MPCS51030-2019-Spring-Forum

Code examples and discussion topics for iOS Development.

Session 1:

• Welcome to Swift Playground: variables, constants, type inference, iterating through arrays, functions, structs (pass-by-value)
• Commits for the Flashlight App: Welcome to XCode, Interface Builder, Constraints, @IBOutlet, @IBAction, Casting, Guard Clauses

Session 2:

• Scroll View App: In which we will save an endangered species of dragons by implementing a scroll view

Session 3:

• Podcast Picker: An app where we fetch a list of comedy podcasts and display them in a table view.

Class Activity Survey #1

Session 4:

• View Magic Guide: A tab-based guide to custom drawing, view layers, a few types of animations, and gesture recognizers!

Session 5:

• Stack View Demo: An app for demonstrating the magic of stack views

• Charting: A tab-based guide to bar charts, line charts, and pie charts using the iOS Charts library.

• Fruit Split: A split view app for looking at weird pictures of fruits.

• CocoaPodsInstallation: Example app from class code-along about installing third party libraries

• SplitViewDemo: Example app from class code-along about creating a split view controller

Session 6:

• Angry Birds: The app that Angry Birds should have been, featuring UICollectionViews and resource-efficient image networking!

• Custom Control: In which we perform exciting view pyrotechnics, review CALayers, and learn about making our own delegates.

• Spotify vs. Pandora: A Breaktime Science Experiment

Class Activity Survey #2

Session 7:

• In My Feelings Challenge: A feelings journal app whose master branch does not persist the entries. The branches user-defaults, file-manager, and core-data demonstrate how to persist data in each of those ways.

Session 8:

• Bird Feeder: An app where you can put out birdseed and receive notifications when birds arrive.
• Custom Notification App: An example setup for a customized notification alert!
• Settings Code Along: For learning about creating a setting!

Session 9:

• Favorite Things: An app with lists of some of my favorite things. We need to sort these lists, though.

• Advanced Swift Playgrounds: For exploring some new concepts in Swift!

• Our Favorite Candies: A Survey of Methodology