A. Intro

• Introduction
  • What is iOS and why it became so popular
  • How Apps are Made 
  • Getting  started - Tools needed, a brief introduction to Xcode, Simulator, Appstore, iTunes Connect, keychain and certificates 

 

• Xcode
  • Different sections in Xcode 
  • Xcode Project and Playground files 
  • Interface builder and Storyboard - How to create basic UI 

 

B. Language Basics

 

• Swift Introduction - This section will have interactive playground files
  • Why Apple needed Swift, How is it better than objective-c, an intro with syntax 
  • Variables, constants, Class, Struct, enum function and data types 
  • Array, Dictionaries, Sets- How and when to use each of them 
  • For loops, if-else, switch 
  • Functions, Nested functions, recursive functions, class functions 
  • Encapsulation, Inheritance 

 

• Memory Management in iOS - day 9
  • Instance vs class variables
  • Scope of a variable
  • Properties and attributes
  • Universal objects
  • Activity Life cycle, App life cycle

 

C. Learning iOS SDK

 

• Building UI
  • Universal Applications for iOS and iPad 
  • IB Outlets and changing UI Programmatically 
  • Framing Layout, Autolayout, Layout Anchors
  • Buttons, Images, Labels and TextFields, Textviews 
  • UIViews 
  • ScrollViews 
  • TableViews 
  • Custom table view cell 
  • Assignment discussion 
  • CollectionViews 
  • Webviews-  Opening/ displaying Web content in App 
  • Navigation Controller, Navigation stack 
  • Assignment discussion 
  • Tab bar 
  • Tab bar assignment solution 
  • Collection view inside tableview cell 
  • Assignment with tableview inside collection view cell 

 

• Customising UI 
  • Animations -  Frame and layer animations
  • Spring animation
  • Shadows, corner radius, bezier path
  • Colors and Gradient
  • Fonts

 

• Using Device components 
  • Touch gestures
  • Cameras, Gallery access
  • Location access
  • Playing Music
  • Playing video
  • Motion detection

 

C. Advance topics (Networking and data handling)

• Data Handling 
  • Protocols and delegates
  • Notification-centre
  • Data Persistance, NSUserDefaults, Plists, Keychains

 

• Networking / Web services 
  • NSUrlsession - How to consume a web service
  • Get, post, put, Delete
  • Callbacks / Completion handlers
  • Async Await
  • Assignment 

 

• Design Patterns
  • MVC 
  • Singleton 
  • MVVM in brief 
  • MVVM project assignment 
• Core Data
  • CRUD basics with Assignment 
  • Storing data from web-service  
  • Batch delete operations
•   Firebase 
  • To do list app 
  • CRUD 
  • Grocery app assignment 
  • Solution for assignment 
  • Chat app Project assignment 

 

D. Notifications

• • Push Notifications 
  • Deep linking with push notifications 
  • Push notifications assignment 
  • Local notifications 

 

E. Swift UI 

• Declarative programming basics
• Navigation Hierarchy
• Handling data
• Lists
• Fetching and updating data
• State management

 

F. Combine 

• Basics
• More concepts
• Assignment   

 

G. Location and maps apis

• Using google places api 
• Using core location framework to calculate distance

       between geo locations.

• Assignment discussion 
• Adding annotations to google maps 

 

H. App extension 

• Share extension
• Notification extension
• Assignment

 

I. In app purchase 

• Apple Storekit framework
• Creating SKUs and fetching
• Purchasing and receipt validation

 

J. Deploying apps to appstore 

• Creating app id, developer certificate, creating a provisioning profile
• Registering on iTunes connect and uploading

 

I. Bonus topics

• Data structures - Trie (search, insert) , Linked list 
• Sort algorithms - Quick sort, heap sort  
• Preparation for iOS fresher interview