One of the most fundamental component of modern iOS apps is the Table View. Table Views are used everywhere from the Mail app to the Messages app. It’s a crucial part of every iOS developer’s tool belt. In this tutorial we’ll be getting to grips with Table Views, creating custom cells, and making our own cloud-based backend database. It’s going to be epic, so buckle up.
Flash Chat is an internet based messaging app similar to WhatsApp. We will be using a service called Firebase Firestore as a backend database to store and retrieve our messages from the cloud.
- How to integrate third party libraries in your app using Cocoapods and Swift Package Manager.
- How to store data in the cloud using Firebase Firestore.
- How to query and sort the Firebase database.
- How to use Firebase for user authentication, registration and login.
- How to work with UITableViews and how to set their data sources and delegates.
- How to create custom views using .xib files to modify native design components.
- How to embed View Controllers in a Navigation Controller and understand the navigation stack.
- How to create a constants file and use static properties to store Strings and other constants.
- Learn about Swift loops and create animations using loops.
- Learn about the App Lifecycle and how to use viewWillAppear or viewWillDisappear.
- How to create direct Segues for navigation.