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iOS Bootcamp Requirements

Your goal is to build an app or set of apps that incorporate the following features:

  • Interaction with an external API

    • Model serialization and deserialization from JSON
    • Demonstrable understanding of asynchronous code, including error handling
    • Bonus for: requests that are not just GET (Other CRUD?)
    • Bonus for: Authenticated requests (oAuth?)

  • UITableView

    • Should follow pattern of referencing a model collection to build UITableViewCells
    • Good understanding of delegation
    • Good understanding of dequeuing pattern of UITableViewCells
    • Bonus for: dynamic UITableViewCell height
      • Double bonus: with AutoLayout
    • Bonus for: Multiple types of cells in UITableView

  • UI

    • Views built in InterfaceBuilder with AutoLayout
      • Understanding of Target/Action, IBOutlet wiring
    • Storyboards with Segues
    • Views should look good on all iPhone sizes.
      • Bonus for: supporting multiple device orientations
      • Gratuitous use of UIScrollView
      • Programmatically modify an AutoLayout constraint
        • UIView animations with AutoLayout
    • UINavigationController
    • UITabBarController

  • Map work

    • Use MKMapView with MKAnnotations
    • Understand CoreLocation with permissions

  • Bonus for: use of Push Notifications

  • Common iOS Patterns

    • create & implement; a category, a protocol, & a delegate pattern
    • appropriate use of constants (private & public/extern)
    • understanding/implementation of NSNotificationCenter
    • understanding/implementation of NSUserDefaults

  • General

    • Understand value types vs. reference types

  • Best Practices

    • Progress should be tracked on a card wall (Trello is commonly used)
      • Spend time adding estimates to cards
    • Sensible use of dependency management
    • BDD tested code, more coverage = better
    • Commits are done in chunks of work and are not grab bag code changes
    • Pull Requests are as small as possible, adding or changing one cohesive thing
      • Good, descriptive information in Pull Request body
      • Open to feedback on Pull Requests during code reviews from coworkers
        • Try to solicit feedback from a variety of coworkers for code reviews
      • Bonus for: use of animated images in PR to demo changes Licecap
    • In general, keeping UIViewControllers as small as possible
    • Bonus for: Writing this app while using our CI

Goal is to cover most of these within a 4-6 week period

Must demo progress on Fridays at 4:30pm

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