Brief presentation on frameworks and APIs for creating an app in Swift

1. Beginning iOS
Development
with Swift

2. What you need to create
an app
• Programming language
• Frameworks / APIs
• Tools

3. What you need to create
an app
• Programming language (Swift 2.2)
• Frameworks / APIs (Apple APIs, Firebase)
• Tools (Xcode 7.3.1, also Balsamiq or Sketch if you
like)

4. Swift
safe
fast
powerful
modern
concise
expressive
functional

5. Swift
• Released in 2014 by Apple
• Intended to make writing OSX and iOS apps simpler
• Works ‘seamlessly’ with Apple’s frameworks andAPIs

6. Analogy
• How are driving and flying different?
• What are the pros and cons of each?

8. Frameworks
• Inversion of control – the framework does most
of the heavy repetitive and otherwise mundane
lifting, but it also in the driver’s seat.
• Gives you places where you can run your code.
“Don't call us, we'll call you” – Hollywood Principal

9. Frameworks and APIs
Navigation

10. Frameworks and APIs
Media / Camera

11. Frameworks and APIs
Networking
XML
JSON
HTTP
iOS Java

12. Storing files

13. Maps

14. Database on the phone …

15. GPS …

16. Xcode
“Apple's integrated development environment (IDE).
Xcode provides tools to manage your entire
development workflow—from creating your app, to
testing, optimizing, and submitting it to the App Store.”