Learn iOS App Development in 14 Days

iOS app development is one of the most sought after skills today.

But learning how to build apps without a plan leads to certain failure.

This 14 Day Beginner Challenge gives you the exact learning plan to gain the core skills for iOS app development.

It’s for absolute beginners and it’ll help you get results without wasting time. Ready to get started?

Note: This article is part of a larger journey. To see the Table of Contents, click here.

Did you know that this 14 Day Beginner Challenge is just the tip of the iceberg? Inside CWC Plus, you’ll continue the training with advanced training and resources. Click here to learn more!

Did you know that this 14 Day Beginner Challenge is just the tip of the iceberg? Inside CWC Plus, you’ll continue the training with advanced training and resources. Click here to learn more!

Day 1:

The Apple Developer Ecosystem
We’ll begin our app journey by taking a look at the Apple Developer Ecosystem.

These are all the tools and services Apple gives us to empower us to build apps for their platform. Ultimately, this is the workflow that we’ll use to get our apps into the App Store.

We’ll go through that process and break down all the tools you need in this lesson.

Day 2:

Introduction to Xcode
In this Xcode tutorial, you’ll get familiar with the development environment where you’ll build apps in. I’ll show you where to get Xcode and how to start a new App project. Then we’ll walk through the major areas of Xcode. I’ll explain to you what each of the files in your new project is for and we’ll end the lesson with some tips on navigating around in Xcode.

Day 3:

How to Build User Interfaces
In this lesson, I’ll show you how to use Xcode to build user interfaces with SwiftUI.

We’ll start by learning how to preview the app so that we can see what the user interface looks like. Then I’ll demonstrate how to use Xcode to visually construct the user interface, or UI for short.

Day 4:

SwiftUI Views and Containers
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use a variety of essential user interface elements and containers.

In the next lesson, I have some challenges for you. There’ll be a few user interfaces that I want you to try building by yourself for practice. This will really help you get the hang of using Xcode!

Day 5:

War Card Game UI
In this lesson, we’ll walk through building the War Card Game user interface..

Day 6:

Swift Programming: Variables and Constants
In this lesson, you’ll learn about the app lifecycle which includes retrieving and processing data, rendering the UI and handling user interaction. More importantly, you’ll see how Swift code puts this cycle in motion and keeps it going.

You’ve already seen what Swift code for the user interface looks like. In this lesson, you’ll begin to learn how Swift code is used to keep track of the data in your app!.

Day 7:

Swift Programming: Functions
In this lesson, you’ll learn about functions which helps organize and group together your code statements so that:

#1: all the code in a function can work together to serve a specific purpose. #2: you can run a group of code statements by calling the function

Day 8:

Swift Programming: Structures
In this lesson, you’ll learn about the basics of Structures in Swift. You’ll also learn about the properties and methods that live inside your structure. Also, you’ll learn how, depending on where you write your code, the scope of a property or method can change. Finally, you will learn about computed properties.

Day 9:

Swift Programming: Instances
This lesson is going to be the final piece of the puzzle. I’m not saying that you’re the master of Swift but at the end of this lesson, you’ll see how all of your code works together inside of an app.

Day 10:

SwiftUI Buttons
Let’s get back to SwiftUI and views. In particular, today I want to dive into the SwiftUI Button view.

Day 11:

State Properties
In the last lesson, you learned about the SwiftUI button and how to handle user interaction. However, in order to change the data and affect the UI, we need to learn about State properties and that’s what this lesson is all about.

Day 12:

Swift Programming: If Statements
In this lesson, you’ll learn a new Swift construct that will allow you to write code that says, if this, then that. This easy to use but powerful syntax will allow you to express logic at a whole new level.

Day 13:

Wrap Up Challenge
To solidify what you have learned in this module, try to build the app shown in this video. You can join us in the CodeCrew forum for help or to show off your app!

Day 14:

What’s Next?
The 5 things you can do next to continue your app journey!