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Realtime apps with Swift & Firebase acquire impressive skill

Name: Realtime apps with Swift & Firebase acquire impressive skill
Rating: 4.0 (140 reviews)

Build a chat app that works in real time using Firebase and Swift, be the best developer impress your boss and friends

Created byIcaro Lavrador

Last updated 9/2016

English

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What you'll learn

Explore the Firebase administrative dashboard and dive into the development of a real-time link sharing app
Develop iOS apps with realtime data transfer
Add user accounts to your Firebase app and grant access to them with ease
Grasp the different ways to structure your Firebase data to be scalable and performant

Course content

20 sections • 72 lectures • 17h 12m total length

Introduction7:05
Explore how to use Firebase real-time database with Swift to build a chat app, including setting up authentication, storing and syncing messages in real time, and showing online status.
A little about me your future instructor2:26
Meet your future instructor, a Brazil-born developer who moved to New Zealand. He shares a lifelong passion for coding, early programming certificates, iOS experience.

How to create a Firebase application3:53
Learn few tips and tricks to create a new Firebase application, also a brief explanation about the options avaliable for us iOS developers.
Setup a Swift project using Firebase Pod12:06
How to create and setup an Swift project to work with Firebase using CocoaPod.
In this lesson we will

Create the Podfile

Execute the Pod installation

Import the necessary Bridge Headers from Firebase
Setup a Swift project using Firebase Framework5:03
How to create and setup an Swift project that works with Firebase Framework.

In this lesson we will:

Find it in the Firebase website, download

Import to our project with all the necessary dependencies.

The code in the end of this lecture will the offered as a boiled plate, in case you want go direct to coding.

Creating a reference to Firebase and reading your first value10:29
In this lecture we will create a reference to Firebase for both project (the one setup with Cocoapods and the one setup using the Framework)
Writing a simple value to Firebase4:06
Learn how to write a value to Firebase using the same Firebase variable, including handling completion blocks and observers, and exploring inside and outside observer patterns.

Displaying the value in Firebase in a Label in realtime8:53
Display Firebase data in real time by wiring a UILabel to a database value, set constraints and an outlet, and update the label text as data changes.
Sending the value from a Text Field to Firebase7:16
Creating more sophisticated nodes (Json) in Firebird5:19
We can create some more descriptive nodes in Firebase (Json) in this example we will create a node users with users inside with name, last name, is online flag, email among others, all the fields are update in real time in the XCode console for testing.
Creating a node users with string for the name and a boolean "isOnline" in Swift5:55
In this lecture we will learn how to create a node for the users and append the username also append the user last name and set a flag "isOnline" that will indicate if the user is logged or not, all the code will be done in the Swift side.
Just send user when button is pressed3:46
In this lesson we will move the instructions to set the user details to inside the action for the UIButton, we also will start to send the value inside the UITextField.
Set the text and the background color according to the user details in real time5:35
In this lesson we will learn how to set the username to the UILabel in real time, so as the user changes its username all the devices get update at the same time
Set the background color according to the user state in realtime8:01
In this lesson we will learn how to set the background color to red or green depend on if the user is offline or online as the user change his status all the apps get the colors update instantaneous.

"I commit a little error in the class that I decide to live in the video as I think many students can learn from it" Icaro
Design a simple but resizable (autolayout bonus material) Login/Sign Up screen9:17
In this lecture we will learn:

the different type of authentications in Firebase

how to activate the email and password in and

how to create create a login screen

Connection textfields and buttons5:10
In this lecture we will learn how to create a new class to associate with the loginviewcontroller we create before hand and we will associate the outlet (UITextfield) and actions (UIButtons) to this new UIViewController class
Creating and authenticating a new user in Firebase16:34
In this lecture we will learn how to create a new user in Firebase, authenticate this user and capture its authorization data with Firabase
Presenting login and sign up the errors to the user7:16
In this lecture we will learn how to create alert views to display messages to the users when something goes wrong in cases of login and sign up
Segue to table view controller after authenticate user with Firebase4:48
In this lecture we will learn how to add a segue to the new UITableViewController after authenticate user with Firebase

Understanding Firebase flattened architecture (NoSQL)5:54
Explore how Firebase's flattened NoSQL architecture models rooms, messages, and users, and learn why fetching only necessary fields instead of nested data improves performance in realtime apps.
Creating a flattened structure to our data7:43
Create a flattened firebase data structure for a real-time swift app by modeling users and posts with unique ids, authorization data, timestamps, and simple, scalable relationships.
Creating a UITextField inside an alertdialog to request the username18:28
In this lecrature I will share with you all knowledge about Signup screens and the science behind it, how they work and why. We also will learn how to display a alertdialog to request the user a username in case he is Signup for the first time.
Adding new User Node15:07
Create a new user node in Firebase by registering with a unique user id, storing username and online status under users/{uid}, and distinguishing sign-up from login.
Keep the user logged in and logout functionality16:29

Create the modal ViewController to enter the message11:15
Create a modal view controller to enter a message with a text field. Present it with the plus button and send to firebase for real-time distribution.
Populating MessageViewController13:07
Pass data between table view and message controller with completion blocks, implement prepare for segue, and safely dismiss the view while sending messages to firebase.
Sending the message to Firebase6:59
Store each message in Firebase under a generated post ID inside the posts node, including message and sender ID, then validate data insertion and retrieval by user keys.
Receive new messages in real-time from Firebase12:32
Displaying new messages in the tableView20:47

Requirements

A Mac running Yosemite or latest version of Mac Os
Xcode 6 or latest
Basic knowledge of iOS

Description

*** The next bonus section... is up to you!!! Enrol now and help us decide ***
*** added BONUS section selected by the students "Security & Rules on Firebase" ****
*** added BONUS section "Displaying online and offline users with different Avatars" ****
*** added BONUS section "How to add and use JSQMessageVIewController pod, make your app look like the iMessage iPhone app" ****

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As applications get more and more complex, clients demand faster interaction. They want to receive a post, a notice, an event as soon as it happens. They want to know if a friend is online or offline in a chat application as soon as the other party changes their status. They want to know these things as soon as they happen, in other words, in Real-Time.

Implementing real time systems can be very costly, complicated, and time consuming. This is where Firebase comes into play to save the day.

Firebase starts with a FREE tier that can be used even in your commercial applications. It also comes with a very simple to use API that can be use for iOS (including Swift), Android, and JavaScript so you don't have to worry about compatibility. It also comes with a very easy to use dashboard web interface.

You will learn:

proper and elegant error handling in Swift
proper and elegant code refactoring in Swift
proper and elegant use of enum in Swift
proper and elegant use of inheritance in Swift
how to import the JSQMessageViewController and use it to send and receive messages
how to make or app look like just like the iMessage from iPhone, including sound
Firebase Security and Rules

The qualifications I have that I believe will help me teach you?

I have received my first certification in programming in 1987 when I was only 10 years old in an apple II
I have been a professional developer for over 20 years
I am an active member on StackOverflow, and I am always helping members on the site. Helping people is the passion that brought me to create this course.
I currently rank as top 10% for Swift Help in StackOverflow
I currently rank as top 20 % for iOS Help in StackOverflow
I am dedicating a lot of time to this course so you can be sure you will have plenty of support in your journey.

What will you get from this course?

How to Authenticate to Firebase using email and password
How to read and write data in real time to and from Firebase
Develop iOS apps with real time data transfer
Learn the complex concepts of Swift necessary to build a real app
How to integrate Firebase in your Swift iOS App
Over 31 lectures and 4 hours of content!
Explore the Firebase administrative dashboard and dive into the development of a real-time link sharing app
Develop iOS apps with real-time data transfer
Add user accounts to your Firebase app and grant access to them with ease
Grasp the different ways to structure your Firebase data to be scalable and maintain performance

Who is the target audience?

This video course is for anyone with basic iOS experience who wishes to learn how to add real-time functionality to their apps with Firebase

What are the requirements?

A Mac running Yosemite or latest version of Mac Os
Xcode 6 or latest
Basic knowledge of iOS

Who this course is for:

This video course is for anyone with basic iOS experience who wishes to learn how to add real-time functionality to their apps with Firebase

Realtime apps with Swift & Firebase acquire impressive skill

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Course content

Introduction to Firebase2 lectures • 10min

Installing and Configuring CocoaPods2 lectures • 9min

First Steps with Firebase2 lectures • 5min

Creating your first project with Firebase3 lectures • 21min

First steps with Firebase and the Console2 lectures • 15min

Bring Firebase to the iPhone UI8 lectures • 54min

Creating our data structure4 lectures • 34min

Data Structure5 lectures • 1hr 4min

Sending the Message5 lectures • 1hr 5min

Bonus: Now let's make This app even Better1 lecture • 1min

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