Contacts List (Intro to iOS Development using Swift)

This is a sample app used to introduce individuals to the basics of iOS App Development using Swift.

Use the master branch for the in-person workshop. Alternatevily, you should checkout the completed branch if you want to see the completed project.

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Workshop Topics

• Tooling (XCode, CocoaPods)
• The App Life Cycle
  • UIApplicationMain
  • App States
  • The App Delegate
• Interface Builder & View Controllers
• TableViews Overview
• Parsing JSON & API calls using URLSession Overview
• Concurrency with Grand Central Dispatch Overview (time permitting)

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Resources

• Random User Web API
• Apple Developer Documentation
• Getting started with CocoaPods
• Apple XCode Help & Guides
• Useful Shortcut for XCode 10
• The iOS App Lifecycle
• Ultimate Guide to JSON Parsing with Swift 4
• URLSession Tutorial
• Grand Central Dispatch Tutorial (part1, part2)
• A Guided Tour of Swift
• Commonly used Design Patterns in iOS (part1, part2)
• Udacity - Intro to iOS App development with Swift

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Screenshots

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Marwan Alani - 2019 - marwan@alani.ca, Twitter, LinkedIn, Website
Written for a CSHUB workshop hosted @ York University (Toronto, Canada)