UIKit for iOS 15 Part 2

Learn to Build Great Apps with UIKit

While SwiftUI may be the new, shiny framework you hear about, UIKit is still a very powerful framework to develop apps for Apple's devices. Unlike SwiftUI, UIKit has had a lot of time to mature meaning you have all the tools and resources needed to build gorgeous, visually stunning apps with this framework. In fact, UIKit powers many of the apps you see on the App Store today.

Furthermore, the primary advantage of learning UIKit in 2022 is that you'll be a viable candidate for many big companies in Silicon Valley, much of whom still rely on UIKit to this day. Learning the fundamentals of UIKit not only makes you a better Apple Developer, but also strengthens your understanding of the iOS system.

About this Course

Continuing on from the previous UIKit for iOS 15 course, this course has a heavier emphasis on some of the more nuanced features of UIKit. We’ll take a look at how to implement custom animations in UIKit and understand the differences between AppDelegate and SceneDelegate . We’ll also see how developers can quickly set up a backend for their projects with Google’s Firebase. This will allow us to easily set up an authentication system for our app, send push notifications, and load data from the Firestore database.

Furthermore, we’ll also see how to use SwiftUI inside UIKit and also be introduced to a new way of loading data into table and collection views. Finally, just as I introduced you to accessibility in the last course, we’ll see how to implement localization in our app to run with any language, test our app using Xcode Instruments, and finally, how to deploy our app to Testflight via Xcode Cloud.

Requirements

This course expects you to have some prior programming knowledge. Therefore, please make sure you have taken some of the previous courses before continuing. In this course, I am running macOS Monterey, Xcode 13.2.1, and will be testing on iOS 15.