Today’s Goal:
- Learn about creating mobile apps for Apple devices
Today’s featured website:
- https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/– Become inspired by these Apple design award winners! These are for 2017 and the 2018 winners will be announced in June.
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
- Let’s see the most popular apps right now on Apple and Android devices.
Creating an Apple app
- Where iOS development begins: https://developer.apple.com/
- You must use Xcode on a Mac computer to create mobile apps for Apple (unlike Android).
- If you have an iPhone or iPad you can learn Swift using the free Swift Playgrounds app
- Apple apps can be created with programming languages Objective-C and Swift. Let’s check out this Swift overview here.
- Let’s watch this brief video that shows the development of a photo filtering app using Apple’s development platform, Xcode, and Swift
- Apple also has a game development framework for creating mobile games called SpriteKit.