ARHIVE - Advanced iOS App Development

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Course Overview

The goal of this class is to build a video Q&A app modeled after the Whale iOS App. We will focus on building only a subset of features of the Whale app, with a focus on netwoking, architecture and a bit of fun with video with AVFoundation.

Objectives

• Leverage advanced Swift features to architect your app
• Build common app features like networking, authentication, pagination

Competencies

Students should be able to:

• Use AVFoundation to play, record and save videos & photos
• Build an iOS app from an API specification
• Implement pagination in their projects
• Implement authentication their projects

Spec Project

Key features:

1. Download JSON, Images and Video and display them
2. Work with AVFoundation to play, edit and save video and images
3. Manage and use multiple dependencies in your project
4. Add pagination for a seamless user experience
5. Use multiple persistence technologies(Keychain, UserDefaults, CoreData) to save user data

Course Schedule

• Week 1

  • Project Overview
  • App Architecture
  • Dependency Management

• Week 2

  • Distributing Information
  • Elegant Error Handling
  • Networking Overview

• Week 3

  • Layout Essentials
  • Working with AVFoundation - Playing videos
  • Generics - Functions, Protocols & Enums

• Week 4

  • Working with AVFoundation - Recording Video & Audio
  • Working with AVFoundation - Editing Video & Audio

• Week 5

  • Project completion/ wrap-up

Evaluations

To pass the course, students will have:

1. Finished the baseline features of the project
2. Attempted 20% of the optional features

Resources

API Endpoints

Resource	Endpoint	Request Type	URL Parameters	Body	Body Type	Needs Authorization Header	Description
Get Users	https://whale2-elixir.herokuapp.com/api/v1/users	GET	per_page: Intpage: Int	-	JSON	False	Fetches all Users
Create User	https://whale2-elixir.herokuapp.com/api/v1/users	POST	-	email: String first_name: String last_name: String password: String username: String image_url: Optional - File	JSON/ Multipart	False	Creates a User. If the image_url is passed in with a file, the profile photo of the user is uploaded as well
Login User	https://whale2-elixir.herokuapp.com/api/v1/sessions	POST	email: String password: String	-	-	False	Login a User
Get Answers	https://whale2-elixir.herokuapp.com/api/v1/answers	GET	per_page: Intpage: Int	-	-	True	Fetches all Answers
Get Answer Comments	https://whale2-elixir.herokuapp.com/api/v1/answers/**answer_id**/comments	GET	per_page: Intpage: Int	-	-	True	Fetches all comments for an Answer
Get Answer Likes	https://whale2-elixir.herokuapp.com/api/v1/answers/**answer_id**/likes	GET	per_page: Intpage: Int	-	-	True	Fetches all likes for an Answer
Create/Upload an Answer	https://whale2-elixir.herokuapp.com/api/v1/questions/**question_id**/answers	POST	-	video: File thumbnail: File	Multipart	True	Creates an Answer; uploads the answer video and thumbnail
Get My Questions	https://whale2-elixir.herokuapp.com/api/v1/questions	GET	per_page: Intpage: Int	-	-	True	Fetches all questions for a logged in User
Create Question	https://whale2-elixir.herokuapp.com/api/v1/questions	POST	-	receiver_id: Intcontent: String	JSON	True	Creates a question for a User(receiver)

Sample PAW & Postman files (Right-click and save)

Paw File - Link

Postman File Link

Icon set

Icons - Link