Building iOS Apps with Swift and UIKit Training Course

Who should attend

iOS developers who are looking to benefit from the latest User Interface development enhancements of SwiftUI.

Prerequisites

Live, instructor-led online and on-site training

We appreciate that you need flexibility to fit in with new working situations - whether you're an individual, part of a distributed team, or simply have projects and deadlines to meet. 

Our remote training can take place online in a virtual classroom, with content split into modules to accommodate your scheduling challenges and meet your learning goals. Get in touch today to find out how we can help design a cost-effective, flexible training solution.

As soon as it's safe, we'll return to also offering the on-site custom training courses and programmes upon which we've built our reputation.

Session 1: Introduction to Swift

• Trainer and Delegate Introductions / Intro to course
• Foundations of Swift
• XCode Playgrounds
• Basics of the language: Types, Operators, Conditionals, Iterators, Strings, Arrays, Dictionaries
• Lab 1: Trying out the language basics

Session 2: Introduction to using Xcode

• Making first app / toolkit features
• MVC and linking code to Storyboards
• Using the documentation
• Introduction to UIKit
• Lab 2: Building and running single screen apps on simulator and device

Session 3: UIKit: Views and controls

• Attributes of common views
• Adding controls to your app
• Adding more views
• Lab 3: Building apps with more views and controls

Session 4: Functions

• Function parameters and results
• Argument labels
• Default values
• Lab 4: Writing functions

Session 5: Prototyping an interface design

• Deciding what goes into the app
• Making the screens for a multi-screen app and joining them
• Trying out the app on potential users
• Taking Apple design considerations and HCI guidelines into account
• Lab 5: Building an app prototype without code

Session 6: Structs and Classes

• Creating structs and initialising them
• Properties and access methods and using them
• Classes - Initializers, methods and properties
• When to use classes and structs
• Lab 6: Creating and using Structs and Classes

Session 7: Working with different screen sizes

• Autolayout
• Stack layout
• Lab 7: Fitting many items on different size screens
• Further exercises on Autolayout

Session 8: Dictionaries/Optionals / Guard / Scope

• Dictionaries/why we need optionals
• How to use them correctly
• Making code tidy with Guard
• Understanding scope of variables
• Lab 8: Optionals and Guard

Session 9: Advanced navigation in UIKit

• Segues
• Navigation
• Tab bars
• Lifetime of an app
• Lab 9: Making complex apps

Session 10: Making a multi-screen app

• Lab 10: Bringing what we learned so far together

Session 11: Building dynamic tables

• Basic tables
• Linking to child screens
• Passing child data
• Customising table cells
• Linking to multiple child screens
• Lab 11: Building tables

Session 12: Protocols, closures

• Built in protocols – CustomStringConvertible, Equatable, Comparable, Codable
• Defining and implementing your own protocols
• Using closures
• Shortening closures
• Lab 12: Protocols and Closures

Session 13: Location facilities

• Setting up location services
• Tracking movement
• Annotating maps
• Lab 13: Adding Maps to an app

Session 14: Interacting with taps and the accelerometer

• Implementing taps and swipes
• Using the accelerometer
• Lab 14: Example apps using taps, swipes and the accelerometer

Session 15: Animations

• How animations are used in iOS
• Delighting users with animations
• Types of animation that are possible
• Lab 15: Building animations

Session 16: Data storage with Codable

• Application sandbox
• Codable with JSON and PLists
• Where and how to save data in iOS
• SQLite for complex data
• Lab 16: Extended lab bringing together work on tables, data access and storing data

Session 17: Web browsing, web services

• Integrating web browsing into your app
• Calling web services and receiving data asynchronously
• Concurrency and Grand Central Dispatch
• Processing data and updating screens
• Lab 17: Reading and processing data from a web service

Session 18: Unit Testing

• Identifying what to unit test
• Setting up tests
• Running tests in XCTest
• Lab 18: Writing Unit Tests for iOS Apps

Session 19: Delivering to the App Store

• Registering an app
• Getting ready to make an app live
• Choices for how to deliver an app
• App analytics

Session 20: Bringing it all together in a complex app

• Final Case Study