iOS Media App and Game Development

Topics

• Intro to Course
• Intro to Xcode
• Intro Swift:
  • Swift Language Guide
  • Swift Guided Tour
  • var and let
  • Primitive types: Int, Float, Double, String, Boolean
  • println() and string interpolation
  • Type Inference and Type Safety
  • Type Aliases
• Intro to Playgrounds

Assignments

• SG-1 (Chapter 1 & 2 - ABC_HelloWorld App)
• Hello RIT parts 1 & 2
• Intro to Swift Video HW

Links

• Sample Code and Errata for course text
• store.apple.com - education
• wikipedia.org - Minimum Viable Product
• Here are some high quality iOS/Swift resources for you to check out:
  1. The iOS Dev Center has links to documentation, video, sample code, and the latest version of Xcode. You'll have to login with your developer account to access everything.
  2. The Swift Programming Language Tour and Language Guide
  3. The Swift Standard Library Reference
  4. Swift has 74 built-in functions in the standard library - only 7 of them are documented in the Swift online book. Here is a link to a page that documents them all.
  5. Apple's Start Developing iOS Apps Today is a great overview of how to develop iOS Apps. Unfortunately, it's written in Objective-C, so it's not as useful to us as it could be.
  6. The Big Nerd Ranch has an excellent blog on iOS and Android development here: http://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/
  7. raywenderlich.com has a large number of iOS and Swift tutorials: http://www.raywenderlich.com
  8. This site has a lot of links to nice Swift tutorials: http://www.learnswift.tips
  9. SpriteKit is Apple's API for creating 2D games. This site has a lot of links to nice SpriteKit tutorials: http://www.sprite-kit.com/tutorials/
  10. SceneKit is Apple's API for creating 3D games. It is new with iOS 8. Here's a tutorial on how to get started: http://www.raywenderlich.com/83748/beginning-scene-kit-tutorial
  11. There are also a lot of video tutorials and demos on YouTube - just ask the google.

Topics

• Storyboards
• More Swift:
  • Tuples
  • Optionals and Unwrapping
  • Collection classes: Dictionary & Array discussed in SG-2
  • Functions
  • Random Numbers
  • Loading files
  • Playing sound with AVAudioPlayer
  • NSError
• Installing an App onto iOS hardware

Demos

• iNoying
• iNoying2 - making it "bulletproof" with optionals and NSError

Assignments

• SG-2 (Chapter 3 - ABC_TipCalculator App)
• Technobabble take-home practical

Links

• stackoverflow - What is an optional value in Swift
• stackoverflow - What does an exclamation mark mean in the swift language?
• matteomanferdini.com - Understanding Swift Optionals
• developer.apple.com - AVAudioPlayer
• developer.apple.com - NSBundle
• developer.apple.com - NSString
• developer.apple.com - NSString Programming Guide
• developer.apple.com - UILabel
• developer.apple.com - UIButton
• developer.apple.com - UITextField
• developer.apple.com - UISegmentedControl

Topics

• MVC - Model-View-Controller
• Creating a Model Class:
  • Properties
  • Initializers
  • Methods
• Application Lifecycle & the App Delegate
• Notifications with NSNotificationCenter
• Saving app state with NSUserDefaults
• Auto Layout - setting constraints and previewing
• Commenting your code with //MARK: //TODO: and //FIXME:

Demos

• CountR
• CountR plus Model

Assignments

• SG-3 (Chapter 5 - Passport App)
• SG-Apple Design Video
• HW - Technobabble with model class and state saving

Links

• developer.apple.com - Streamline your Apps with Design Patterns
• developer.apple.com - UIApplicationDelegateProtocol
• developer.apple.com - NSNotificationCenter
• developer.apple.com - NSUserDefaults
• nshipster.com/swift-documentation

Topics

• App Design Process
• Multi-screened apps
• Navigation Controller
• Table Views

Assignments

• App Design Group ICE (Magnetic Poetry)
• Dr. Magneto Magnetic Poetry ICE
• Project 1 - Magnetic Poetry App
• Project 1 Teams
• SG-4 (Adding Autolayout and Size Classes to the Passport App)

Links

• Mobile UI Design:
  • Mobile HIG - App Design Process
  • Mobile HIG - App Elements
  • Mobile HIG - App Navigation
• View Controllers:
  • developer.apple.com - View Controller Programming Guide
  • developer.apple.com - View Controller Catalog for iOS
• Table View Controllers:
  • developer.apple.com - Table View Programming Guide for iOS
  • developer.apple.com - Sample Code - Table View Suite for iOS
  • developer.apple.com - Delegation
• Other:
  • magneticpoetry.com
  • Lovecraftian Letters
  • stackoverflow.com - whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon

Topics

• UITableView and UITableViewController
• Delegation and DataSource Patterns
• A model class for your app's data
• Singelton Design Pattern
• Custom Notifications

Assignments

• Chapter 8 - Maps and Location
• Chapter 9 - Camera, Photos, and Social Networks
• Work on Project 1

Links

• nshipster.com - UIAlertController
• Singleton Pattern in Swift
• developer.apple.com - Singleton Pattern
• developer.apple.com - Delegation Pattern
• developer.apple.com - Notification Pattern
• Swift Extensions
• codingexplorer.com - Swift Extensions and Computed Properties

Topics

• Getting a screenshot of a view
• Saving/Reading files & the iOS Documents Folder
• Swift Extensions and Computed Properties

Assignments

• Work on Project 1

Links

• raywenderlich.com - Swift Style Guide

• UIAppearance Protocol
• developer.apple.com - Appearance Customization
• nshipster.com/uiappearance/
• www.appcoda.com - Customizing tab bar background appearance

Downloading Data

• developer.apple.com - NSURLSession
• developer.apple.com - NSURLSessionConfiguration
• developer.apple.com - NSURL
• developer.apple.com - NSHTTPURLResponse
• developer.apple.com - NSJSONSerialization

Topics

• Parsing a web service
• UISearchBar
• Thursday 3/19 - Midterm Written Exam

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You will present your final projects during finals week: Time/Date TBA