Make School 2017 - Mastering iOS Development

2. MASTERING IOS
DEVELOPMENT

3. TIMELINE
Assigned Project
Week 4 - 6
Personal Project
Week 7 - 13 + Winter Break
10/12 - 10/30 11/2 - 12/31
Ship
1/4 - 1/8
Lectures

4. PREREQUISITES
Summer Academy iOS Development Track!

5. LEARNING APPROACH
Summer Academy: Step-by-step instructions on how to implement
app
Twitter Bot Project: Step-by-step challenges
Advanced iOS Course: Project Specification, Lectures,
Outside Resources, Code Reviews
→ Come up with your entirely own solution

6. LEARNING APPROACH
Lectures will give you a high-level overview (the stuff that’s
hard to Google) and introduce you to concepts and
terminology
Lectures will provide recommended reading to dive into the
details of each topic

7. COVERED TOPICS
View
Programming
Application
Development
Platform
Specifics
Tooling Architecture
Advanced
Topics
Auto Layout,
Storyboards,
System UI
Components,
Custom UI
Components,
Localization &
Accessibility
Networking,
Threading,
Persistence,
Client-Server-
Sync
Standard
Libraries,
Error Handling,
Memory
Management
Xcode,
Instruments,
Debugging,
Dependency
Management
How to structure
an iOS App,
Distributing
Information
within Apps
Automated
Testing,
Functional/
Functional
Reactive
Programming,
Anatomy of an
iOS App

8. EVALUATION

9. EVALUATION
Weekly Code Reviews for assigned project
Develop on separate branch, have master be review-ready at
any time
Feedback Form will be used to capture feedback

10. OUTSIDE RESOURCES

11. MEETUPS
Swift Language User Group
NSMeetup
Find a dozen more on
meetup.com

12. RECORDED TALKS
Recorded Talks of Swift Language User Group
WWDC 2015: Talks by Apple Engineers on topics ranging from
Swift over recent framework changes to app design
Recorded Conference Talks: Swift Summit, AltConf, 360iDev
(list of all Cocoa conferences)

13. NEWSLETTERS
iOS Dev Weekly
This Week in Swift
iOS Goodies

14. BLOGS
NSHipster
Advanced: mikeash.com/pyblog
No longer updated, still great: objc.io

15. ADVANCED BOOKS
Functional Programming in Swift
Early Access: Advanced Swift
NSHipster Book
CFHipsterRef
Effective Objective-C 2.0

16. ASSIGNED PROJECT

17. TRIP PLANNER
App that allows users to plan trips
Trips consist of multiple waypoints
Users can search for waypoints by
using the Google Places API
Waypoint locations are visualized within
a MapView

18. TRIP PLANNER
Custom API Server written in Flask
Local persistence using Core Data
Communication with Google Places API
Synchronization of Trips with Server

19. TRIP PLANNER
At the end of the project we will provide you with an example
solution!