Swift – iOS pradedančių studijos

Testing remains one of the weaker areas of iOS dvelopment. Here the concept of unit testing and XCTest framework are introduced.

This section show some tips and tricks how to use help in XCode, what additional resources Apple and third parties provide. It also show how to add documentation to your own code with markup.

This section teaches about application lifecycle and events.

This section introduces another central piece of the iOS—UIViewController. It teaches about its role, relationship with its view. It also digs a bit deeper into architecture of the app and tells about alternatives to Apple’s MVC.

UIView is a cornerstone of iOS UI. This section familiarises students with basic properties and gemotery of UIView and working with Interface Builder

Hardly any application can avoid outputting text to the UI. This section introduces the main UIKit elements used for that purpose.

This section introduces common standard UIKit controls available on iOS.

Here we dig deeper into UIView. Section also teaches how to work with images and intricacies of view layers.

Animation is a very important part of UI and UX. It draws user’s attention, informs about what’s happening in the app, and makes the application more fun to use. This section introduces the basic concepts and most common ways to work with animations.

Sometimes standard controls are just not enough. This section teaches how to handle touches when you need just a bit extra.

Despite being introduced some six years ago Auto layout remains the topic many, even seasoned, iOS developers struggle with. On the other hand, with more and more new devices joining iOS family auto layout is the crucial part of making work with UI manageable. This section spends a lot of time making sure students get the core concepts right and are able to work with layouts either in Interface Builder or in code.

This section teaches how to deal with issues specific to bigger screens. It also teaches how to work with iPad multitasking and basics of drag and drop.

After learning how to work with a single ViewController students now learn how ViewControllers can be combined. Another very common and important classes as UINavigation controller and tab bar controllers are introduced. This section also teaches how to define app flow using storyboards.

Yet another concept you will meet in almost any iOS app—table and collection views. This section teaches the fundamentals of working with them and how to solve the most common problems every developer will come across.

When the full-blown view controllers would be an overkill but you need some interaction.

Probably 100`% of business app do some communication over the network. This section teaches the fundamentals of HTTP protocol, some core concepts of REST APIs. After finishing it students will know how to make network requests and to deal with JSON data.

Concurency is hard but cannot be avoided. This section teaches the most important concepts.

Showing web content in the app is a very common task. In this section students will learn how to utilised WKWebView for this. It also introduces Safari View controller for the cases when you need an in-app browser.

Working with maps is another very common task for the iOS app. This section teaches the basics.

This short section familiarises students how to do a couple of common communication tasks.

Another commonly used system framework.

This section shows a couple of common ways to save the application data on iOS.

When the simple persistency is not enough there is always the option to use Core Data. Despite not being used in every app it is still important enough to be introduced to students so they will know how to deal with it if needed.

Once very simple notifications got quite a bit of functionality with the latest releases of iOS. This section teaches how to manage local and remote notifications.

In a globalised world it is rare that an app will serve monolingual audience. Here student learn how to properly deal with the application’s internationalisation and localisation. It also shows how to properly work with currency, numbers in dates across different locales and how to avoid reinventing the bicycle.

As it often happens we are not the first to come across some problem. Someone else had it first and made a solution. This section introduces the two most common ways to deal with a third-party code.

Here students learn what to do when their code seems to misbehave. It teaches a bit more advanced usage of breakpoints and introduces to the power of LLDB. A section of it is also dedicated to the crashlogs—sometimes it’s the only piece of evidence when something goes wrong for a user.

Last but not least — the app is done, now what? This section shows and tells what’s involved in the preparation of the application to the app store and Apple Store Connect.