CMSI 2022
Mobile Application Development
Spring 2023
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Brightspace: Where you can access private content and check your grades
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We will use
GitHub Classroom
to manage and submit assignments
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Every now and then we may use
Socrative
to ask or answer questions as a class—my Socrative room is
DONDILMU
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We continue to live in very fluid and dynamic circumstances—make sure to
follow
the university’s pandemic portal
for the latest news, updates, and policies—to which this class must, of
course, adhere
Assignments
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Assignment 0208
Standalone mobile app
Setup
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Use
Swift Playgrounds
to get started with the Swift programming language
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Take the
Introducing SwiftUI tutorial
to completion (note the estimated time—this does fit the
expected workload between the start of class to the due date)
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Follow the
Unifying your GitHub and Xcode repositories instructions
to merge the Xcode project with the GitHub Classroom repo
- Morph the tutorial code into your own “list of stuff” app
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Assignment 0315
Generic API-backed mobile app
Setup
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Assignment 0412
Firebase-backed mobile app
Setup
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Unlike APIdex, BareBonesBlog does not work right out of the
box! To introduce you to Firebase, you will need to follow the
instructions in the README—to be walked through in class—in order to
get it up and running
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The
Firebase website
is of course the authoritative site for all things Firebase
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The non-web aspects of
Dr. Toal’s Firebase
page provides additional background and links
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Firestore, which is one of the databases available for use with Firebase, is
an entire subsystem in itself. In addition to its main website, a
Getting to Know Cloud Firestore
YouTube playlist is available
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Assignment 0503
Your own mobile app
Setup
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Dr. Toal’s
Project Ideation
page adds structure to an otherwise open-ended process
Course Content and Useful Links
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Clean code notes
from Dr. Toal
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Swift/SwiftUI development (to download and install)
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git warmup/refresher:
This link gives you
a repository with notes and documentation about git and GitHub,
authored by GitHub. You can also use that repository to practice
git commands
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Their phone, their rules:
iOS Human Interface Guidelines
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Developer documentation and resources from the mother ship
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Third-party iOS development resources—these are great supplements,
but just note that they may not be completely up to date. This stuff
changes fast, so be aware of when a resource got published
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Stanford University was one of the first universities to offer formal
training in iOS (hey they’re Stanford), and
some of that content
is available publicly
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Hacking with Swift
offers a range of tutorials and recipes for both learning and getting
specific things done
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Kodeco
(formerly raywenderlich.com) hosts both free and subscription
content
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Cocoa Dev Central
is likelier to be outdated than not, but there may still be some
focused tidbits here that will help