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iOS Apprentice

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

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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.