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CodePath iOS Cliffnotes

Welcome to the open-source CodePath iOS Cliffnotes! Our goal is to become the central crowdsourced resource for complete and up-to-date iOS content and tutorials.

Motivation

Ever been frustrated finding information on outdated one-off blog posts and tutorials that has since become irrelevant? How many times were you googling only to find your answer only on a 2 year old StackOverflow post? We believe there's got to be a better way. Why not have the community work together to create useful and detailed documentation for every aspect of iOS (or any platform)? There's absolutely no reason that we should have to make do with outdated, vague or un-editable content anymore.

Read about our mission to change the way engineers learn new technologies and we would love for you to get involved! In addition, we are a fledgling startup so if you like this guide and what we are trying to do, please consider following us on twitter @thecodepath or tipping via gittip!

Courses

• Introduction to iOS for Designers - This is an introductory course to iOS that is targeted to designers.

Cliffnotes

XCode

• Creating an XCode project
• Connecting IBOutlets
• Adding Image Assets

Foundation

• Generating NSAttributedString from HTML
• Timers

Models

• Creating a Model
• JSON Parsing

Views

• Basic view properties
• Downloading an image into UIImageView
• Using UITableView
• Basic animation

View Controllers

• Introduction to View Controllers
• Setting the Root View Controller

Navigation

• Using Navigation Controllers
• Using Tab Bar Controllers
• Presenting Modal View Controllers

Events

• Working with gesture recognizers

UIKit Dynamics

• Working with UIKit Dynamics

Keyboard

• Getting the keyboard height

Dependency Management

• Installing CocoaPods

Common Issues

• Common Issues

References

• Apple official guides. These high level guides are a fantastic resource. Some good ones to read initially are:
  • Programming with Objective-C
  • iOS App Programming Guide
  • View Programming Guide
• Blogs
  • NSHipster. NSHipster is a journal of the overlooked bits in Objective-C and Cocoa. Updated weekly.
  • NSScreencast. Shows how to implement interesting things in iOS via screencasts.
  • objc. A periodical about best practices and advanced techniques in Objective-C.
  • Mike Ash's blog. There is nothing this guy doesn't know.