App Development With Swift

Projects, playgrounds, and notes made while following along with Apple's book App Development With Swift.

Project Portfolio

Unit	Project	Topics Covered	Progress
1 - Getting Started	Light: A minimalist flashlight app 🔦	Xcode, Interface Builder, and connecting outlets and actions between them	✅
2 - Intro to UIKit	Hello: An app for introducing someone.	Configuring views in Interface Builder :::: Customizing labels :::: Customizing image views	🚧
2 - Intro to UIKit	Auto-Layout Calculator	Using nested vertical and horizontal stack views to display a calculator that fits lays out cleanly across size classes	✅

Unit	Project	Topics Covered	Progress
2 - Intro to UIKit	Apple Pie: A hangman-style word guessing game	Building a game interface with nested vertical and horizontal stack views :::: Responding to events and updating complex interfaces based on game state changes	✅

Unit	Project	Topics Covered	Progress
3 - Navigation and Workflows	Traffic Segues	Using programmatic and Storyboard-based segues to construct multiple levels of view transitions :::: Reading segue identifiers :::: Different segue animations.	✅

Unit	Project	Topics Covered	Progress
3 - Navigation and Workflows	Login	Using programmatic and Storyboard-based segues to orchestrate a login page flow.	✅
3 - Navigation and Workflows	Rainbow Tabs	Relating a TabBarController to child view controllers and customizing the tab bar button icon for each	✅
3 - Navigation and Workflows	Life Cycle	Debugging and viewing the lifecycle events of view controllers as they're called between two transitioning controllers	✅
3 - Navigation and Workflows	Mythical Creature Personality Quiz	View Controller Containment :::: Encapsulating views in nib :::: communicating game state across controllers and transitions :::: More fun with stack views, Auto Layout, and interface controls 😀	✅

Unit	Project	Topics Covered	Progress
3A - Building AR Apps with Xcode	Surface Coater	Detecting vertical and horizontal planes in the world :::: Overlaying different colored planes on differently aligned surfaces	✅
3A - Building AR Apps with Xcode	AR Shots: Shooting hoops with AR Objects and tap detection	Translating user taps into real-world positions :::: Placing 3D objects when discovered planes are selected :::: Adding physics to an AR scene :::: Positioning new objects relative to the camera's current position.	✅
3A - Building AR Apps with Xcode	AR Image Finder: Designing a treasure hunt game based upon pre-loaded reference images	Enabling image detection :::: Specifying which images to locate in the physical world :::: Responding to the discovery of an image :::: Performing simple animations with SceneKit objects	✅
3A - Building AR Apps with Xcode	AR Drawing: Allow users to choose SceneKit shapes and models from menus and place them in their own scene.	Creating nodes from primitive shape settings :::: Loading nodes from a directory of `.scn` files :::: Changing rendering logic according to user control settings :::: Removing previously added nodes to "Undo" actions	✅
4 - Tables and Persistence	Emoji Dictionary	Creating grouped table with data sources and static tables via Storyboards :::: Allowing add/edit/delete functionality in a grouped table	✅

Unit	Project	Topics Covered	Progress
4 - Tables and Persistence	Hotel Europa: An app for hotel staff to register guests.	Building custom, intuitive, user-friendly forms to create new model objects and/or track important information. :::: Using custom protocols to pass data between view controllers. :::: How and when to use certain controls for collecting data. :::: Dynamically resizing table view cells.	✅

Unit	Project	Topics Covered	Progress
5 - Leveraging the Web	MusicWireframe: Wireframe of the Apple music app to implement button and player image animations.	Animating as a response to user interaction	✅

Unit	Project	Topics Covered	Progress
5 - Leveraging the Web	ContestEntry: Animate based upon the current state of a form.	Animating a text field — or seguing if it has text	✅

Unit	Project	Topics Covered	Progress
5 - Leveraging the Web	NASA Astronomy Photo of the Day: Displaying information from the NASA APOD API.	Building out a networking layer for asynchronously loading data. :::: Transforming raw `Data` into models and using them in views. :::: Using loading spinners to provide network activity feedback to users	✅

Unit	Project	Topics Covered	Progress
5 - Leveraging the Web	iTunes Search API: Allow users to search the iTunes Search API for different media types and view their results in a table view.	Using `UISearchController` and scopes for filtering requests. :::: Architecting networking logic :::: Debouncing search tasks to allow for continuous typing in a search bar. :::: Updating the size of the URL cache to temporarily save images.	✅

Unit	Project	Topics Covered	Progress
5 - Leveraging the Web	Restaurant Menu: An interactive menu for a restaurant that allows the customer to view a list of offerings, add items to an order, and submit the order to the restaurant.	Modeling data returning by a server API :::: Architecting networking logic :::: Lazilly fetching images from URL information :::: Maintaining "cart" state in a state controller :::: Dependency-injecting state controllers :::: Communicating loading events using NotificationCenter :::: Saving and restoring application state across app loads	✅