App Development Summer Camp NJ (High School)

Week 1

Introduction to Tools of the Course

• XCode
• iOS
• Swift

Hello World App

Roll The Dice App

The Swift Programming Language

• The Swift Playground
• Comments
• The println() function

Variables

• Variables
• Constants
• Data types
• Optionals
• Type inference

Conditional Statements & Operators

• The if statement
• The else statement
• The else if statement
• Comparison operators
• Arithmetic operators
• Logical operators

Strings

• Literals
• Mutable strings
• Comparing strings
• Concatenating strings

Week 2

Tip Calculator App

Functions

• Functions with parameters
• Functions with returned values

Optional Unwrapping

• Forced optional unwrapping
• Implicitly unwrapped optionals
• Optional binding

Loops

• For loops
• While loops
• For in loops
• Iterating over arrays

Creating a Class

• Object-oriented programming
• Objects & classes
• Methods
• Properties

Methods

• Methods with parameters
• Methods with return values

Structs

• Creating a struct
• Accessing a struct

Inheritance

• Creating a subclass
• Method overriding

Extensions

• Extending existing classes
• Using extensions

Protocol & Delegates

• Defining & implementing protocol
• Delegate design pattern
• Implementing & using delegates

Closures

• Defining a closure
• Closures with parameters
• Closures with returned values
• Closures as callbacks

Week 3

ENUMS

• Creating & using enumerations

Type Casting

• Type checking
• Type casting
• Downcasting

Tuples

• Creating & using tuples

Type aliases

• Creating & using type aliases

ARC

• Strong & weak references
• Avoiding strong reference cycles

Card War App

• Importing the images
• Adding the button that draws the cards
• Labeling the deck & each player’s score
• Adding constraints to our labels
• Adding a button to restart the game & constraining it
• Adding & constraining the background image

Week 4

Auto Layout

• Stacks
• Nested Stacks
• Downcasting
• Constraints
• Content Hugging Priority
• Compression Resistance Priority

Card War: The Data Model & Linking the UI to Code

• Connecting the UI to the View Controller
• Modeling a single card by adding a Card class
• Modeling all the cards by adding a Deck class
• Adding the shuffle functionality

Card War: Adding Variables to the View Controller

• Declaring variables
• Responding to changes in a variable’s value using the didSet property observer
• Starting with the drawingCards function

Card War: Displaying the Cards & Score

• Creating the UIImageViews that will hold the cards
• Setting the size & position of the cards that are drawn
• Revealing the cards & updating the winner’s score
• Defining what happens when the game is restarted

Card War: Animating the Cards

• Animating the cards’ move from the deck button to their respective positions
• Revealing the cards’ values after they are done moving
• Revealing the cards’ values with a flipping transition
• Incorporating the final code into the animation

Week 5

Building the Lists App

Previewing on iPhone without Developer Account

Establishing an Apple Developer Account

• Creating an Apple Developer Account
• Registering your device to run apps directly from Xcode

Lists: UI with Two View Controllers That Display Table Cells

• Creating files for a dual View Controller app
• Adding a Navigation Controller to manage our two views
• Adding UI elements to the first View Controller
• Constraining the UI objects on the first View Controller
• Copying the first View Controller to create the second

Lists: Refining & Beautifying the UI

• Adding images from the designer
• Improving the UI design on our Storyboard screens
• Differentiating the two View Controllers
• Setting View Controller & Table View Cell classes

Outline Your App Idea

Week 6

Building the Lists App, Continued

Lists: The Data Model & Linking the UI to Code

• Cleaning up the View Controller & Table View Cell files
• Connecting both UI screens to their respective files
• Creating List & List Item classes in the data model

Week 7

Weather Forecast App

• Acquiring an API Key
• Using the Weather Underground API
• Reading JSON
• App Transport Security Settings
• Adding Error Messages
• Linking to an Outside Website
• Completion Handlers
• Do... Catch
• Converting Strings into Floats
• Displaying the Keyboard in the Simulator
• Dismissing the Keyboard

Week 8

Met Gallery App Part 1

Met Gallery: Assets, Launch Screen, & Home View Controller

• Creating files for a multiple View Controller app
• Adding assets & using the Assets Catalog
• Creating a launch screen
• The Home View Controller & UI elements
• Adding constraints to the UI elements
• Connecting the View Controller to its code file

Met Gallery: View Controller with a Collection View

• The gallery view controller UI
• Refining the collection view
• Connecting the view controller to its respective files

Met Gallery: The Painting Detail View Controller

• Adding the UI objects to the Painting Detail VC
• Constraining the UI objects
• Adding Swipe & Tap Gesture Recognizers
• Connecting the View Controller to its code file

Final Project: Start Coding!

Week 9

Met Gallery App Part 2

Met Gallery: Full Screen View Controller with a Scroll View

• Creating the full screen painting View Controller
• Setting size classes
• Constraining the scroll view & connecting the code

Met Gallery: Adding a Spinner, Data Model, & Gallery VC

• Adding a Spinner
• Creating the data model
• Adding the Collection View methods

Met Gallery: Painting Detail & Adding Gesture Recognizers

• Loading the painting details
• Refining the Image View
• Making the online reference button functional
• Segueing to the full screen scroll view
• Adding the image to the full screen view
• Implementing the swipe gestures

Work on Final Project

Week 10

Course Wrap Up

Test Flight and Submitting to the App Store

Final Projects

Final Project Presentations