Ios Development

Course details

Skills & Tools

Bring together Swift, Xcode, the iOS SDK, and GitHub in work with third-party APIs.

Production Standard

Construct a native iPhone or iPad app that loads on a mobile device, stores data locally and connects to larger networks.

The Big Picture

Gain a real understanding of how concepts for iOS applications translate into user-tested, feature-rich prototypes that can ship to the App Store.

Curriculum

Unit 1: App Interfaces

Introduction to Xcode, Apple's integrated development environment

• Label all parts of the Xcode IDE
• Use Xcode to create new projects and build interfaces through storyboard

iOS app control flow

• Describe the control flow of an iOS app
• Demonstrate how to extend an app to multiple screens
• Outline how elements are drawn on screen

Programming Basics with Swift

• Practice connecting interface builder to your Swift code
• Create a custom swift function

Unit 2: Adding Logic To iOS Applications

Logic / Computational Thinking With Swift

• Define computational thinking and translate instructions into basic pseudo code
• Apply conditional statements, variables and loops to a simple application

Object Oriented Programming With Swift

• Describe Object Oriented Programming
• Implement a Model-View-Controller pattern
• Use data structures to store multiple objects in arrays and hashes

Interactions & Gestures

• Outline how elements are drawn on screen
• Use Apple's Swift documentation to apply gestures to create interactive iOS apps

Unit 3: Persisting Data & Networking

iOS files and file I/O

• Explain how the iOS file system works
• Produce applications that store data on the phone

iOS networking and open-source networking frameworks

• Create iOS app network connections
• Describe how your phone creates a connection to the Internet
• Create iOS apps that connect to the Internet and use APIs

Advanced networking

• Integrate an arbitrary objective-C framework into a Swift project
• Explain how to use remote APIs and common Cocoa toolkits (using the Swift/Obj-C bridge)

Unit 4: Compiling and Submitting Your App

Getting ready to publish your App

• Identify and debug issues in your code
• Compile and fully document your app
• Navigate the App Store submission and distribution process