Complete iOS7 Programming - Made Easy!

Explore the model–view–controller pattern by building a simple iPhone app in Xcode, wiring a model, view controller, and storyboard to display random fortunes like a Magic 8 Ball.

iOS is a layered system from hardware up to the cocoa touch interface, detailing the core OS, core services, and frameworks like Accelerate, Core Data, and OpenGL ES.

Explore the iOS app lifecycle, including states not running, inactive, active, background, and suspended, and how the app delegate manages transitions via application did finish launching with options.

Create multiple scenes in a storyboard, connect them with a modal segue from a button, and use the segue identifier in prepare for segue to customize the destination view controller.

Learn to recognize touch events on iOS by handling touches began, moved, and ended, including enabling user interaction on labels and tracking touch coordinates.

Explore how tab bar controllers act as containers for multiple view controllers, presenting a bottom tab bar to switch views, with relationship segues linking child controllers and automatic highlighting.

Instantiate a single model at the top of the app’s view controller hierarchy. Access it from tab bar and navigation controllers by casting to the specific tab bar controller.

Set up a simple table view in Interface Builder, connect to a colors array model, and implement data source methods in a table view controller.

Explore how property lists save and load dictionary and array collections in iOS, handle the documents directory within the sandbox, and read or write atomically to plist files.

Discover how blocks in Objective-C are nameless, passable code units. Learn their declaration, variable capture, read-write access with __block, and use in methods and dispatch.

Explore threading and synchronization, using mutexes and synchronized blocks to prevent race conditions when multiple threads access shared values. Apply Grand Central Dispatch and queues to manage access.

Explore NSOperation and operation queue concepts with a hands-on demo: create and queue CountOperation, manage concurrency with max concurrent operation count, and learn sequential execution via dependencies.

Learn how Grand Central Dispatch uses dispatch queues, including serial, concurrent, and the main queue, to manage threading with blocks and tasks, enabling asynchronous execution while keeping the UI responsive.

Explore video recording and playback using the camera api and mobile core services, including image picker setup, media types, and preview with the media player framework.

Demonstrates configuring an avi capture device for the highest frame rate, locking the device for settings, and setting up a capture session with input and output.

Deploy an AV capture session to detect and decode barcodes (QR and Aztek) in iOS, configure metadata output and delegate handling, and process barcode strings on the main queue.

Master how core animation provides low-level hardware support for displaying and animating view content via layers, and explore implicit and explicit animations and layer types.

This lecture demonstrates Core Animation 3D transforms by rotating a view and button 45 degrees around the z axis, using explicit CA transform 3D animation with a one-second duration.

Explore Core Animation 3D transforms by manipulating a 4x4 CATransform3D matrix through translation, rotation, and scale, using the identity matrix as a baseline and applying radians for angles.

Explore SpriteKit physics interactions in a demo series, adjusting gravity, dynamic properties, damping, and restitution. Observe how nonmoving and dynamic sprites collide, rotate, and bounce.

Explore Core Location usage with standard location service and significant change location service, balance accuracy and battery life, and control updates via the location manager.

Learn to use the significant location changes service to monitor updates with a location manager, start and stop monitoring, and display latitude and longitude while checking for enabled services.

Display a location on a map using MapKit by adding an MKMapView, enabling showsUserLocation, and exploring San Francisco with pan, zoom, and annotations.