iOS 9 App Development using Swift

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1. Your First App – “Prepare for Takeoff”

Creating a new Project in Xcode
Designing an App interface using Interface Builder
Working with the Objects Library and the Attributes Inspector
Designing an App interfae using Interface Builder
Running and previewing the App using the iOS Simulator

2. Adding Interactivity

Creating a new Project in Xcode
Designing an App interface using Interface Builder
Working with the Objects Library and the Attributes Inspector
Designing an App interface using Interface Builder
Running and previewing the App using the iOS Simulator

3. Enabling User Input

Working with Textfields tread in user inputted data
The iOS Keyboard and special alternate keyboard layouts
Alternate methods for dismissing the Keyboard
Using the Connections Inspector
More Control-Flow

4. Working with Image Assets & App Icons

Creating a Custom Icon for your App
Creating a Custom Splash Image for your App
Managing Image Assets: Regular & Retina
Inspector

5. Writing Classes in Swift

Declaring a Swift class in a separate file
Declaring Stored and Computed Properties
Creating Instance Methods
Control Flow with the Switch Statement

6. Using the PickerView

Single Component Pickers
Multi-Component Pickers
Working with the Date Picker and the NSDate class

7. Creating Multiview Applications

Using Navigation Controllers
Working with Segues
Passing Data between View Controllers
Creating Bar-Tab Application

8. Using TableViews

Creating regular and Multi-Sectioned TableViews
Drill-Down menus
Master-Detail scheme
Creating custom TableView Cells

9. Using Collection Views

Modifying Grid Layouts
Creating Custom CollectionView Cells
Enabling Cell-Tap Navigation tDetail Screens

10. Creating Views from Code

Initializing Objects with Code
Views, subviews, the Superview
The Subviews auto-array and View Index
Wiring up Views tIBActions using code

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11. Detecting and Handling Gestures

Swipe Gesture
Tap Gesture
Pinch Gesture
Pan Gesture
Rotation Gesture
Implementing Affine Transformations

12. Data Persistence

Working with NSFileManager and the iOS File Directory
Saving Property Lists
Using Databases with the sqlite Library
Working with Core Data

13. Maps, Core Location and Location Services

Displaying User Location on Map
Creating Annotations & Pins
Switching Map Types
The MKMapViewDelegate Protocol

14. Web Services

Establishing an NSURL connection
Making an NSURLConnection Request
Reading returned XML & JSON data
Parsing incoming XML with NSXMLParser
Parsing incoming JSON Data

15. Integrating your App with Social Media

Posting tFacebook and Twitter from within your App
Attaching Photos and URL’s ta Post

16. Universal Apps – Auto-Layouts, Handling Device Rotations, and Size Classes

Working with Auto-Layouts
Implementing Size Classes
Handling Aspect RatiConstraints

17. Application Life Cycle & View States/Life Cycle

Understanding Application States
Working with a ViewController’s Life-Cycle
Creating Local Notifications

18. Unit Testing

Using the XCTest Framework
Creating unique tests for specific funtionalities
Making Test Assertions
Creating performance-measurement tests

19. Submitting tthe App Store

The iOS Developer’s Center
Creating App Certificates, Identifiers and Profiles
Archiving the Project
Ad-Hoc and App-Store Distribution