iOS Application Development

Course Objectives
The objective of this program is to give attendees a course in iPhone Programming. It will introduce the Framework, Programming languages and other relevant APIs to the audience and will help them understand the concepts and techniques behind the iPhone Application development. It is expected that after the course the attendee will be able to work independently on iPhone application development and will be able to migrate from conventional technologies to Cocoa and iPhone related technologies effectively.

Target Audience
Developers who are already working on other platforms and want to develop for iPhone and iPad.

Prerequisites

1. Understanding of Object Oriented Programming.

2. Any experience in Mobile development will be and added advantage.

Course Outline

Day 1

iOS Introduction

IOS architecture

Xcode

Swift fundimentals

Object Oriented Programming

Programming languages

Compilers

Software development

Classes

Objects

Atributes

Methods

Abstraction

Encapsulation

Inheritance

Polymorphism
Swift core syntax

Types

Variables

Constants

Printing to console

String interpolation

Type conversion

if statements

Switch statements

Loops

Functions

IOS App development core skills

Resources

Creating projects

The Xcode environment

MVC

Outlets

Actions

First responder

Delegation

Views

Textfields

Labels

Buttons

Keyboards

Day 2

Complex types

Arrays

Sets

Dictionaries

Tuples

Enumerations

Closures

Classes

Access levels

Structs

Value vs reference types

Extensions

Protocols

Optionals

Typecasting

References

Retain cycles

Basic IOS UI

Storyboards

Views

Constraints

Object Library

Date Pickers

Picker views

Alert Views

Other UI elements

HIG

Day 3

Multiple View Applications

Table views

Tab bar controllers

Navigation controllers

Segues

Testing

Break points

Troubleshooting

Application architecture

App delegate

info.plist

UIApplication object

Lunch screen

UIWindow

Background mode

View hierarchy

Day 4

iOS Enterprise Applications

Web services

RESTfull services

JSON services

iOS integration with JSON

Cocoa pods

Third party libraries

Fetching data from a database

Posting data to a database

Error handling

Day 5

Making an IOS Application
Designing and implementing an Application, using all the concepts we learned.