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Location: Online
Take your iOS skills to the next level with this intensive dive into performance tuning, debugging, and exploring a wide range of iOS’ frameworks and APIs.
- $2,450.00 excl.
Advanced iOS
Location: Online
Take your iOS skills to the next level with this intensive dive into performance tuning, debugging, and exploring a wide range of iOS’ frameworks and APIs.
- $2,450.00 excl.
Overview
Work with APIs from all corners of iOS in this intensive 5-day course to build faster, more stable, stand-out apps. Study a broad range of topics from animations and custom drawing to debugging and performance tuning.
Bootcamp Price: $4200
Bootcamp price includes hotel, meals, and a shuttle to and from the hotel.
In the Atlanta area? Interested in commuting to class? Contact training@bignerdranch.com to discuss commuting options and discounts.
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iOS developers using Swift with at least 6 months experience are ideally suited for this course.
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Experience working with view controllers, table views, collection views, and web services is strongly recommended.
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Create custom views, animations, and behaviors across and beyond UIKit.
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Write robust asynchronous code and understand app performance concerns.
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Use Swift together with Objective-C harmoniously in the same project.
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Explore media processing, networking, and data modeling APIs.
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Debug and troubleshoot performance and memory problems.
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Use the Combine framework to manage reactive data flows in applications.
Pre-Course Assignment
There is no pre-course assignment, so long as you consider yourself proficient enough in iOS development to create simple apps without much assistance.
Xcode and iOS
Please download the latest version of Xcode, which is necessary for the class. You can get the latest version of Xcode from the Mac App Store. iOS 12 is available as an over-the-air update for your iOS device if you’ll be bringing one. Please plan to download Xcode and run OS updates prior to arriving for class. Xcode requires that your Mac be running macOS 10.13.6 or later.
Device Provisioning
In order to get the best possible experience from the class, we recommend that you bring an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with you. Testing the apps that we write in class will be much more fun if you can see them on your device.
*We will be using iOS 12 for all examples and exercises in this class, so devices should be running iOS 12.
If you are unable to provide a device for testing, let us know so that we can talk about which bits you might miss out on.
Performance Tuning
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Design a well-abstracted, multithreaded API.
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Find and fix CPU hot spots using the Instruments tool.
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Create custom Operation subclasses for performing clean asynchronous work.
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Study thread-safety concerns and resolve them with locks using Grand Central Dispatch.
Debugging
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Find memory leaks, abandoned memory, and other problems using Instruments and the Memory Graph Debugger.
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Track down hard-to-find bugs with LLDB and other Xcode debugging features.
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Troubleshoot layout problems with the View Hierarchy Debugger.
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Write unit tests to ensure correctness of your code, and learn testing best practices.
Customizing UIKit
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Bend collection views to your will with fully-custom collection view layouts.
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Drive custom interactive view controller transition animations.
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Authenticate to OAuth2 services and store credentials in the keychain.
Architecture
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Work with the UIDocument API for modeling data in document-based apps.
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Explore wrapping legacy APIs with more modern patterns to help write safer code.
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Study reactive programming and create reactive pipelines for clean data flow management,, using the Combine framework.
Drawing & Graphics
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Draw custom views and image data using Core Graphics and UIKit drawing routines.
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Explore how animation layers are used to build stand-out graphical effects.
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Add Interface Builder support for your custom views.
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Filter and process photos with Core Image.
Interoperability
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Work effectively with Objective-C and Swift in the same project.
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Understand what does, and does not, cross the Swift/Objective-C bridge.
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What our students have to say
I did the swift and iOS bootcamp in Georgia. It was incredible and totally worth it. I had only played around and pieced together iOS apps before I went to the bootcamp. After everything made so much more sense and I was able to create and publish new iOS apps with ease.
Anna Sherman, Developer, Carbon Five
I used other online free courses to learn basic Kotlin and some advanced topics. It was nice to have the classroom setting, with the Kotlin Essentials course, to gain better-detailed knowledge. I do feel more confident with the basics of Kotlin, and I am looking forward to taking the more advanced courses.
Steve Hamilton, Android Software Engineer, Disney
I was able to start my research lab, HealthHawks, because Big Nerd Ranch gave me the skills to build software on mobile applications. I equip medical professionals with software that they test to be able to determine if it helps clinical outcomes. It is awesome. Big Nerd Ranch taught me how to change the world for the better, one line of code at a time.
Elizabeth Baker, Associate Professor of Information Systems, UNC Wilmington

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