September 2014
Intermediate
5h 56m
English
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
Learn how to overcome several programming issues when creating apps for iOS devices with iOS 8. This video course with Vandad Nahavandipoor, based on his cookbook with the same name, walks you through 30 practical recipes for working with the iOS 8 SDK, including HealthKit, HomeKit, Core Data, and CloudKit. If you’re familiar with Objective-C or other object-oriented programming languages, you’ll also learn details for switching to Apple’s new language, Swift.
By the end of this video tutorial, you’ll pick up techniques for storing and protecting data, networking, creating vibrant user interfaces, using concurrency, working with the Address Book, and many other options.
- Get a practical and thorough introduction to Swift
- Integrate CloudKit into your apps and store information with ease
- Access user’s health-related information with HealthKit
- Interact with accessories inside the user’s home with HomeKit
- Add blur effects to your views and display alerts and action sheets
- Build custom keyboards and create a service within your app
- Retrieve and manipulate contacts and groups from the Address Book
- Perform batch updates on Core Data
- Complete a long-running task in the background
Source code can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/vandadnp/iOS-8-Swift-Programming-Cookbook
Vandad Nahavandipoor works for a leading bank in London and has led an international team of more than 30 iOS developers.
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