Course Outline
Foundational Programming Concepts
- Object-Oriented Programming (OOPS) principles
- Definition and purpose of software
- Concepts of organized versus unorganized programming structures
- The importance of software
The Apple Ecosystem and iOS
- Why choose iOS?
- History of Apple
- Evolution of iOS
- Apple’s Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
- What Apple is renowned for
- User Experience (UX) versus User Interface (UI)
Development Environment Setup
- Hardware and software requirements
- Xcode and the iOS Software Development Kit (SDK)
- Apple Developer Program registration
- Common reasons for application rejection
- Human Interface Guidelines
Creating iOS Projects in Xcode
- Xcode overview
- Creating an iOS project
- Testing on simulators and real devices
Swift Fundamentals
- Transition from Objective-C to Swift
- Key features and advantages of Swift
- Variables
- Constants
- Your first 'Hello World' in Swift
- Creating a UILabel programmatically
Image Animation and Loading
- Using UIImageView
- Basic animations for UIView and UIImageView
- Utilizing Playgrounds
- Lazy loading of images
- Lazy properties
Swift Classes and Interface Builder
- Creating Swift classes
- Memory management techniques
- Understanding strong and weak references
- Constructors and destructors in Swift
- Protocols, Hashable, and Printable
- Inheritance
- Creating Storyboards
- Implementing View Controllers
- Using Playgrounds
Application Lifecycle and Event Handling
- View lifecycle
- Application lifecycle
- Responder chain – touchBegan, touchMoved, and other touch methods
- NSTimer
Adaptive Layout Design
- Storyboards versus XIB files
- Support for multiple device sizes
- Icon sizing and device orientation
- Building user interfaces programmatically
- Outlets and Actions
- Protocols: Required versus optional
- Memory management strategies
Notifications and Localization
- Push Notifications: Silent and Active
- Localization techniques
Overview of Objective-C
- Properties
- Categories
- Function syntax
- Property attributes: readWrite and readOnly
Social Media Integration in iOS
- Facebook integration
- Twitter integration
- Email integration
- Integrating third-party applications
iOS UI Components
- UITextField
- UITextView
- UISegmentedControl
- UISlider
- UISwitch
- UIProgressBar
- UIPageControl
- UIStepper
- UIScrollView
- UIPickerView
- UIActionSheet
- UIWebView
- SearchBar
Additional Core Components in iOS
- Groups and folders
- Closures
- Tuples
- URL Session
- URLRequest
- UIAlertView
- UIActivityIndicatorView
- Access control: internal, public, private
- Guard statements
- Optionals
Threading in iOS
- Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)
- NSOperationQueue
- Main Thread versus Background Threads
User Interaction
- Buttons and event handlers
- Pan gesture recognition
- Tap gesture recognition
- Customizing Table Views
- Introduction to Collection Views
Multi-Screen Applications
- Table-based navigation
- Tabbed application structures
- Navigation Controllers
- Presenting controllers with various presentation and push animations
Location Services
- Position and altitude tracking
- Compass direction
Device Access and Data Storage
- File storage
- Accessing the Music Library
- CoreData and SQLite in iOS
- Keychain storage
- User Defaults
- PLists
- NSSearchPathDirectory
- Directory concepts and app security within NSSearchPathDirectory
Speech Framework
- Speech-to-text capabilities
- Text-to-speech functionality
Multipeer Connectivity Framework
- Transmitting data between devices
- Connecting multiple devices
Networking
- Network access
- JSON serialization and deserialization
- RESTful web services
- Basics of XML parsing
Uploading Your App to the App Store
- Using iTunes Connect
- Developer Portal – Provisioning profiles
- Deployment and distribution
- Running apps on real devices
- Submitting your app to the App Store
Sample Applications
- Dots Game: https://itunes.apple.com/app/the-dots-free/id850315430
- Notes App
- Contacts App
- Retrieving data from a server via an open API to populate a table view, displaying details, implementing a search bar, and utilizing Core Data for offline storage
- Developing an application based on your own concept
Requirements
Previous experience with at least one programming language is required.
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.
