Building a Chat App for iOS from Scratch

Name: Building a Chat App for iOS from Scratch
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Web-Services, Design, Parsing, Database, PHP and Much More

Created byQScutter Tutorials

Last updated 12/2013

English

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What you'll learn

Learn Building a Chat Application for iOS
Learn Building Web-Services
Learn Databases
Learn Parsing

Course content

6 sections • 14 lectures • 3h 21m total length

Demo of Chap App4:34
Demonstrates building a simple iOS chat app with user registration using email as the primary key, a friend list, one-to-one messaging, and basic chat rooms.
Demo of group chat room2:49
Explore how a chat room broadcasts messages to many users, including group chats and sports communities, and learn how messages are sent, received, and replied to within the app.

Creating the home screen for chat application24:35
Learn to build the home screen of an iOS chat app by configuring a table view with a data source and delegate and wiring navigation to chat rooms.
Creating UI of user registration screen25:32
Create the user registration screen with labels and text fields for username and description, plus a submit button. Apply constraints, delegates, and keyboard handling for smooth input and navigation.
Creating UI for chatroom list and friend's list20:20
Create the chat room list and friends list interface with a table view and navigation. Enable user registration, add friends, and build chat room creation flows.
Creating UI for add new friend and add new chat room20:35
Create two new screens and corresponding view controllers to add a new friend and a new chat room, wiring text fields, delegates, and navigation for smooth user flow.

Creating the database and web service21:07
Design a chat app database with user, chat room, and friend tables, enforce unique emails and room names, and build PHP MySQL web services for inserting and retrieving messages.
Implementing Web services - I10:49
Implement web services by integrating a library or custom networking code, posting chat messages, and debugging deployment targets to ensure reliable responses.
Creating web services19:10
Configure the iOS app by adding frameworks and resolving build issues, then enable web service calls. Implement user registration, chat rooms, and message handling with database updates.
Implementing Web service - II9:04
Implement web service integration to fetch data for the friend list and chat rooms. Register users, verify user IDs, and retrieve real-time data to populate chats.

Requirements

Objective-C
iOS Development

Description

With "Developing a chat app for iOS", you will learn everything about chat apps, even if you've never build one before!

The full course has several video lectures, divided into several chapters. Each chapter will give you a new level of knowledge in chat app development. We'll start from the basics of chat app development to more advanced and the most popular techniques used now a days.

"Building a Chat App" will give you a new perspective on how the Apps and Web-Services work And after you completed the course you will be able to create your own Chat app with the latest technology and technique. Hope you enjoy!

NOTE: In order to keep you up to date in the world of Chat app Development all the chapters will be updated regularly with new lectures, projects, quizzes and any changes in future versions of all the programming languages covered on the course.

Why Learn Chat App Development?

The Internet is the fastest and largest platform ever created for humans to learn, communicate, share, or create businesses of any kind, and all of this in just 15 years! It is estimated that in the next 2 or 3 years more than 80%%%% of the companies around the world will become internet dependent which will cause a huge demand for App developer in this market. As the World Wide Web grows Chat apps needs to upgraded proportionally.

Learning Chat app Development will give you the opportunity to start ahead of other competitors by giving you the knowledge of the most recent app technologies and how to better apply them on your future projects. Knowing Chat app Development will give you the ability to control and create anything on the mobile.

We promise you would have never had such kind of learning experience.

Welcome to "Building a Chat App for iOS"

Who this course is for:

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 7min

Database1 lecture • 13min

User Interface4 lectures • 1hr 31min

Web services4 lectures • 1hr

Sending of Message2 lectures • 30min

Exercise files1 lecture • 1min

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