About this Course

This iOS Development using Swift training class provides in-depth coverage on how to build iOS 9 native applications for iPhone and iPad using Swift and Apple's Cocoa framework.

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will:

• Understand iOS application development architecture.
• Gain familiarity with Xcode and other Apple development tools.
• Learn proper use of techniques and patterns in Swift.
• Design app UIs using storyboards.
• Explore techniques for custom drawing and animation.
• Build an app that communicates with a web service.
• Use best practices for targeting both iPhone and iPad devices.

Prerequisites

• Substantial previous programming experience using an object- oriented C-based language such as Objective-C, C#, Java, or C++.

Courses that can help you meet these prerequisites:

• Swift for Experienced Objective-C Programmers
• Apple Swift Training

 

Course Outline

Introduction

• iOS Devices
• iOS Operating System
• Programming Languages
• Development Tools
• iOS SDK
• Apple Developer Program

Swift (Part I)

• Introduction
• Constants and Variables
• Type Annotations
• Basic Types
• Optionals
• Functions
• User Defined Types

Unit Testing

• Introduction
• XCTest Framework
• Xcode Service

iOS App Architecture

• Introduction
• Model-View-Controller (MVC)
• View Controllers
• Storyboards
• Outlets
• Actions

Auto Layout

• Introduction
• Constraints
• Insufficient Constraints
• Misplaced Views
• Conflicting Constraints
• Content Hugging and Compression Resistance
• Size Classes

Swift (Part II)

• Collections
• Control Flow
• Inheritance
• Initialization
• Deinitilization
• Protocols
• Error Handling
• Access Control

Storyboards

• Scenes
• Segues
• Moving Data Between Controllers
• Navigation Controller

Table Views

• Introduction
• Data Source and Delegate

Swift (Part III)

• Computed Properties
• Property Observers
• Extensions
• Function Types
• Closures

Networking

• URL Loading System
• NSURLSession
• Asynchronous Downloads
• Strings and Images
• JSON
• XML
• HTTP POST Requests

Local Storage

• User Defaults
• Sandboxing
• Working with Files
• Archiving
• UIDocument
• SQLite
• Core Data

Multitouch, Taps, and Gestures

• Introduction
• Touch Notification Methods
• Gesture Recognizers

Drawing

• Core Graphics and Quartz 2D
• Points, Coordinates, and Pixels
• Graphics Context

Animation

• Core Animation
• UIView Core Animation Blocks
• Animation Curves
• Transformations

App States

• Introduction
• Best Practices
• App States
• App Lifecycle
• Moving to the Background
• Memory Usage
• Background Execution

Notifications

• Local Notifications
• Push Notifications

Core Location Framework

• Basics
• Location Accuracy
• Distance Filter
• Calculating Distances
• Compass
• MapKit Framework
• Localization
• Introduction
• Resources
• Language and Region
• NSLocale
• Text, Dates, and Numbers

Running on a Physical Device

• Introduction
• Project Configuration
• Launching an App

Performance and Power Optimization

• Introduction
• Measuring Performance
• Responsiveness
• Memory Usage
• Networking
• Core Location

Deployment

• Icons and Launch Images
• Archiving
• Distribution
• iTunes Connect

Conclusion