This is a companion project to The App Brewery's Complete App Developement Bootcamp, check out the full course at www.appbrewery.co
Created a chat app similar to WhatsApp, while using a service called Firebase Firestore as a backend database to store and retrieve our messages from the cloud. Also used Table Views, created custom cells, and made a cloud-based backend database.
- How to integrate third party libraries in the app using Cocoapods and Swift Package Manager
- How to store data in the cloud using Firebase Firestore
- How to query and sort the Firebase database
- How to use Firebase for user authentication, registration and login
- How to work with UITableViews and how to set their data sources and delegates
- How to create custom views using .xib files to modify native design components
- How to embed View Controllers in a Navigation Controller and understand the navigation stack
- How to create a constants file and use static properties to store Strings and other constants
- Learned about the App Lifecycle and how to use viewWillAppear or viewWillDisappear
- How to create direct Segues for navigation
