Today’s goal:
- Start looking at mobile app creation for Apple devices
Today’s featured app:
- Finger Spinner– A digitized version of the fidget spinner
All About iOS
- What do you have in your pocket? Android or iPhone? Which do you prefer? Why?
- What do you already know about Apple devices?
- What would you like to know?
- Questions for you (at your tables):
- What is the name of the software for Apple mobile devices (phones and tablets)?
- Who makes Apple hardware (the actual phones and tablets)?
- What’s more popular, iPhones or Androids?
- Which has more apps available, iPhones or Androids?
- How do you create an app for an Apple device? What software application do you have to use and what languages are used to program Apple apps?
- Is it easier or harder to get an app into the Apple app store or the Android app store? Why?
- Which phones tend to cost more, iPhones or Androids?
- The first iPhone launched in 2007. Let’s look at an illustrated history of iOS.
- Let’s look at the latest innovative designs for Apple devices
- Did you know? All of 2016’s top mobile apps are owned by either Google or Facebook! Let’s also look at what’s hot right now on Apple and Android devices.
Creating an Apple app
- Where iOS development begins: https://developer.apple.com/
- Let’s watch this brief video that shows the development of a photo filtering app using Apple’s development platform, Xcode, and Swift
- Learn Swift, Apple’s programming language used to create iPhone and iPad apps. You will use an app called Swift Playgrounds and will follow tutorials in there.
- Did you know Apple has a game development framework for creating mobile games called SpriteKit?
- Other option: design an app prototype. Go to fluidui.com and sign up for a free account. Then create a mobile wireframe of either an app you like (re-create it) or an app concept of your own.