Be the first to develop a Widget for iOS8

Course details

Develop something new is the only way to raise AppStore ranking

without invest tons of dollars in advertising.

Take a look at "We Step" on AppStore: this is an example of what you can create starting from this course.

What's the course about and how is it structured?

In this course we will develop together a fitness Widget for iOS 8 with a step by step approach.

We explain what you need in order to release a Widget : not only the Widget but also the Containing App.

The course covers :

• explanation of interactions among Widget, Containing App and Host Application
• development of the Containing App
• development of the Widget
• management of App identifiers and provisiong profiles created by Xcode
• management and development of shared resources (App groups) between the Containing App and the Widget
• management and development of shared code (embedded framework) between the Containing App and the widget
• development of functions to retrieve informations from Core Motion Framework
• development of code for persisting data into the device
• test and debug of the Containing App and the Widget
• release the Containing App and the Widget on the Apple Store

Materials

The course consists of :

• video lectures
• a complete xCode 6 project with all code shown during lectures (see download in lecture1)
• quizzes to summarize and re-enforce the key points covered

This course can be completed in a couple of hours.

Why to follow this course?

I think that it's very difficult for a developer to be noticed on the AppStore with more than 1 million of Apps BUT with ios 8 Apple has given to developers a real opportunity to customize devices.

Apple has introduced new amazing features like extensions.

There are different types of extensions:

• shared extensions for posting to a website
• action extensions for manipulating content within the context of an other App
• custom keyboards to allow users to have custom keyboards in all Apps
• photo editing extensions for manipulating photo or video within the Photo App
• storage provider extensions for choosing a document from documents the current App can access
• Widgets : we will focus on this type of extension. A Widget lets you extend functionality of your App and make it available directly from Notification Center without unlocking the device.

I think that developing a Widget you will have the chance to be on millions of devices. So don't miss this unrepeatable opportunity.

Who can follow this course ?

Anyone with basic knowledge of programming can follow this course.