflektere (Norwegian for Reflect I believe) which is available on the app store. We have 10 codes to give away for the first 10 users who comment (indicating that you want a code for a free download). Please use a valid email address to post your comment and we will pass the code to your email address so you can get a free copy of the app.

The Reflektere app uses a number of frameworks to allow it to store data, retrieve data, get location, set timers, pass notifications and eventually, we will add the iBeacon classes to it so you can get messages based on proximity to an iBeacon. All these types of technologies will be explained in detail over the coming months if we haven’t covered the subject already.

It’s been a while since I added tutorials to DevFright, but now that I have some work completed, it is time to get working again and creating some great and helpful tutorials for you. Due to that big announcement a bit ago at WWDC 2014, I have decided that I’ll now focus on providing Swift tutorials rather than continue the focus on Objective-C. I have thought about a mixture of both, but settled on just Swift as this is where Apple is now focussing on the coming months and years and it makes sense to switch over ready for when iOS 8 launches in a few months time.

If you have any specific tutorials you want to see, drop a note in the comments below and I’ll do my best to accommodate.

Now that the iPad is a few years old and people are using them more in day to day work, a common question asked in forums is that of being able to develop apps for the iPad on the iPad. The problem with this is that Apple has no plans that I know of to launch Xcode for the iPad. The reason for this is likely to be related to how tightly integrated the frameworks are with Mac OS X.

To develop for iOS devices while on the go typically requires that you have a MacBook running OS X along with Xcode installed. For some of us, we prefer to carry just an iPad around due to the impressive battery life, instant on and smaller form factor which all make it ideal to throw in a bag.

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