iOS From Scratch With Swift

Are you interested in learning how to develop native applications for iOS? There's no better time to start than today. This series will teach you how to develop iOS applications with Xcode 7.1 and Swift 2.1.

Over the course of this series, I will teach you what it takes to start developing for the iOS platform with in-depth articles and tutorials. Each post will tackle a different subject, from setting up the development environment to the ins and outs of table views.

By the end of this series, you'll have a good understanding of what it takes to be an iOS developer and you'll be capable of creating your own applications from scratch. Are you excited? I know I am.

Posts in this series

iOS From Scratch With Swift: Understanding the iOS Ecosystem
Before you begin building iOS applications, it is crucial that you first understand the ecosystem. This article examines the fundamentals of Apple's...
Bart Jacobs
1 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Setting Up the Development Environment
Before we can start creating iOS applications, we need to set up the development environment. In this tutorial, I show you how to register as an Apple...
Bart Jacobs
2 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: How to Test an iOS Application on a Device
Provisioning an application for testing on a physical device or for App Store distribution can be a nightmare for beginners. Every iOS developer has to...
Bart Jacobs
3 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Creating Your First iOS Application
Even though we've already learned quite a bit in this series on iOS development, I'm sure you are eager to start building iOS applications that do something...
Bart Jacobs
4 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Swift in a Nutshell
Apple introduced the Swift programming language during its annual developer conference in 2014, much to he surprise of the developer community. The company...
Bart Jacobs
9 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: More Swift in a Nutshell
While this tutorial focuses primarily on functions and closures, we take a brief detour at the end to explore protocols and access control. We'll be working...
Bart Jacobs
10 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Exploring the iOS SDK
A good understanding of the iOS SDK is key when developing native iOS applications. Not only will it help you choose the right tools to tackle a particular...
Bart Jacobs
11 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Exploring the Foundation Framework
The Foundation framework is the bread and butter in the toolbox of an iOS developer. It provides the NSObject root class and a large number of fundamental...
Bart Jacobs
15 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: First Steps With UIKit
UIKit is the framework that you'll user most often when developing iOS applications. It defines the core components of an iOS application, from labels and...
Bart Jacobs
16 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Auto Layout Basics
In the previous article, we created a simple application with nothing more than a label and a button. Despite its simplicity, the application had a few...
Bart Jacobs
17 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Table View Basics
Table views are among the most used components of the UIKit framework and are an integral part of the user experience on the iOS platform. Table views do one...
Bart Jacobs
18 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Navigation Controllers and View Controller Hierarchies
On iOS, navigation controllers are one of the primary tools for presenting multiple screens of content. This article teaches you how to use navigation...
Bart Jacobs
23 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Exploring Tab Bar Controllers
In the previous tutorial, we discussed how a navigation controller enables the user to navigate hierarchical content or complex data by managing a stack of...
Bart Jacobs
24 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Data Persistence and Sandboxing on iOS
Persisting data across application launches is a requirement that most iOS applications have, from storing user preferences in the defaults system to...
Bart Jacobs
25 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Building a Shopping List Application 1
In the next two lessons, we'll put what we learned in this series into practice by creating a shopping list application. Along the way, you'll also learn a...
Bart Jacobs
28 Dec 2015
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Building a Shopping List Application 2
In the previous lessen, we laid the foundation for the shopping list application. In the first part of this lesson, we further refine the application by...
Bart Jacobs
29 Dec 2015
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