iOS App Development Course

Course Curriculum

Start Up

• Understanding the Development Environment
• Installing the Tools
•  Components of the SDK
•  Understanding the Xcode and IB interface
• Understanding the Playground
• Understanding the advantages and Limitations of Simulator

Swift Programming Language(Swift Basics)

• The language basics
• Constants and Variables
• Type Annotations
• Data Types
• Type-Safety and Inference
• Conversions
• Tuples
• Optional

Basic Operators Strings and Characters Collection Types

• Arrays
• Dictionaries
• Assignment and Copy behavior
• Mutation in Collections

Control Flow

• Conditional Statements
• Iteration Statements
• Value bindings
• Control Transfer

Functions

• Defining Functions
• Function Parameters
• Functions with Multiple Return values
• External Parameters
• In-Out Parameters
• Function Types
• Function Types are Parameters
• Nested Functions

Closures

• Closure Expressions
• Closure Context
• Trailing Closures
• Closures as Reference types

Swift – OOPS Concepts Classes and Structures

• Defining class and structure instances
• Properties
• Stored Properties
• Computer Properties
• Property Observers
• Type Properties
• Initializers

Methods

1. Type Methods
2. Instance Methods
3. Subscripts

• Inheritance
• Defining Base Class
• Subclassing
• Overriding
• Preventing Overrides

Initialization

1. Designated Initializer
2. Custom Initialization
3. Default Initialization
4. Initializer Chaining and Safety

• DE initialization

Automatic Reference Counting

1. How ARC Works
2. Strong Reference Cycles
3. Resolving Strong Reference Cycles
4. Reference Cycles for Closures
5. Resolving Strong Reference Cycles for Closures

• Optional Chaining

Type Casting

1. Class Hierarchy for Type Casting
2. Type Checking
3. Down Casting
4. Object Casting

Extensions

1. Types
2. Methods
3. Initializers
4. Subscripts
5. Nested Types

Protocols

1. Property Requirements
2. Method requirements
3. Mutating Requirements
4. Protocols as Types
5. Delegation
6. Protocol Conformation with Extension
7. Protocol Adaption
8. Collections of Protocol
9. Protocol Inheritance
10. Optional Protocols

Generics

1. Why use Generics
2. Functions
3. Type parameters
4. Types
5. Constraints
6. Associated Types
7. Where Clauses

User Interface UI basic

• Using iPhone Project Templates
• The Units of Measurement
• The iOS Hello World Boilerplate Dissection
• Understanding the App Startup process
• The iOS Architecture
• Retina v/s non-Retina UI considerations
• The Developer License
• Understanding Views and Windows
• Creating User Interface
• Basic GUI Components
• UITextField, UISlider, UISegementControl, UIStepper, UIButton etc
• Actions, Outlets and Events
• Handling Basic Interactions
• The Human Interface Guidelines
• Understanding Delegation
• Exercise – Create a Settings Controller that allows to Switch Font Sizes, Change RGB colour background, Allow Text Events

Understanding UITableView

• Understanding UINavigationController
• Creating a Simple Table View
• Reusing TableViewCells
• Customizing a Table View
• Grouping Data in Tables
• Selecting and Navigation in Table Views

Model Views

• Alerting a User
• Customization Alert Views
• Capturing User response
• TextField Alerts and Keyboard Styles
• Implementing Action Sheets

UICollectionView

• Using a UI Collection View
• Data Source and Delegates
• Custom UI Collection View Cells
• Reusing Collection Cells

Multi-View Applications

• Container and Content Views
• Introduction to Multi-View Applications
• The MVC Architecture. Why and How to use MVC.
• Sub classing Controllers
• Creating a Utility Application and Creating Protocols
• Implementing Different Animation for View Transitions

Basic Data Handling

• Understanding the Controller States in Life Cycle
• Understanding Application Document Structure
• Understanding the Product Folder Structure
• The Application Default Folders and File Manager
• Capturing Files form Bundles
• Storing and retrieving data from Files
• Storing and Retrieving data from Plists

The Application Project Structure

• Creating and Accessing your own Bundles
• A Start Up Project using Different Controllers.
• Creating a Multi-View Application from Scratch
• Creating Scenes and Segues
• Adding Controllers
• Passing Data Across Scenes
• Understanding Master-detail Application
• Universal Applications