Mastering iOS Apps Development Training

Curriculum:

Getting Started

• Registering as an Apple developer
• Apple iOS Developer Program

Environment Setup

• Interface Builder
• iOS simulator

Objective C

• Interface and Implementation
• Object Creation
• Methods
• Important data types in Objective C
• Printing logs
• Control Structures
• Properties
• Categories
• Arrays
• Dictionary

First IPhone Application

• Digging deep into the code of the First iOS application

Actions And Outlets

• Steps Involved

Delegates

• Example for Delegate
• Steps in creating a delegate

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 add Text Field With Different Keyboard
• Update view Did Load in View Controller.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

Table View, Collection View & Various View Controllers

• Introduction to Table View
• Creating a basic table view and data source
• Loading data into Table View
• Reusing table view cells, Customizing table views
• UI Collection View
• UI Refresh Control
• Introduction to multiple-view applications
• Using a navigation controller
• Introduction to a master-detail application
• Creating a tab-bar-driven application
• UI Page View Controller

Universal App, Size Classes & Camera

• UI Split View Controller
• Master-detail application
• Using Size Classes for Adaptive Layout
• Using Camera & Gallery to Capture Images

Animation, Location, Maps & Social Sharing

• Animations- Core Animation, UI Kit Dynamics, Facebook Pop Animation, Working with Maps- MK Map Item and MK Placemark, CL Location Manager, MK Map View, UI Activity View Controller 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 Haneke Swift

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

Cloud Kit, Parse and Submitting Apps to App Store

• Implementing Cloud Kit Storage
• Interact with Parse back end
• Localizing Application
• Submitting an App to Apple App Store.