COSC2471

SWIFT 2.0 and the Apple iOS SDK will be used as a basis for teaching programming techniques and design patterns related to the development of standalone applications and mobile portals to enterprise and m-commerce systems. Emphasis is placed on the processes, tools and frameworks required to develop applications for Apple iPhone and iPad Touch devices. It is required to consider the impact of user characteristics, device capabilities, networking infrastructure and deployment environment, in order to develop software capable of meeting the requirements of stakeholders.

The assessment tasks were about developing an iOS Application that is divided into 2 stages:

Assignment 1: Design the wireframes and layouts of the whole application. Define and clarify the steps of user interaction with the app. To do that, students must have in mind the specifications of the kind of app that they would be developping.

• The designs and implementation of the UIs must conform to Apple Design Guidelines.
• The app must have at least 5 relevant screens, which are all adaptive to different display sizes (iPhone 6 Plus, iPod, iPad...)
• The layouts will be developed in XCode with all of the interactions being completed.
• Data can be hard-coded at this stage, the focus is primarily on UI designs and user interactions.

Assignment 2: Extend assignment 1 to add the logic to the app.

• Any added screens to the current UI design must also be adaptive.
• The features are up to students to decide what they wish the app to do. But there must be at least 5 of the following required specifications, bonus marks were given if students developed an apps with more than 5 required features:
  • The app comes with an extension (notification, today, custom keyboard, custom actions...).
  • The app comes with data persistent (quite easy to achieve).
  • The app comes with remote data access (I was using FireBase to implement this feature).
  • At least 5 unittests of any selected components.
  • Implementation of an iOS/Cocoa Framework (video/audio streaming, AR, Camera, Bluetooth, Map, Graphics...).
  • Apply a design pattern in implementation (MVC, MV-VM...).
  • A complete working feature that was not presented in lecture (I did the advertisement feature of 4 types).

By completion of this app, thanks to the suggestions and judgements of the lecturer, I understand the structure of an iOS application. I was learnt about MV-VM pattern, and can apply MVC pattern in designing the structure of my program. I have the ability to research further to develop a more complex iOS app.