Slides from the Dallas App Developers April 2015 Meeting.

1. Dallas App Developers, WELCOME!
How to Make an
iPhone App in 90 Min.
by Nick Culbertson

2. Getting Started
What you will need:
Xcode
Mac Computer
Apple Developer Account ($99 per year)
LLC and DUNS Number (if filing as a business)
An idea and some code

3. Complete iOS Toolkit
• Push Notifications
• Banner Ads (Admob)
• In-App Purchases
• Rate This App
• Getting & Storing Cloud Data (JSON)
https://github.com/NickCulbertson/Complete-iOS-
Toolkit (Example of each feature implemented)

4. Push Notifications
❖ Why should you use them?
Alert the user of new content or updates
Remind & Incentivize the user to use your app
❖ Local vs. Remote Notifications

5. Push Notifications - Local
❖ Steps to Implement:
Create a developer and distribution certificate and
provisioning profile enabled with push notifications
using your app bundle name
Get Users Permission
Create Notification
Schedule Notification

6. Banner Ads (Admob)
❖ Why should you use them?
Monetize App
Incentivize IAP Premium Upgrade

7. Banner Ads (Admob)
❖ Steps to Implement:
Create a Google Admob account
Create a new Ad ID for your app
Add Google Admob framework & dependancies
Create Ad Banner with your Ad ID

8. In-App Purchases (IAP)
❖ Why should you use them?
Monetize App
Incentivize users to keep using your app
❖ Consumable vs. Non-Consumable

9. In-App Purchases (IAP)
❖ Steps to Implement:
Setup an In-App Purchase on iTunesConnect
Create a Sandbox Apple ID to test the IAP
Code In-App Purchase into App
Include a “Restore” button

10. Rate This App
❖ Why should you use them?
People forget to rate, even if they use it frequently
Better search ranking with better ratings

11. Rate This App
❖ Steps to Implement:
Implement iRate from GitHub by Nick Lockwood
https://github.com/nicklockwood/iRate

12. Cloud Data Storage (JSON)
❖ Why should you use it?
Update content without updating app
Easily Edited
JSON files are small

13. Cloud Data Storage (JSON)
❖ Steps to Implement:
Implement Complete iOS Toolkit from GitHub
https://github.com/NickCulbertson/Complete-iOS-
Toolkit

14. *Bonus* Developer Resources
❖ Art
❖ pixabay.com
❖ unsplash.com
❖ opengameart.org
❖ iConify - OS X App Store
❖ creativemarket.com
❖ graphicriver.com
❖ launchkit.io
❖ Code
❖ GitHub.com
❖ codecanyon.com
❖ Google & YouTube
❖ CocoaPods
(Google “raywenderlich cocoapods”)