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Answers to basic app problems using Swift.

SWIFT Exercises

Like strumming a guitar or painting on Adobe Illustrator, I always learn more through exercises. This collection is organized by theme and aims to explore how to to port Objective-C solutions for SWIFT. As a mobile app producer, I find that any app I build requires me to think about: users, money, marketing, measurement, product design + performance, and customer support. I've opted to organize my exercices using this lose structure.

###User registration and authentication As a mobile producer, if you want provide your users with a customizable, personalized experience, you'll need a Back-end as a Service of soem sort)

• Parse: Basic Parse examples of Register, Log in, Log out
• Firebase: Coming Soon

###Money Although there are dozens of ways to make money (Jude Gomila's list, Crowdsourced List), advertising –or underwriting for you not-for-profit friends– is still a sucessful model (Flappy Success, Quora Ad mathematics)

• Heyzap: Heyzap is great because it allows me to use Admob, Applovin, Facebook Ad Network and iAds through a single SDK.
• Yahoo Flurry AD banner: Simple Banner Ad, Simple Interstitial Ad
• iAD: Simple Interstitial Ad

###Measurement Measuring your app is any developer's first key step towards Management.

• Flurry: Yahoo's Flurry analytics is very good at logging events.
• Google Analytics: Coming Soon.

###Product Design User experience is the holy grail for digital progress. The only way we, as a humanity, will move beyond the Windoew's era is to invest all the computational power (new devices are promising) back into user interface and design.

• UIX: Throttle-like GUI.

###Product Samples As a new student of SWIFT, I found these simple examples were successful in helping me quickly learn XCode and SWIFT.

• HTTPRequests: This is a cleaner, more organized approach to GET, POST, and Download requests.
• ActionSheet: A simple ActionSheet example.
• AlertView: Basic AlertView example
• Countdown: Basic 30 second countdown example.
• POSTRequest: Plan, vanilla POST requests.
• ProteinTracker: Example of a calculator

###Games

• Flappy Clone: Flappy Birds clone.
• Basic Quiz: Simple question-based quiz

###Product Performance Any mobile producer will tell you that performance is a big deal when it comes to creating a successful user experience. Concurrency is a big topic so I gave it its own /folder.

• Simple Dispatch Queues
• Operational Queues

###Music My first music app was developed in 2010 so it's safe to say I'm a music tech producer. The collection of exercices here are simply aimed at getting me to script-bridge my brain to SWIFT.

• AudioPlayer: Vanilla MP3 player.
• iTunesQuery: Search for something through iTunes API and package the results.

###Marketing What makes the Internet better than print or broadcast is that there's a two-way interaction. OK, fine, reality-tv sort of captured the essence of "average people entertaining other average people" but Social Media is a better extension. Some call it peer-to-peer, others call it "platform" but all these exercices attempt to do is help devs learn how to authenticate their apps using oAuth2.

• Facebook Integration: Coming soon
• Twitter Integration: Coming soon

###Internationalization

• Convert Local Calendar: Calculate calendar times for different countries.

###TODO

OpenGL
Sprite Kit
Scene Kit
Accelerate
Game Kit
Advertising
Newsstand
Printing
Security
Accessibility
Telephone
Pass Kit
Health Kit
External Accessories
Handoff
Core Data
REST / HTTP Network

Files
Networking
Threading 
Undo
Views
View Controllers
Sound
Video
Users libraries 
Mail
Maps
Device sensors