How to Make a Freaking iPhone App - iOS 10 and Swift 3

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Introduce an emoji class with properties like emoji, definition, category, and birth year, and implement a make emoji function returning an array of emoji objects to display categories.

Sketch the do it to-do list app, showing how to add items (important flag), view details, and complete tasks, while creating an iOS project with core data and GitHub integration.

Create a task screen by adding a name label, a text field, an important switch, and an add button in the storyboard. Wire outlets and an action to CreateTaskViewController.

Learn to access the NSManagedObjectContext via the app delegate's persistent container, save changes, and fetch tasks from core data to replace in-memory storage.

Learn how dictionaries in Swift work as key-value stores, where order doesn't matter, access values by keys, and build examples using dog names and ages.

Learn to build an iOS UI flow by adding a plus button, embedding in a navigation controller, and wiring a sound view controller with outlets, actions, and a segue.

Add an audio player, configure a url, and enable the play button after recording, using a do-catch block to handle optional urls.

Create a sound entity with name and audio data, convert the recorded audio URL to data, and save it to Core Data using the context, with add button logic.

Learn practical app store submission tips to boost your launch: perfect your app icon, screenshots, and title; craft clear descriptions and keywords; plan ahead and anticipate rejections.

Create and configure a provisioning profile using the distribution certificate and app ID to prepare your iOS app for the App Store, then download and verify before iTunes Connect setup.

Sign in to iTunes Connect to manage your app, upload the app icon and screenshots, set version details, and apply the provisioning profile.

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Sign in or create a user with email and password using Firebase, handle errors with completion blocks, and navigate via segues and a navigation controller, including a log out.

Design a plus button and a camera-enabled view to capture an image, enter a description, and proceed with a next button, wiring up outlets and actions in storyboard.

Learn to optimize image uploads in a Swift iOS app by converting to jpeg with compression, generating unique file names with NSUUID, and obtaining download URLs from Firebase storage.

Add snaps to firebase by modeling a snap with image, description, from, and to, then store it under a user's snaps using an auto-ID.

pulls the current user's snaps from firebase, defines a snap model with imageURL, description, and from, and displays them in a table view using a data source and delegate.

Learn to download and display images in a Snapchat clone using CocoaPods and SDWebImage, installing the pod and setting the image asynchronously with aspect fit.

Remove a deleted snap from the in-app array by matching its Firebase key with a for loop and deleting the corresponding index, then update the table.

Explore Firebase to build and deploy a social app, from Snapchat-like or Twitter-like experiences, to sharing with friends' phones and launching on the app store.