iOS App Development Training Course with Swift

Who should attend

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

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.

iOS Overview

• Introduction to iOS
• Making great iOS apps

Xcode Overview

• Introducing the Xcode IDE
• Swift Playgrounds
• Project Navigator
• Building an app prototype without coding
• The architecture of an iOS app

What’s different about Swift?

• Benefits of using Swift
• How Swift does structs and classes
• Using Optionals and Guard
• Protocols
• Extensions
• Closures

Defining the User Interface

• Getting started with Views
• View Hierarchy
• Linking code and programming for an app

Storyboards and Autolayout

• Built-in Templates
• Storyboards and Screen Sizes
• Enabling Auto-Layout
• Customising Views and Constraints
• Stack views
• Targetting iPhone / iPad

Implementing UI Controls

• Buttons
• Labels
• Pickers
• Sliders
• Text fields and text views
• Image views
• Alerts and messages
• Web views
• And more!

Table Controllers

• How iOS uses tables
• Table views and the data model
• Index paths
• Delegates
• Customised table cells

Making a multi-screen app

• Segues and Navigation Controllers
• Passing information between screens
• The view controller lifecycle
• Tab Bar Controllers

Touch UI and Gesture Recognition

• Cocoa Touch Layer
• Event Handling
• Gesture Recognizers
• Handling multi-touch
• Discrete and Continuous Gestures

Connecting to external services on the Web

• Web Services
• Connection considerations (3rd party)
• Asynchronous handling of data
• Managing JSON data
• Concurrency on iOS

Storing and Accessing Data Locally and Remotely

• Types of local Storage
• Using Codable
• Using SQLite
• Accessing Cloud storage

Animation – delighting your users

• Why animate?
• Built-in animations
• What else can you animate?
• When might you animate?

Overview of App Store Provisioning

• Publishing your App
• Provisioning Profiles
• Archiving and Validating your App
• Submitting your app to the App Store