Overview
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iOS app development is within your reach. Learn how to create a simple iOS 12 application with Swift 5 in just one day—no programming experience required!
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Create a simple iOS application in just one day
- What you should know
- The finished app
- Find and install Xcode
- Create an Xcode project
- Understanding the Xcode interface
- Configure Xcode for app development
- Configure the iOS simulator for app development
- Understanding how programming works
- Understanding variables
- Work with variables in a playground
- Using instance variables
- Connect visual objects to variables
- Place a number variable in a string
- Enum values
- Practical applications of variables
- Challenge: Create two variables
- Solution: Create two variables
- Understanding methods
- Using methods
- Understanding parameter methods
- Connect a button to a method
- Practical applications of methods
- Challenge: Methods
- Solution: Methods
- Understanding conditional statements
- Using conditional statements
- Boolean values
- Optionals
- Guard statements
- Practical examples of conditional statements
- Challenge: Build a clicker app
- Solution: Build a clicker app
- From building blocks to building apps
- Customize UI objects
- Place UI objects with pins
- Set up the user interface
- Finish the user interface
- View the app's code structure visually
- Set up instance variables and methods
- Connect all of the visual elements to code
- Display tapped numbers in the calculator
- Make the clear button clear all values
- Set the calculator to add or subtract
- Show the total when the equals button is tapped
- Format the number with commas
- Add an app icon
- Challenge: Multiplication button
- Solution: Multiplication button
- Next steps
