iOS Apps Development with Swift Programming Training

Curriculum:

Introducing Swift:

• About Swift
• XCode Overview
• Projects and Playgrounds
• Basic Swift Syntax

Data Types:

• Primitives
• Integers, Floats, Booleans, Tuples
• Working with strings
• Constants and Variables
• Literals
• Type Aliases
• Optional

Basic Syntax:

• Math and Logic operations
• Defining Arrays and Collections
• Controlling Program Flow with conditionals and loops
• Enumerations
• Nested Types

Functions and Closures:

• Defining a Function
• Passing parameters
• Returning single and multiple return values
• Parameter Naming
• Variadic, constant, variable and In-Out parameters
• Closures

Classes and Structures:

• Value types explained
• Defining structures
• Assigning structure instances
• Reference Types
• Defining Classes
• Differences between Value and reference types and when to use
• Setting up Initializers and de-initializers

Properties in detail:

• Stored Properties
• Lazy and Computed properties
• Working with Property Observers
• Encapsulation?

Methods:

• Defining Instance and Type Methods
• Method naming
• Mutating Methods
• Subscripts

Using Inheritance and Polymorphism:

• Creating Subclasses
• Overriding Methods, Properties, and Observers
• Initialization of inherited types - Chaining
• Casting and subtype polymorphism

Automatic Reference Counting:

• ARC Under the hood
• Strong and Weak references
• Unowned references
• ARC and Closures

Protocols and Extensions:

• What is a protocol
• Implementing a protocol
• Delegation
• Protocol Inheritance
• Checking conformance
• Extending types with Extensions

Generics:

• Why Generics
• Generic Functions
• Generic Types
• Constraints

Getting Started:

• Registering as an Apple developer
• Apple iOS Developer Program

Environment Setup:

• Interface Builder
• iOS simulator

First iPhone Application:

• Digging deep into the code of the First iOS application

Actions And Outlets:

• Steps Involved

UI Elements:

• How to add UI elements
• Our Focus
• Our Approach
• List of UI elements
• Use of text field
• Important properties of text field are
• Updating properties in xib
• Text field delegates
• Steps in using delegates
• Sample code and steps
• Why Input types?
• Keyboard Input types
• Add a custom method addTextFieldWithDifferentKeyboard
• Update viewDidLoad in ViewController.m as follows
• Output
• Buttons
• Label
• Tool bar
• Status Bar
• Navigation Bar
• Tab bar
• Image View
• Scroll View
• Table View
• Split View
• Text View
• View Transition
• Pickers
• Switches
• Sliders
• Alerts
• Icons

Accelerometer:

• Introduction
• Steps Involved
• Output

Universal Applications:

• Introduction
• Steps Involved
• Output

Camera Management:

• Introduction
• Steps Involved
• Output

Location Handling:

• Introduction
• Steps Involved
• Output

SQLite Database:

• Introduction
• Steps Involved
• Output

Sending Email:

• Introduction
• Steps Involved
• Output

Audio And Video:

• Introduction
• Steps Involved
• Note
• Output

File Handling:

• Methods used in File Handling
• Check if file exists at a path
• Comparing two file contents
• Check if writable, readable and executable
• Move file
• Copy file
• Remove file
• Read file
• Write file
• What next?

Accessing Maps:

• Introduction
• Output

In-App Purchase:

• Introduction
• Steps Involved
• Note
• Output

IAD Integration:

• Introduction
• Steps Involved
• Output

GameKit:

• Introduction
• Steps Involved
• Output

Storyboards:

• Introduction
• Steps Involved
• Output

Auto Layout:

• What we did here?
• Output

Twitter And Facebook:

• Output

Memory Management:

• Problems faced
• Memory Management rules
• Handling memory in ARC
• Using memory management tools
• Steps for analyzing memory allocations

Application Debugging:

• Selecting a Debugger
• How to find coding mistakes?
• Set Breakpoints

Understanding Swift:

• Introduction to Swift
• Introduction to XCode IDE
• Structure of Swift program
• Compiling and building a Hello world
• Swift Playground, Basic Syntax
• Variables and data types
• Structs and Classes.

Getting Started with Swift:

• Working with collections
• Protocols and Extensions, Generics
• Tuple, Functions
• Subscripts, Closures
• Automatic Reference Counting

iOS Development Basics:

• Installing XCode and iOS SDK
• Understanding XCode
• Creating a simple iOS app
• Project templates
• Introduction to pillars of iOS app development-Tools-XCode, iOS Simulator, Instruments
• Language- Swift, Design patterns, frameworks, Design-CorrectUI, AppleHIG, Testing, Provisioning, Signing, Submitting, Using iOS Simulator, MVC pattern in iOS app development

Storyboard Controllers and Layouts:

• The lifecycle of iOS Application
• Understanding Delegation
• iOS View Controllers, Creating UI
• Introduction to Layout and Views
• Designing responsive interfaces with Auto layout
• Create a sample UI
• Walkthrough of controllers
• Debugging iOS application

TableView, CollectionView & Various View Controllers:

• Introduction to Table View
• Creating a basic table view and data source
• Loading data into TableView
• Reusing table view cells, Customizing table views
• UI CollectionView
• UI RefreshControl
• Introduction to multiple-view applications
• Using the navigation controller
• Introduction to a master-detail application
• Creating a tab-bar-driven application
• UI PageViewController

Universal App, Size Classes & Camera:

• UISplitViewController
• Master-detail application
• Using Size Classes for Adaptive Layout
• Using Camera & Gallery to Capture Images

Animation, Location, Maps & Social Sharing:

• Animations- Core Animation, UIKit Dynamics, Facebook Pop Animation, Working with Maps- MKMapItem and MKPlacemark, CLLocationManager, MKMapView, UIActivityViewController to perform Social Sharing

JSON Handling, Network Operation & Image Caching:

• Networking with Alamofire
• SwiftyJSON & HanekeSwift
• Introduction to networking in iOS application, Adding/Managing frameworks using Carthage
• JSON Handling using SwiftJSON
• Performing Networking using Alamofire
• Downloading & Caching images using HanekeSwift

Data Persistence and Storage:

• iOS data persistence
• Using NS User Defaults to store and read information
• Property Lists-Working with Core data, Introduction to Core Data, Creating models with entities, Saving models, Fetching model, Edit and remove models
• Sample application implementing Core data

CloudKit, Parse and Submitting Apps to App Store:

• Implementing CloudKit Storage
• Interact with Parse backend
• Localizing Application
• Submitting an App to Apple App Store.