Shortcut in learning iOS
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This document outlines a shortcut approach to learning iOS app development, recommending that beginners skip Objective-C in favor of Swift, along with focusing on design principles and learning Xcode for prototyping. It emphasizes understanding iOS design through Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and suggests learning SQLite for data management. The author encourages readers to join the Apple Developer Program for additional resources and support while highlighting the importance of patience and passion in coding.
Shortcut in learning iOS
- 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 Now what? Patience, grasshopper. This is part of a series of posts about how I can convince you to be a coder. Stay tuned. To know more about our company and other blogs, just click the link below.