iOS 11 & Swift 4 – The Complete iOS App Development Bootcamp Online Training

• What You'll Get in This Course
• How to Get All the Free Stuff
• Download Your Massive Asset Bundle Here
• Join the Student Community
• Get Monthly Tips and Tools to Level Up as a Developer

• Download Xcode 9
• A Walkthrough of the Xcode Development Environment
• Download the Swift Cheat Sheet and a Map of Xcode
• The Anatomy of an iOS App

• The I Am Rich App
• How to Properly Create a New Xcode Project
• What is a Bundle Identifier?
• Let's Design the User Interface Using Storyboards
• How to Position User Interface (UI) Elements
• Download the Pre-Prepared Image Assets Here
• How to Incorporate Image Assets into Your Xcode Project
• What's the Difference Between Points and Pixels & How to Design iOS Image Assets
• App Icon Dimensions and a Brief History of Graphics
• Asset Catalogue Compiler Warning
• Run and Test Your App!

• What is Sideloading and How Can You Get Your App onto Your iPhone?
• A Note About Sideloading and Permissions
• How to Sideload Your App using Xcode
• [Optional] How to Get a Professional Apple Developer Account

• What are Coding Challenges?
• What You Will Create by the End of this Challenge
• What is GitHub and How to Download the Stub Projects
• Download the Project Stub Here
• Step 1 - Add a UILabel
• Step 2 - Add and Arrange the ImageView
• Step 3 - Design your App to your Heart's Content
• Show Off Your Work!

• What You'll Make by the End of This Module
• Download the Pre-Prepared Image Assets Here
• How to Design Your App
• Linking Design with Code
• [Common Errors] IBOutlets/IBActions Debugging
• How to Create Randomisation in Swift
• A Note About Playgrounds
• Data Types, Constants and Variables
• How to Solve the Error: "The Maximum Number of Provisioning Profiles Reached"
• Learn About Arrays in Swift and Programmatically Update the Display
• [How to Become a Better Programmer] The DRY Principle
• How to Add Motion Detection in to Your App
• Download the Completed App Project

• What You'll Build in this Coding Challenge
• Step 1 - Create a New Xcode Project
• Step 2 - Download the Image Asset's We've Already Prepared for You
• Step 3 - Add App Icons to Your Project
• Step 4 - Add the 8 Ball Images
• Step 5 - Setup the Canvas
• Step 6 - Design the App in Interface Builder
• Step 7 - Link the Design with Code
• Step 8 - Make the Ball Image Change with Your Code
• Step 9 - Make a Method
• Step 10 - Add Shake Gesture Detection
• If You Get Stuck...
• Optional: Magic 8 Ball Solution Walk Through

• Introduction to the Programming Modules
• Comments, Print Statements and Debug Console
• Optional Review: Data Types, Constants and Variables
• Swift Functions: Part 1 - The Simple Function
• Swift Functions: Part 2 - Functions with Inputs
• Swift Functions Part 3 - Functions with Outputs
• Control Flow with Conditional Statements in Swift (IF/ELSE)
• Download the Completed Swift Playgrounds
• [Challenge] Make a BMI Calculator in Swift Playgrounds
• Optional: BMI Calculator Challenge Solution
• Introduction to Loops in Swift - The For In loop
• Using Loops in Your Program
• Optional: A Brain Teaser with Loops and the Fibonacci Sequence

• What You'll Make by the End of This Module
• Download the Skeleton Project
• How to Use Tags in the Storyboards
• How to Use the Apple Documentation to Tap into Any iPhone Capability You Want
• The Swift 4 Programming Language Guide from Apple
• Incorporate AVFoundation to Play Sound
• Error Catching in Swift 4 - Do, Catch and Try
• Create a Method to Contain the Sound Playing Functionality
• [Common Swift Errors] "Index Out of Range" and How to Debug it
• Make the App Play a Different Sound for Each Button
• The Importance of "Scope" in Programming
• Download the Completed App Project

• What You'll Make by the End of This Module
• Download the Skeleton Project Here
• Set up the Project
• What is a Property List (.plist)?
• Let's Create a Data Model
• Further Reading
• Object-Oriented Programming - What are Objects and Classes?
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) a Quick Note from Steve Jobs
• Creating the Question Bank Class
• [ELI5] The Model View Controller (MVC) Design Pattern - Explain Like I'm 5
• Initialise the First Question
• How to Progress Through the Question Bank
• [Debugging Practice] Using the Xcode Debug Console
• How to Implement a UIAlertController and Show a Popup to the User
• A High Level Overview of How Our App Works
• How to Track Progress and Score
• How to Incorporate Objective-C Code in to Swift
• Background on the Questions
• Download the Completed App Project

• What You'll Build in This Coding Challenge
• A Choose Your Own Adventure Game
• Step 1 - Download the Skeleton Project
• Step 2 - Make a Note of the Tag Properties
• Step 3 - Set up the Introductory Screen
• Step 4 - Take the Story One Step Further
• Step 5 - Keeping Track of State
• Step 6- Use Comparators to Let the User Progress Through the Game
• Optional: Destini Solution Walk Through

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• Classes and Objects
• Creating a New Class from Scratch
• Creating Enums in Swift
• How to Create an Object from a Class
• Class Initialization
• Designated and Convenience Initializers
• Creating a Method
• Class Inheritance - The Theory
• How to Override an Inherited Method
• Class Inheritance - Putting it into Practice
• What are Swift Optionals?!?!
• Optionals Explained

• What You'll Make by the End of This Module
• Download the Skeleton Project Here
• Setting up the Skeleton Project
• Sign Up for a Free API Key
• What are Cocoapods and Why Do We Need Them?
• Install and Setup Cocoapods on Your System
• Troubleshooting Cocoapods Installation
• Installing New Pods in Your Xcode Project
• Fix for Those with a Version of Cocoapods Below 1.0.1
• Completing the Pod Installation Process
• No Such Module Error
• Setting up the Location Manager to Get GPS Data from the iPhone
• Asking the User for Location Permissions
• Tapping into the GPS
• What is Delegation?
• Swift Dictionaries
• What are APIs?
• Networking with Alamofire
• Networking & REST Explained
• What is JSON and How to Parse it
• Create a Weather Data Model
• Update the User Interface
• Creating and Using Segues in Xcode
• Using Delegates and Protocols in iOS App Development
• How to Pass Data Between View Controllers
• Delegates and Protocols Explained
• Request Weather Data Based on City Name
• Download the Completed App Project

• Introduction to the Command Line
• Command Line Shortcuts
• Directory and File Manipulation Using the Command Line + Bonus

• What You'll Build by the End of This Coding Challenge
• Step 1 - Check out the Skeleton Project
• How to Set up and Use the UIPicker Class
• Step 2 - Construct the API URL
• Step 3 - Setup Your Cocoapods for this Project
• Step 4 - Make Networking Calls
• Step 5 - Parse the JSON Data
• Step 6 - Update the User Interface
• Step 7 - Are We Rich Yet?
• Optional: Bitcoin Challenge Solution

• A Note About Firebase Version 4
• What You Will Make
• What is Firebase?
• Download the Skeleton Project
• Register for an Account on Firebase
• Set Up Firebase for Development
• A Note About ProgressHUD
• A Note About Potential Issues You Might Encounter
• Saving Data to Firebase
• Let's Register Some Users to our App
• Swift Closures [Advanced Swift]
• The Event-Driven Nature of Apps
• What are Completion Handlers and How Do They Work?
• How Do Navigation Controllers Work and How do You Create Them?
• Let's Code Up the Login Screen
• What are TableViews and How to Set One Up?
• Making a Custom Message Class
• A Note About Lecture 190
• Learn About UI Animations in iOS and Make Our Own
• Let's Send Some Messages!
• Observing for Database Changes
• Bug Fix - Where's the Historical Message Data?
• Update the Security Setting of Your Database
• Let's Improve the UX - Add a Progress Spinner
• Improving the UI - Differentiating Between Different Users
• Download the Completed App Project

• A Note About Firebase Version 3
• What You'll Make by the End of This Module
• What is Firebase?
• Download the Skeleton Project
• Register for a Free Account on Google Firebase
• Set up Firebase for Development
• Xcode 9 Bug
• Saving Data to Our Own Cloud Database
• Let's Register Some Users to Our App
• An Overview of Our App
• Swift Closures
• The Event Driven Nature of Mobile Apps
• What are Completion Handlers and How Do They Work?
• The Navigation Controller in iOS
• How to Use the Swift Guard Statement
• Let's Code Up the Login Screen
• iOS Table Views and How to Properly Set One Up
• Making a Custom Message Class
• UI Animations in iOS and How to Make Our Own
• Let's Send Some Messages
• Observing for Real-Time Database Changes
• [Bug Fix] Where are the Historical Messages?
• Update the Security Settings for Your Database Before Your Deploy
• Let's Improve the User Experience (UX) of Our App
• Let's Improve the User Interface (UI)
• Download the Completed App Project
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• Introduction to Version Control and Git
• Version Control Using Git and the Command Line
• GitHub and Remote Repositories
• Gitignore
• Cloning
• Branching and Merging
• Using Git and GitHub in Xcode 9
• Forking and Pull Requests

• The Clear app Clone that You'll Build By the End of This Module
• Subclassing a UITableViewController
• TableView Delegate Methods and Accessories
• Creating a Textfield Inside UIAlert to Add New Items
• Why Do We Need Persistent Local Data Storage?
• Persistent Local Data Storage Using UserDefaults
• UserDefaults Explained
• [Advanced Swift] The Swift Singleton Object
• Creating a Custom Data Model
• [Advanced Swift] The Swift Ternary Operator
• Restructuring Our App with MVC
• The Concept of iOS Sandboxing
• Encoding Data with NSCoder
• Decoding Data with NSCoder
• Introduction to Databases
• How to Setup and Configure Core Data
• How to Save Data with Core Data (Create in CRUD)
• How to View Your SQLite Database Backend for Core Data
• Core Data Fundamentals
• Reading Data from Core Data (Read in CRUD)
• Updating Data with Core Data (Update in CRUD)
• Removing Data from Core Data (Delete in CRUD)
• How to Implement a UISearchBar and Querying with Core Data
• How to Go Back to the Original List?
• How to Create Relationship Graphs in Core Data
• [Solution to Challenge] Setting Up CategoryViewController
• Adding the Delegate Method
• Introduction to Realm
• How to Save Data Using Realm (Create in CRUD)
• Fetching Data from Realm (Read in CRUD)
• Updating Data with Realm (Update in CRUD)
• Removing Data from Realm (Delete in CRUD)
• Querying Data Using Realm
• Review of How Our App Uses Realm for Data Persistence
• Making Our Cells Swipeable
• Inheriting from SwipeTableViewController
• [Solution to Challenge] Inheriting from SwipeTableViewController
• Adding Colour to Our App
• [Solution to Challenge] Persisting the Colour Property
• Creating Gradient Flow Cells
• Updating the UI of the Navigation Bar
• The Completed App Project

• Introduction to Machine Learning
• Supervised Learning
• Unsupervised Learning
• Reinforcement Learning

• A Quick Note About Xcode and iOS Versions
• What is CoreML?
• What we'll be making
• How to Import the Image Recognition Model & Enable Camera Functionality
• Getting Image Recognition Results Back from Our V3 Model
• Hotdog or Not Hotdog?
• Download the Completed App Project

• What You'll Make by the End of This Module
• A Note About The Next Lecture
• How to Install and Use Carthage as a Dependency Manager
• Carthage Installation Links
• How to Implement the Camera and Photo Library Functionality in iOS
• How Use A Pre-Trained Neural Net from IBM to Classify Any Image
• How to Process the Data You Get Back from IBM Bluemix
• Let's Beautify Our App and Make it Look Like the Real Deal
• Download the Completed App Project

• Installing CoremlTools using Python PIP
• Converting a Caffe Model into MLModel
• [Challenge] - Set up a UIImagePickerController
• [Solution] - Setting up a UIImagePickerController
• [Challenge] Getting Classifications from Our Model
• [Solution] Getting Classifications from our Model
• [Challenge] Adding Cocoapods to Our Project
• [Solution] Adding Cocoapods to Our Project
• [Challenge] Making HTTP GET requests to Wikipedia using Alamofire and REST
• [Solution] Making HTTP GET requests to Wikipedia using Alamofire and REST
• [Challenge] Parsing the JSON Result using SwiftyJSON
• [Solution] Parsing the JSON Result using SwiftyJSON
• Displaying Images From a URL using SDWebImage
• [Bonus Lesson] Creating the App Icon From Scratch and Styling the App
• Download the Completed App Project

• ARKit Device Compatibility
• Introduction to Augmented Reality and ARKit
• How to Setup and Configure Your Project for AR
• How to Create a 3D Object in Augmented Reality
• Bring the Moon into Your Living Room Using AR
• How to Find and Import 3D Models for AR
• Update to ARKit Syntax
• How to Detect Horizontal Planes in the Real World
• How to Detect Touch on Real World 3D Objects
• How to Place Our Dice in 3D Using Touch
• How to Animate 3D Objects in AR
• How to Animate and Roll all the 3D Dice at Once
• How to Remove Our 3D Objects from the AR Scene
• [Optional Lesson] Refactoring Our Code for Better Readability
• Download the Completed App Project

• Install Unity 5
• Setting Up Vuforia and Unity 5
• Conjuring Your Pikachu in Augmented Reality

• What We'll Make By the End of This Module
• Adding the Start and End Measuring Points in 3D
• A Note About The Next Lecture
• Measuring the Distance in AR
• Creating 3D Text to Display in AR
• Enabling New Measurements
• Download the Completed App Project

• How to Publish Your App on to the App Store
• Resources to Check Out When You're Ready to Publish
• Useful Tools to Help You with App Submissions

• Where to Go From Here?
• Resources

• Introduction to App Design
• Why Design is Important for an App Entrepreneur
• Designer vs. Non-Designer Thinking

• Understanding the Mood of Your Colour Palette
• How to Combine Colours to Create Colour Palettes
• Tools for Designing with Colour
• Further Reading on Designing with Colour

• Introduction to Typography
• The Serif Type Family - Origins and Use
• The Sans-Serif Type Family - Origins and Use
• How Typography Determines Readability
• How to Combine Fonts Like a Pro
• Further Reading on Typography

• What is User Interface (UI) Design?
• The Tour Guide Approach to UI Design
• The Importance of Alignment
• What is Good Practice in Interaction Design
• Colour in User Interface Design
• The Many Ways of Designing Text Overlays
• How to Be an Attention Architect
• Further Reading on User Interface Design

• What is User Experience (UX) Design?
• Usability
• Asking for Permissions
• User Profiling
• Form vs. Function
• Consistency
• Simplicity
• Don't Make Me Think
• Onboarding
• Idiot Boxes
• Further Reading on User Experience Design

• Android vs. iOS Design
• Navigation
• The Devil is in the Details
• Differences in Icon Design
• Flat Design vs. Material Design
• Differences in Establishing Visual Hierarchy
• iOS and Android Design Guidelines

• Step1 - Design Patterns and Colour Palettes
• Where to Find Design Patterns and Colour Palettes
• Step 2 - How to Create a User Flow Diagram
• Step 3 - How to Create Wireframes
• Wireframing Resources
• Step 4 - How to Create Professional Mockups
• Tools for Creating Mockups
• How to Use Sketch to Create Mockups
• [Optional] Watch me Create a Mock up Using Sketch
• How to Use Canva to Create Mockups
• Your Turn to Create Your Own Mockups
• Tools and Resources for Creating Mockups
• Step 5 - How to Create an Animated App Prototype
• Tools and Resources for Creating Prototypes
• Prototyping with Keynote
• Prototyping with Marvel
• Your Turn to Create a Prototype

• Where to Find Free-For-Commercial-Use Image Assets
• Where to Find Free-For-Commercial-Use Icons
• How to Keep Designing and Improving

• The Importance of App Marketing
• The Fallacy of Build it and They Will Come

• The Importance of Idea Validation
• The Simplest Way of Validating Your Idea - The Starbucks Method
• Using Google Trends to Estimate the Size of Your Market
• The Landing Page Validation Method
• How to Create a Landing Page Website in Less than an Hour
• Creating a Minimum Viable Product
• Using Crowd-funding to Validate and Fund Your Idea

• How to Monetise Your App on iOS vs. Android
• When You Should Create a Paid App
• When to use In-App Advertisements
• How You Thought About These Alternative Monetisation Models?

• How to Get an App icon Designed without Breaking the Bank
• Split Testing for Super Success
• What Makes a Good App Icon?
• The Dos and Don'ts of Making App Screenshots
• Tools for Building Screenshots

• Your First 1000 Customers
• Building an Email List
• The All Important Landing Page
• Blogging Your Way to Success
• Content Marketing for App Downloads
• How to Successfully Launch on Product Hunt
• How to Launch on Beta List
• How to Launch on Hacker News
• If At First You Don't Succeed...
• Cross Promotion
• Social Referrals and Social Queuing
• How to Make Social Media Work for You

• Do I Need a PR Agency?
• Not All Press is Created Equal
• How to Craft Your Story
• How to Craft Your Pitch
• How to Figure Out Which Journalists to Pitch
• How to Find Anyone's Email Address
• How to Pitch a Journalist
• Just-Add-Water Journalist Pitch Email
• Establishing a Relationship with a Journalist
• What if You Still Can't Get Anyone to Write About You?
• Final Tips on Getting Press

• How to Get Featured on the App Store?
• "Only on the App Store"
• Work with the Corporate Mindset
• Native vs. Cross-Platform Apps
• Tips and Tricks for Getting Featured

• What is App Store Optimisation (ASO)?
• Top Tips to Optimise Your App Store Listing
• My Complete ASO Workflow
• Using Apple Search Ads as a Research Tool
• Early vs. Late Game Strategies
• Differences Between Google Play and Apple App Store

• When to use Paid Advertising or App Marketing
• Always Test Before You Advertise
• Which Platform to Advertise On?
• How Much Does it Cost?
• How to Setup Your Facebook Ad
• Use Your Competitors' Ad Budget
• Where Can I Find More Customers?
• One Weird Trick to Get More Money from Apple

• How to Get More 5 Star Ratings and Reviews
• Use This Free Tools to Monitor Your App Reviews

How to Use App Analytics to Increase User Retention

• How to use App Analytics to Increase User Retention

• White Hat Techniques
• Black Hat Techniques

• A 5 Second Way of Building a Web Page for Your iOS App
• How to Use Bootstrap to Build Your App Showcase Website

• It's Time to Work Out Your Marketing Strategy
• Monthly Student-Built App Showcase

• Ask Me Anything - Questions for Angela - Episode 1
• Ask Me Anything - Questions for Angela - Episode 2
• Ask Me Anything - Questions for Angela - Episode 3