This post is about the showing the directions to take in learning how to build iOS apps much faster. A short cut. Based from a guy who got lost lots of times!

1. apps
in learning how to build
iOS
A shortcut
January 29, 2016
Joey Rigor
Kontak Mobile Apps

2. This is not a tutorial
in iOS programming.
It’s more like showing the
directions to take in learning
how to build iOS apps much
faster. A short cut. Based from a
guy who got lost lots of times!
So, here we go.

3. Do not learn
Objective-C.
Initially, that is.
Objective-C, the iOS programming
language, is hard to understand
because of its weird symbols and
characters.
Programmers can get frustrated
even before they reach the ‘hump’.

4. This hump,
as software bloggers fondly
call, is the point in which
programming becomes fun
rather than frustrating.
Apple knew this learning
barrier and recently introduced
a new programming language,
Swift, that is friendlier than
Objective-C.

5. Read about iOS app
design.
In building a house,
you don’t start by learning how to
be a carpenter, right?

6. You start by learning
how to design,
the concepts how to build and
knowing the components that
will comprise your house.
The best way to learn all this is
from the book Obi Wan could
have written himself.

7. Apple’s
“Human Interface Guideline”
is the bible of iOS app design.

8. Apple’s
“Human Interface Guideline”
is the bible of iOS app design.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/
UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/
This book lays out the foundation of an iOS
app from UI design basics, design strategy,
iOS technologies and the UI elements that
will comprise your app.

9. It’s good reading
even for non-developers.
Makes you understand why your
favourite iOS app were designed
and built that way.
Read it, start over and
read it again.

10. Next is to learn
Xcode.
With the Interface Builder editor
in Xcode, the development
platform of iOS, you can already
create a working prototype of the
app you want to build
without writing any code.
https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

11. The Apple developer website
has a lot of sample tutorials you can
download.

12. The Apple developer website
has a lot of sample tutorials you can
download.
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/navigation/
Start with the trivial ones. Especially those
about buttons and text field controls.
Slowly level up to the big projects (views
and navigation bars).

13. Now you can learn
the language.
After getting the feel
of the design concepts and tools,
it’s now time to learn the
language of iOS.

14. Now you can learn
the language.
After getting the feel
of the design concepts and tools,
it’s now time to learn the
language of iOS.
The Apple documentation may be
a bit technical. Check out the
tutorials made by others.

15. Since there are various types
of iOS applications, just search the
topics similar to the app you wanted
to build - like customer relation,
document processing or data
analytics.

16. Another option is to
learn Swift,
the new iOS programming
language Apple is promoting.
Swift is a more readable
language and is recommended
for newbies just learning how to
program.

17. Finally, learn SQLite.
Since almost any app has some kind
of data, you should also learn SQLite,
the widely used method to save and
retrieve data in any iOS app.

18. Finally, learn SQLite.
Since almost any app has some kind
of data, you should also learn SQLite,
the widely used method to save and
retrieve data in any iOS app.
https://www.sqlite.org/about.html
SQLite is simple to learn
and has an easy to use library that
implements a small database engine.

19. There are a lot of SQLite
tutorials that lets you download the
code and test it in your machine.

20. There are a lot of SQLite
tutorials that lets you download the
code and test it in your machine.
Try to figure out how you
can use it to code your own database
saving and retrieval system.

21. When you’re serious enough,
you can join the Apple developer program.
It provides more support - software tools,
advance app capabilities, testing and even
analytics once your app is published. For
only USD 99 per year.
Good deal, huh?
Before I forget.
https://developer.apple.com/programs/

22. There you have it.
To summarise, the
shortcut in learning how to
build iOS faster are:

23. Do
not learn
Objective-
C.
Next is
to learn
Xcode.
Finally,
learn
SQLite.
Now
you can
learn the
language.
Read
about iOS
design.

24. AboutMe
As a software developer, I have always been interested
in learning new things regarding technology. In how I
can share what I’ve learned specially to others with
professions outside my field.
This interest became a passion as I see a lot of people
using technology in their daily lives but have no idea
how it works. Much less how it was build. Sadly, almost
all of us are mere consumers.
My previous blogs and those to follow will try to
convince everybody, in my own small way, to learn how
to code. How to become creators of technology.

25. http://www.kontakios.com
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