Repository for the "Mobile applications for iOS" course

Course description

The "Mobile applications for iOS" course introduce the fundamental and advanced principles and know-how for creating applications for iPhone and iPad. The course will cover both Objective-C and Swift programming languages in detail, with a bit of C. Some of the topics in the course are: Graphics and Animations, Storyboards and transitions, CoreData and SQLite, Touch and Gestures, building a sustainable and reusable architecture, dependecy injection and more

Topics

Introduction

1. Course introduction

Swift and Objective-C Core

1. Swift and Objective-C fundamentals
   • Data types
   • let vs var
   • Conditionals
   • Switch-case
   • Loops: for, repeat-while
   • Data structures: Arrays, Dictionaries, Sets (both mutable and immutable)
   • Strings
   • Errors and error handling (do-try-catch)
   • Functions
     • Parameters, return types
     • LAMBDAs
2. Classess, structures and enums
   • Enumerations
   • Creating classes
   • Class initializers
   • Methods, properties (getters, setters)
3. Class Inheritance
   • Inheriting classes
   • Overriding parent methods/properties
   • Polymorphism
4. Protocols, extensions
   • Creating protocols
   • Conforming to protocols
   • Using extensions
   • Pros from extensions
5. Memory Management
   • Reference counting overview
   • Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) in swift
   • strong and weak references
6. Asynchronous operations in iOS
   • delegation pattern
   • Using LAMBDAs
   • Updating the UI from async operation (Dispatch Queues)
7. Objective-C fast track
   • Data-types
   • Loops
   • Data structures
   • Functions
   • Classes, class inheritance, protocols, extensions
8. Workshop

iOS Basics

1. Introduction to iOS Development
   • Cocoa Touch overview
   • Objective-C and
2. 101 iOS Application
   • ViewControllers
   • AppDelegate
3. Storyboards and segues
   • Creating segues and unwinding segues
   • Transfering data between ViewControllers
4. Workshop

UI

1. Views and controls
   • Built-in views (UILabel, UIButton, etc...)
   • IBOutlets and IBActions
   • Creating custom views
2. Navigation controller and navigation between ViewControllers
   • Segues recap
   • Navigation controllers (regular, tabs, etc...)
   • show, present view controllers
3. Tabs, drawers, etc...
   • Creating tabs and drawers
4. Notifications
   • Creating user notifications
5. Gestures and Touch
   • Types of gestures (tap, pinch, rotation, etc...)
   • Adding gesture recognizers
6. Workshop

Data

1. Creating HTTP requests in iOS application
   • HTTP recap
   • Creating HTTP requests with URLSesssion
     • GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
   • Building an HTTP layer
     • Class for abstraction of HTTP requests
2. SQLite in iOS application
   • Adding SQLite database into an iOS application
   • Querying the database with native SQL queries
   • Querying the database with an ORM
3. CoreData in iOS application
   • What is CoreData?
   • Using CoreData
4. Workshop

Architectural

1. Application Lifecycle
   • Handling the application state
   • Save app state
   • Cleanup on app close
2. Model-View-Controller in iOS
   • What is MVC?
   • Implementing MVC in iOS applications
   • Separating the application in layers
     • Data layer, service layer, controllers, views
3. Dependecy injection
   • Dependency injection recap
   • Implementing Dependency injection in iOS apps
4. Unit testing
   • Unit testing recap
   • Creating unit tests for each layer of the application
5. Workshop

Graphics & Animations

1. CoreGraphics
   • Drawing in iOS
   • Using the Canvas
   • Implementing simple game
2. Animations in iOS application
   • Using CoreAnimation
   • Using UIView.animate()
3. Workshop

Device APIs

1. Camera
2. Geolocation
3. Phonebook
4. Accelerometer
5. Workshop