What Is The iOS Apprentice?
The iOS Apprentice is a series of epic-length tutorials for beginners that each show you how to build a complete app from scratch.
Hundreds of pages of high quality content!
Detailed illustrations and explanations!
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Each new app will be a little more advanced than the one before and together they cover everything you need to know to make your own apps. By the end of the series you’ll be experienced enough to turn your ideas into real apps that you can sell on the App Store!
No Prior Experience Required!
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If you’re new to iOS and Objective-C, or to programming in general, trying to learn how to write an app can seem incredibly overwhelming. That’s why you need a guide that:
Shows you how to write an app step-by-step
With tons of illustrations and screenshots to make everything clear
In a fun and easygoing manner!
We’ll start at the very beginning. The first tutorial assumes absolutely zero programming knowledge but still shows you how to build an entire game from scratch!
The iOS Apprentice series doesn’t cover every single feature of iOS – it just focuses on the absolutely essential ones that you need to know.
Instead of just covering a list of features, the iOS Apprentice series does something much more important: it explains how all the different building blocks fit together and what is involved in building real apps.
We’re not going to create quick example programs that demonstrate how to accomplish a single feature, but complete, fully-formed apps that are good enough to submit to the App Store!
iOS Apprentice Tutorial 1: Getting Started
In the first tutorial in the series, we’ll start off by building a complete game from scratch called “Bull’s Eye”.
In the process of making this game, you’ll learn:
How to use Xcode, Interface Builder, and Objective-C in an easygoing manner.
How to use standard UIKit components
How to customize them to make them look good!
How to put the game on your iPhone or iPod touch so you can show it off to your friends.
The best part is this tutorial is a free download for when you sign up for the raywenderlich.com newsletter, so try it out to see if you like it!
We’re convinced that you’ll like this first tutorial so much that you’ll want the entire series!
iOS Apprentice Tutorial 2: Checklists
Building a to-do list app is somewhat of a rite of passage for budding iOS developers — it is one of the most popular types of app on the App Store — so it makes sense that you learn to make one as well.
While we build up the app little by little, I will introduce you to the fundamental design patterns that all iOS apps use and you’ll learn all about table views, navigation controllers and delegates. Now we’re making apps for real!
Create a simple to-do app!
You’ll learn more than just how to program with the standard iOS components — you get to see what it takes to build a quality app. We’ll go into all the little details that set great apps apart from mediocre ones. After all, you need to make a great app if you want it to be a success on the App Store.
What you’ll learn in this jam-packed tutorial:
How to use Storyboards to design user interfaces
How the Model-View-Controller design pattern works in iOS
How to use table views, including the new prototype cells and static cells capability
How to create your own data model objects
What refactoring is, why you should do it, and how to do it
How to use Navigation Controllers
Using text fields and the keyboard
Sending data between view controllers using delegates
Saving your app’s data into files in the app’s Documents folder
Using NSUserDefaults to store application settings
How to use arrays and dictionaries
How to set reminders using local notifications
How to deal with low-memory situations
And much more!
This tutorial has easy to follow step-by-step instructions, and consists of more than 200 pages and 140 illustrations! You also get full source code, image files, and other resources you can re-use for your own projects.
You can buy this tutorial individually by clicking the button below, or keep reading to buy the complete 4-tutorial bundle!
iOS Apprentice Tutorial 3: MyLocations
Building on what you’ve learned in the previous two ebooks, this tutorial goes into more depth with both Objective-C and the iOS frameworks.
The app that we will develop, MyLocations, lets you keep a list of spots that you find interesting. You go somewhere with your iPhone to obtain GPS coordinates and the corresponding street address and then save this location along with a description and a photo in your list of favorites.
Build a cool GPS, photo, and map-based app!
Of course, all of this is just an excuse to play with some of the more alluring technologies from the iOS SDK: Core Location, Map Kit, the camera and photo library, and Core Data.
What you’ll learn in this tutorial:
More about the Objective-C language
How to use the Tab Bar Controller
Using the Core Location framework to obtain GPS coordinates and do reverse geocoding
How to make your own UIView subclasses and do custom drawing
How to use Core Data to persist your objects
How to make your own table view cell objects
How to embed the Map View into your app
How to use NSNotificationCenter
How to use the camera and photo library
How to use “lazy loading” to improve the responsiveness and memory usage of your apps
How to play basic sound effects
How to make your app look more impressive with UIView-based animations and Core Animation
Just like iOS Apprentice Tutorial 2, this tutorial has easy to follow step-by-step instructions, and consists of more than 200 pages and 140 illustrations. You also get full source code, image files, and other resources you can re-use for your own projects.
You can buy this tutorial individually by clicking the button below, or keep reading to buy the complete 4-tutorial bundle!
iOS Apprentice Tutorial 4: StoreSearch
Mobile apps often need to talk to web services and that’s what we’ll do in this final tutorial of the series. We’ll make a stylish app that lets you search for products on the iTunes store using HTTP requests and JSON.
Learn how to make an app that communicates with web services!
What you’ll learn in this tutorial:
How to use a web service from your apps and how to download images
Integrating third-party libraries such as AFNetworking
View controller containment: how to embed one view controller inside another
The rules for memory management so you can use older code in your ARC-enabled apps
Showing a completely different UI after rotating to landscape
Cool effects with keyframe animations
How to use scroll views and the paging control
Internationalization and supporting multiple languages
Changing the look of navigation bars and other UI elements
Making iPad apps with split-view controller and popovers
Using Ad Hoc distribution for beta testing
And finally, submitting your apps to the App Store!
Like the other tutorials, this tutorial has easy to follow step-by-step instructions, and consists of more than 200 pages and 150 illustrations! You also get full source code, image files, and other resources you can re-use for your own projects.
You can buy this tutorial individually by clicking the button below, or keep reading to buy the complete 4-tutorial bundle!
iOS Apprentice: The Complete Series!
If you’re the kind of person who wants it all, use this link to get the entire series so far (tutorials 1-4), for a sweet bundle discount ($18 in savings!)
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Benefits of the iOS Apprentice Series
Learn how to be more than a code monkey!
Still not sure yet? Here’s some highlights of what the iOS Apprentice series will teach you:
How to program in Objective-C. Even if you’ve never programmed before or if Objective-C scares you.
How to think like a programmer. You are more than a code monkey who just punches source code into a text editor. As a programmer you’ll have to think through difficult computational problems and find creative solutions. Once you possess this valuable skill, you can program anything!
Learn the fundamentals. The iOS Software Development Kit is huge and there is no way we can cover everything — but we don’t need to. Once you understand the fundamentals, you can easily find out for yourself how the rest of the SDK works.
How to make apps look good. There is more to making apps than just programming. We’ll discuss user interface design as well as graphics techniques to make apps look better.
Learn iOS 6. Forget old outdated books and tutorials – start with the latest and greatest. In the iOS Apprentice, we will take full advantage of the latest features such as Automatic Reference Counting (ARC), Storyboards, and more.
This is not just a bunch of dry theory but hands-on practical advice. We’re going to be making real apps and we’re going to run into the same problems that professional developers run into — and solve — every day!
License
If you purchase the iOS Apprentice Series you get a license for 1 developer for the following:
You are allowed to use and/or modify the source code and art in the iOS Apprentice Series in as many apps or games that you want, with no attribution required.
The tutorials in the iOS Apprentice Series are for your own personal use only. You are NOT allowed to distribute or sell the tutorials in this guide without prior authorization.
File Formats and Delivery
The source code comes as an Xcode project and the tutorials come as HTML. Once you have purchased an iOS Apprentice Tutorial, you can access it immediately via direct download.
Prerequisites
To program for iOS, you need a Mac, so make sure you have one available before purchasing this tutorial series.
Questions?
If you have any further questions that the above description hasn’t covered, feel free to ask a question in the forums and we’ll get to you as soon as possible!
What Are You Waiting For?
With the iOS Apprentice Series, you learn iOS programming:
The right way – by getting a firm grounding on the most important technology from the ground up.
The practical way – by making real complete apps good enough to submit to the App Store!
The fun way – by following step-by-step tutorials where you create cool apps you can show off to friends!
So pick up the complete iOS Apprentice Series and get started with iOS developm
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