iOS Apprentice

Projects, playgrounds, and other material made while following along with the Ray Wenderlich book iOS Apprentice.

Project Portfolio

BullsEye

A game testing the user's ability to drag a slider the a specific number.

Topics Covered & Challenges Conquered

• Sliders, labels, and other common UIKit controls.
• Building responsive interfaces that adapt to all screen sizes.
• Responding to UI events and updating state as a result.
• Designing and integrating custom artwork into a view.

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Checklists

List of lists with scheduling support and reminder notifications... Table Views and To-Do on steroids.

Topics Covered & Challenges Conquered

• Table Views and more table views.

• Designing deep navigation flows, utilizing segues and protocols to communicate and handle actions along the way.

• Handling UITextFieldDelegate events to dynamically enable/disable submission buttons.

  

• Registering and managing local notifications for instances of checklist items.

• Architecting an app data model.

• Using user documents to saving and load data across application instances.

• Using UserDefaults to saving and load user preferences and app view state across application instances.

• Using a custom global theme color.

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My Locations

An app that uses Core Location to fetch the user's current GPS coordinates, allowing them to "tag" a current location and add custom information to it. Additionally, these tagged locations are displayed as pins on an interactive map.

Topics Covered & Challenges Conquered

• Using Core Location: Fetching the user's current location, checking reading accuracy, handling errors and permissions, creating CLLocation and CLPlacemark models from location readings, etc.

• Using Core Data: Designing fetch requests, using NSFetchedResultsController with table views, persisting changes, caching, configuring dynamic blob storage for images, and more.

• Integrating enums properties with Core Data entities.
• Using Core Animation to present a richer launch experience.
• Integrating sound effect to confirm completion of long-running background operations.
• Creating custom art and imagery for animations.
• Creating custom theme colors for light and dark mode.
• Creating/configuring custom theming and appearance settings.
• Using a tabbed view controller with the coordinator pattern.
• Creating custom, interactive map view pins and annotations.

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Store Search

An app that searches and surfaces content provided by the iTunes Search API.

Topics Covered & Challenges Conquered

• Building a networking stack to perform various searches against the iTunes Search API.
• Building dynamic views with Collection View Compositional Layouts and Diffable Data Sources.
• Debugging with exception breakpoints.
• Custom Presentation Controllers with custom transition animations 💥.
• Stretchable Images via image slicing.
• Supporting Dynamic Type.
• Localizing an app using thoughtful string definition architecture and the various l10n tools that Xcode provides.
• Implementing a Split View Controller-based presentation that adapts to iPads and iPhones in landscape and portrait orientation 💪.

• Dynamic Sizing based upon size classes.
• Distributing app to the App Store via App Store Connect.