Welcome to the iOS App Development Course from Awesome Inc U! Our goal is to take the first steps, together, in learning how to make iPhone apps. We hope this will be a fun, useful learning experience.

Link to this document: http://www.awesomeincu.com/notes/ioscrash/

Prerequisites

• Experience typing text on a computer (e.g. write an email, edit a Word document)
• Apple Mac computer (laptop, desktop) with OSX 10.8.4 or newer
• Apple Xcode 5 or newer

What you’ll learn

• How to use the Xcode IDE and iOS SDK
• Hello World
• Objective-C language basics
• User Interface design with Storyboards
• Connecting multiple views and using Tab bars
• Importing external images
• Introduction to MapKit and CoreLocation frameworks
• Sandbox time with 1-on-1 support from our instructional team

Course material

Notes: This document!

Presentation: iPhone App Development

Video: iPhone App Development Introductory Crash Course via Udemy (coupon code emailed to in-person course participants)

Assets: dev.awesomeinc.org/u/assets.zip

Schedule

12pm

• Course overview

• See sample app

• Live demo - your first app

• Hello world!

• Intro - slides
• Buttons and Text Fields

1pm

• Navigation Controller
• AutoLayout Constraints

2pm

• Sandbox time

• Image Views
• Background and Text Colors
• Sliders
• Switches

2:45pm

• Break

3pm

• Web View

• Add controls
• Improve UI with Text Field

3:30pm

• Map View

• MapKit
• CoreLocation
• Annotations
• Add POIs from JSON data source

4:30pm

• Break

5pm

• Animation Basics

• Stretchable images
• Movement

5:30pm

• Sandbox Time

6pm

• So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Outcomes

Create an Xcode project

Create a Hello World app

Use a Navigation Controller

Implement a Web View

Implement a Map View with Location

Animate an Image View

Additional resources

• Ray Wenderlich - Scary Bugs tutorial
• Object-Oriented Programming - RW
• Deploying to the App Store - RW
• NSHipster - the overlooked bits in Objective-C
• objc.io - A periodical about best practices and advanced techniques in Objective-C

Notes

Vocabulary

Xcode

Objective-C

Simulator

View Controller

View

.h file

.m file

Storyboard

Class

Object

Method

Attribute

Event

Connection

Delegate

Protocol