Product Description

Getting Started!

Build iPhone, iPod and iPad apps like the pros. Start learning today with our comprehensive course for beginners and you’ll be on your way to app stardom.

Xcode is Apple’s graphic user interface for creating iPhone, iPod and iPad apps, and there is nothing it can’t do. Whether you want to build apps for yourself or build apps for clients, Xcode is a must-have tool in your toolbox.

What Will This Course Do For Me?

This course will get you started on your way to becoming a full fledged professional iPhone and iPad developer.

Professional iOS developers use Xcode every day to build the best and most lucrative apps in the app store.

Xcode for Developers

If you want to become a real iOS app developer, you need to know Xcode. Learning Xcode on your own is not only frustrating, it’s time consuming and may just drive you crazy.

This course is designed for those who don’t have the time or patience to wade through thousands of pages of technical documentation only to find that it’s too hard to understand.

I’m New to App Development – Is Xcode Hard to Learn?

No. Xcode’s graphic user interface greatly reduces the learning curve for new developers. Years ago you would have had to know programming code to build an iPhone or iPad, but not anymore.

Be confident that if you really desire to learn Xcode, you really can learn it.

Course Features

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS COURSE

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Xcode is a development environment for those who want to create Apple software and mobile apps. All the best apps you’ve seen on the market have been built with Xcode, and if you learn it, you can build great apps too. The best part about Xcode is that it has a graphical user interface. That means you can actually see what your app looks like and test its functionality as you build it.

Course Study Format
This course is delivered through ONLINE method. The course is available for you to complete at your convenience over a 12 month period.

IT Training Course Tutor Support
ALL our home study courses include step by step online training and keyword search facilities.
Our Interactive Online IT Training courses will take you step by step though your chosen eLearning courseware using show and ask training methods.
If you still have any questions regarding your online course, our technical support team are available 24 hours a day Monday to Friday.

Study Hours
This is only an approximate figure and is dependent upon how much time you can dedicate to your studies and how well you grasp the learning concepts in the course material.

Module 1: Introduction to the Course
• Course introduction
• Helpful links and references
• Downloading and installing Xcode

Module 2: Getting Down to Basics
• Using Xcode for the first time
• Interactive Simulation: Understanding the Xcode user interface
• Creating your first application
• iOS 5 walk through
• Using UI TextField and UI Buttons
• Creating and instance method
• How to hide the keyboard
• Lesson source codes

Module 3: Multiple View Controllers
• Introduction to multiple view controllers
• How to Segue with code
• Walk through of Segue and the UI Navigation Controller
• Passing data between view controllers

Module 4: Table Views
• Introduction to Table Views
• Walk through of Table Views
• Creating a dynamic UI Table View
• Editing and adding to a UI Table View
• Rearranging UI Table View cells and passing data
• Lesson source codes

Module 5: Gestures
• Introduction to gestures
• Using a pinch gesture
• Using a tap gesture
• Using a rotate gesture
• Using a pan gesture
• Using a long press gesture and UI Action Sheets
• Using a swipe gesture
• Lesson source code

Module 6: Project 1 – RPN Calculator
• Setting up your RPN Calculator
• Creating the model for your RPN Calculator
• Connecting your model and completing your app
• Reviewing your RPN Calculator
• Lesson source code

Module 7: iPad Applications
• Introduction to UI Split View Controllers
• Implementing the button dance
• Finishing up and setting up the delegation
• Lesson source code

Module 8: iOS Core Features
• Sending a Tweet with the Twitter Framework
• Twitter API source code
• Introduction to NS User Defaults
• NS User Defaults source code

Module 9: Web Services
• Setting up your UI and Properties
• Getting the JSON data from Google
• Processing and displaying the data
• Google Search API source code

Module 10: Conclusion / End of Course

Job Prospects
Become fully trained and substantially improve your chances of employment or earn more money!

Skills Assessments
Test yourself and receive a certificate online. Multiple choice or fill in the blanks style questioning helps you remember and learn.

Course Completion Certificate

*Please note, unless stated otherwise or included in package, our online courses only offer course completion certificates ( £10 fee) and in all cases official testing (at a charge made by testing centre) is required to gain officially certified recognised qualifications

Our Online IT Training Courses are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for any computer that has online access!

Unless otherwise specified, official exams are not included.