Course Outline
Day 1:
- OOPS concepts
- Software fundamentals
- Organized vs. unorganized spaces
- The importance of software
- The value of iOS
- Apple history
- iOS history
- Apple’s unique selling proposition
- What Apple is known for
- User Experience vs. User Interface
- Understanding IDEs
- Xcode overview
- Xcode installation
- Transition from Objective-C to Swift
- Key features of Swift
- Swift basics
- Variables
- Constants
- Hello World in Swift
- Creating labels via code
- ImageView
- ImageView animations
- NSTimer
- Responder Chain - touchBegan, touchMoved, etc.
- UIApplication main delegate
- Application lifecycle
- View lifecycle
- Any type
- Optionals
- Access control: internal, public, private
- init
- deinit
- Playgrounds
Application Exercise: Dots Game: https://apps.apple.com/app/the-dots-free/id850315430
Day 2:
- UIView animations
- Extensions
- UITableView
- Custom cells in UITableView
- Delegate and data source methods
- UITableView headers, footers, and height
- Overview of UICollectionView
- Dequeueing in UITableView
- Maps
- Optionals
- didSet
- willSet
- Guard statements
- 2x and 3x resolution concepts
- Navigating between views
- UINavigationController
- Presenting view controllers
- Storyboards
- Xibs
- Constraints
- Size classes
- Protocols - required and optional
- Memory management
Application Exercise: Notes app: Adding, deleting, and updating notes
Day 3:
- Gestures
- Closures
- Groups and folders
- Gesture recognizers
- XML Parsing
- NSJSONSerialization
- Converting Data to JSON
- FileManager
- Tuples
- Enumerations (Enum)
- For-in loops
- While loops
- Web services
- URLSession
- URLRequest
- Why Apple’s ecosystem is superior
- Printable - description
- Hashable
- UIAlertView
- UIActivityIndicatorView
Application Exercise: Fetching data from a server via an open API app, creating a table view, populating data, and displaying details.
Day 4:
- Lazy loading of images
- Lazy properties
- NSOperationQueue
- GCD (Grand Central Dispatch)
- Directory concepts and app security (NSSearchDomain)
- UITabBarController
- Localization
- Keychain
- UserDefaults
- Property Lists (PLists)
- FileManager
- SQLite
- Extensions
- Social media integration: Creating shareable content
- UITextField
- UITextView
- UISegmentedControl
- UISlider
- UISwitch
- UIProgressBar
- UIPageControl
- UIStepper
- UIScrollView
- UIPickerView
- UIActionSheet
- UIWebView
- SearchBar
- New targets: Apple Watch, Extensions, Keyboard, Today Widget, etc.
- Notifications in iOS
- Incorporating third-party libraries
- Core Data
- Deployment and distribution
- Running apps on real devices
Application Exercise: Fetching data from a server via an open API app, creating a table view, populating data, displaying details, adding a search bar, implementing search functionality, and using Core Data.
Day 5:
- Push notifications - Silent and Push
- Localization
- Overview of Objective-C
- Properties
- Categories
- Function syntax
- .h and .m files
- Property attributes: readWrite and readOnly
- Property attributes: strong, weak, and copy
- Property attributes: atomic and non-atomic
- Uploading apps to the App Store
Application Exercise: Developing an app based on your own idea
Requirements
Participants must have prior experience with at least one programming language.
Testimonials (1)
He's an experienced trainer with a real life experience in the topic he was teaching. That led the course to cover the most important topics which interests any developer working in the field, and small details would be easily overseen if he was not working in this platform. Moreover, he was giving the course using the latest versions of is and Swift (10 \ 3) and that is a huge advantage to be adapting such new technology in short time.