Students have basic knowledge of programming and use of development environments, frameworks for mobile IOS smartphones.

Physics fundamentals, mobile application development 1, software engineering 2

The course includes the following main topics:

• Development Tools, iOS Developer Program, Xcode
• Life cycle, classes, objects, methods, messaging
• Logs, Categories, Blocks, Properties
• Design Patterns: Model-View-Controller, Delegation and Protocol, Target-Action, Notification Center, Key-Value Observing
• Foundation: NSObject, Memory Management, Primitive Values, Collections, Mutability, NSString, NSNumber,
• ViewController: Basics, Segues, Navigation View Controller, Table View Controller
• Practical exercises

The following basic literature will be used in the course:

• M. Neuburg, Programming iOS 10: Dive Deep into Views, View Controllers, and Frameworks, O'Reilly, 2016;
• G. Vaish, High Performance iOS Apps, O'Reilly, 2016;
• M.Kofler, Swift 3: The Comprehensive Practice Book. Developing apps for iOS, macOS and Apple TV. Rheinwerk Computing, 2016;
• K. M. Rodewig, C. Wagner, Apps programmieren für iPhone und iPad, Galileo Computing, 2014;

Lecture, group work and moderated exercises

Final grade comprised of

• Class participation,
• Exercise Documentation,
• Partial or final examination