The Complete iOS 10 & Swift 3 Developer Course

Discover how to download and install Xcode 8 for free, sign in with an Apple ID, and preview your apps across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch within Xcode.

Navigate the Xcode interface to create a single view iOS app, explore left, center, and right panes, run on a simulator, and preview storyboard views and view controller code.

Drag a label from the object library into the main storyboard, set its text to hello world, and customize its color, font, and size.

Explore how to run Swift code in a view controller, print to the console, and work with imports like UIKit to manage the app's interface.

Learn how to add interactivity to an iOS app using Swift, wiring up buttons and labels with outlets and actions, updating a label from a text field.

Learn to add an image view to your iOS app, import a hedgehog image from Wikipedia, and choose aspect fit to preserve the image’s proportions.

Build your first cat years app in Swift for iOS 10, wiring labels and inputs with iboutlets and actions, converting input to numbers, and multiplying by seven to calculate cat years.

Explore Swift 3 basics through playgrounds, running small code snippets instantly, using variables and print to display output in the console, and learn to leverage playgrounds to build bigger apps.

Learn how to define and use variables in Swift with var and let. Explore strings, integers, doubles, booleans, concatenation, printing, and type conversions, and preview arrays.

Learn how arrays and dictionaries work in Swift, including indexing, appending, removing, sorting, and printing; explore optionals and unwrapping, and managing mutable data for a menu example.

Learn how to use if statements in Swift to test conditions with greater than, greater than or equal to, equal, and not equal. Combine with and, or, and booleans for real-world app logic.

Build a how many fingers game that generates a random number between 0 and 5 and checks the player's guess, wiring labels, a text field, and a button.

Explore while loops in Swift by using a counting variable with conditions like i < 10, incrementing with i += 1, and applying to seven times table and array values.

Build a ghost class in Swift to illustrate classes and objects, create ghost instances with is alive and strength, and use kill and is strong methods to manage state.

Build an is it prime app in iOS using Swift 3, implementing input validation, safe optional handling, and a prime-checking algorithm, with auto layout for portrait and landscape.

Transition from isolated Swift coding to iOS 10 development, building an egg timer, table views, and a weather app while refining five to ten app ideas.

Master navigation bars and toolbars in a single view iOS app, add bar button items, and connect actions like printing 'camera pressed' to the console using flexible space for layout.

Build an egg timer app using a Swift timer to count down every second, update the label, and stop at zero, with play, pause, plus/minus 10, and reset controls.

Learn to build an iOS table view with a prototype cell, reuse identifier, and data source and delegate setup, then display static content or an array of data.

Create a times tables app using a slider to choose 1–20 and display the first 50 numbers in a table view, wiring up outlets, actions, and data source methods.

Learn to create multiple view controllers and navigate between them with segues. Link a second view controller via a Swift class and test the transition flow.

Learn to build a three-controller to-do list app with a table view, add and persist items via user defaults, handle the keyboard, and swipe to delete.

Download web content using a web view to display pages, load url requests, and handle asynchronous networking with dispatch queues, while learning about http vs https and app transport security.

Master advanced string manipulation in Swift: concatenate, iterate characters, use String and NSString, extract substrings with ranges, check contains, split into components, and normalize case for weather data.

Explore advanced iOS API, animate images, and build a tic tac toe game. Build GPS-enabled apps with maps, location data, audio playback, and motion gestures, culminating in a final app.

Build a tic tac toe game for iOS with Swift, animated UI, using nine tagged buttons, a board state array, winning combinations, and a play again flow.

Integrate maps into your app by adding a MapKit map view and configuring a region with latitude, longitude, and a span to zoom and animate to Taj Mahal.

Learn to embed an mp3 in your iOS app, create an audio player with AVFoundation, and control playback with play, pause, and a volume slider using Swift.

Build the back to back app by integrating an audio player with play, pause, volume, and a scrubber that advances with the track, plus navigation bar and toolbar setup.

Detect shakes and swipes on iOS using motion events and swipe gesture recognizers. Configure shake detection and left and right swipes to trigger console messages and extend to other directions.

Create a sound shaker app that plays a random downloaded sound when the device is shaken, using a simple label interface and AVFoundation for audio playback.

Learn to use core data to store complex data permanently, integrate APIs such as Google Maps, Facebook, and open weather map, and download images for the blog reader app.

Discover how to use Core Data for permanent storage by configuring the persistent container and context, creating a users entity, saving and fetching data, and building a simple login flow.

Advance your core data skills by using predicates to fetch specific values, update and delete records, and apply these techniques in a logging demo app.

Learn to download images from the web, display them in a large image view, and save and restore them locally using the documents directory for a resilient blog reader app.

Create an offline blog reader using the Blogger API v3 with an API key to fetch posts, store titles and content in core data, render HTML in a web view.

Build social apps by setting up passive server on AWOS to store user data and enable login and communication, then create an Instagram-like clone with photo uploads.

Set up an Amazon EC2 instance on AWS, install the Parse Server, and configure your iOS app to connect to the Parse server to store and manage user data.

Learn to save, retrieve, and update PFObjects in the background with PFQuery and getObjectInBackground, handle success and errors, and manage ACLs for public read and write.

Create a single view app with an import image button that opens the image picker for camera or photo library and displays the chosen image with aspect fit.

Learn to implement alerts and spinners in iOS apps, using a UI alert controller with options and a UI activity indicator view to show busy states, plus basic interaction management.

Create a simple sign up and login flow for an Instagram-like app using a basic interface, switching between sign up and log in, validating inputs, and handling errors with alerts.

Enable pull to refresh by adding a UIRefreshControl to the table, setting its title to 'pull to refresh', and wiring a Refresh method to update user details.

Learn to implement an image posting flow by adding a post view controller, enabling photo library image selection, and uploading a post with text and image.

View and scroll the feed of followed users using a table view controller and custom feed cells. Retrieve posts, images, and usernames from the Parse server to populate the feed.

Build a tinder clone in this chapter, incorporating swipe interactions, push notifications, and Parse server setup to replicate nearby profiles and mutual matches.

Launch an AWS EC2 t2 micro instance, install the parse server via Bitnami, and configure the app in Xcode using the server URL, app ID, and master key.

Change the app id and master key to avoid security issues from default credentials, using ssh access, command-line edits, and updating the pass dashboard to reflect new credentials.

Drag a label around the screen with a pan gesture, detect left or right swipes to choose or not, then reset it to center with rotation and scale.

Build a username and password login and sign-up flow with a toggle between sign up and log in, handling errors and background user creation.

Learn to add and update user details in sign-up flows, including profile image uploads, gender and interest switches, ACL handling, and syncing current user data.

Add and animate sprites by loading bird textures, creating an SKSpriteNode, positioning it at the screen center, and applying a looping SKAction to flap between textures.

Use a collider enum to separate the bird from pipes and ground, configure physics bodies and contact masks, and end the game by stopping the scene on collision.

This introduction reorients you from game projects to serious app development, guiding you to build a rideshare-style app with location, maps, and a server to store user data.

Builds an Uber-like app that connects riders to drivers, with login to choose writer or driver, create and cancel requests, drivers view and accept, and navigate via Apple Maps.

Create a sign up and login screen with a rider or driver switch, validate username and password, show error alerts, and toggle between sign up and log in.

Develop a rider and driver flow with login or signup, a map showing your live location, and an Uber call/cancel feature backed by the pass server.

Learn to implement the driver view controller, show nearby rider requests on a map, accept requests, and launch Apple Maps for driver navigation through location updates and reverse geocoding.

Show the rider the driver’s real-time location by scaling the map to include both points, calculating distance, and updating the rider UI with driver’s arrival status.