Modern iOS App Development Training Course with Swift & SwiftUI

Who should attend

Existing Software developers looking to develop and deploy commercial-quality Line of Business apps for Apple iPhone and iPad.

Prerequisites

No previous iOS experience is assumed, but delegates should have Object Oriented Programming experience using a language such as C#, C++, Java or PHP. Please get in touch if your team needs a primer on key foundational skills.

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.

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 SwiftUI

• The structure of a SwiftUI app
• Showing views on a single screen
• Declarative programming
• Using Previews
• Lab 2: Trying out SwiftUI basics

Session 3: SwiftUI Views and controls

• Stacks and frames - the idea of ViewBuilders
• Common views and controls
• Spacers and padding
• Applying modifiers to views
• Making SwiftUI interface components of your own - Views, Functions and ViewBuilders
• Lab 3: Setting out screen layout in SwiftUI

Session 4: Functions in Swift

• 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 with minimum effort

Session 6: Structs and Classes in Swift

• 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: Table views

• Building a simple table
• Lazy stacks and Lists
• Adding complex cell structures
• Lab 7: Making a multi-screen table-based app

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 SwiftUI

• Navigating to sub-screens / passing State / modal sheets
• NavigationStack and NavigationSplitScreen
• Tab bars
• Lifetime of an app
• Lab 9: Making a multi-screen table-based app

Session 10: Protocols, closures

• Built in protocols – CustomStringConvertible, Equatable, Comparable, Codable
• Defining and implementing your own protocols
• Using closures
• Shortening closures
• Lab 10: Protocols and Closures

Session 11: Overview of using data in Views

• Using Property Wrappers
• @State
• @Observable
• @Environment, @Binding, @Bindable
• When to use which access method
• Lab 11: Using state in a control

Session 12: Encapsulating controls

• Forms
• Using controls available in SwiftUI
• Binding variables to controls
• Ways of encapsulating a complex control in a reusable view
• Lab 12: Building a form to get user details

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
• Where and how to save data in iOS
• Codable with JSON and PLists
• Using SwiftData
• Lab 16: Extended lab bringing together work on tables, data access and storing data

Session 17: Architecture of a SwiftUI app

• Concepts of MVVM
• MVVM in SwiftUI
• Using Observables locally and in the environment
• 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