☀️Introduction

What is iOS Development?

iOS Development is a specialized version of mobile application development, pertaining specifically to iOS devices. iOS refers to the mobile operating system created by Apple and is what powers many of the company's devices, including the iPhone, iPad, MacOS, and iPod Touch.

iOS development includes the construction of the user interface of an app, the handling of user interactions across the app, and the management of user data throughout the app. There are a number of ways to build iOS applications but the primary one is using Swift and in the Xcode IDE. The two native primary frameworks for building iOS applications are UIKit and SwiftUI.

Why should you take this course?

With iOS capturing almost 60% of the mobile operating system market share in the United States, iOS devices have become a ubiquitous part of daily life. Every day, you use your phone to communicate with friends, navigate to places, and keep up with social media. iOS development sits at the heart of all of the apps that you use for these activities. By taking this course, you will learn how to build an application from the ground up and gain the skills to transform any application idea into a working product.

Moreover, the skills that you learn in this course are broadly applicable to understanding other front end frameworks as well. As a result, many students who have completed this course end up more prepared to recruit for internships and build out their own products.

What will you learn in this course?

In this course, you will learn all the necessary components that comprise an iOS application. We begin with an introduction to Swift, the primary programming language for iOS. Then we will move on to teaching user interface development in UIKit, showing you how to build beautiful interfaces across all iOS mobile devices and how to visually organize data in applications.

Afterwards, we will proceed with lectures on networking, teaching you how to integrate your application with backend services by pulling data from and saving data to backend services.

From then on, we will delve in SwiftUI, a completely different (but equally useful) framework for building UI. Finally, we will learn advanced functionality such as creating push notifications, setting up authentication system. To put everything together, students will work on the Hack Challenge, a hackathon in which students from all AppDev courses build a full stack application from scratch. The winners will have their app features on the AppDev website!