Lemonbrush / My-iOS-Dev-Learning-Tracker

A log of my iOS development skills, links to useful articles, highlights and many more.

🎯 My-iOS-Dev-Learning-Tracker

Hi! This is my log of iOS development skills, resources, highlights and many more that eventially evolved into a constantly growing knowledge base
Here gethered the bare minimum you need to know to become an iOS developer. Highlighted themes are most essential topics Feel free to contribute!

🗺 iOS Developer skills Tree navigation

❇️ General notes

✊ Practical knowledge

• Pet projects
• Practice projects
• Languages
• Memory management
• Multithreading and concurrency
• SwiftUI
• Cocoa Touch
• Software Architecture
• Dependencies management
• Project structure organisation
• Version Control Systems
• Debugging
• UX
• Caching and Persistency
• Testing
• Performance optimization
• Code signing
• Tools
• Continuous Integration
• Security
• tvOS
• WatchKit
• Core ML

🧠 Computer Science knowledge

• Algorithms
• Abstract Data Types
• System design
• Programming Paradigms

🥁 Project Management knowledge

• Project Management Metodologies

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❇️ General notes

• My Skills and Experience
• References
• Useful Tools
• Useful links
  • 🧳 My main source of useful stuff
  • 🎒 Good practices
• Courses and books
• Inspiration
• Job hunt
• Command Line

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✊ Practical knowledge

Pet projects

Practice projects

Languages

• Objective-C
  • Program Structure
  • Basic Syntax
  • Data Types
  • Variables
  • Constants
  • Operators
  • Loops
  • Decision Making
  • Functions
  • Blocks
    • Memory Management
  • Numbers
  • Arrays
  • Pointers
  • Strings
  • Structures
  • Preprocessors
  • Typedef
  • Type Casting
  • Log Handling
  • Error Handling
  • Line Arguments
  • Classes & Objects
  • Inheritance
  • Polymorphism
  • Data Encapsulation
  • Categories
  • Posing
  • Extensions
  • Protocols
  • Dynamic Binding
  • Composite Objects
  • Foundation Framework
  • Fast Enumeration
  • Memory Management
  • KVC
  • KVO
  • Toll-free bridging
  • Runtime
    • Method messaging
    • NSZombies and KVO implementation
    • Swizzling
• Swift
  • The Basics
  • Basic operators
  • Strings and Characters
  • Collection Types
  • Control Flow
  • Functions
  • Closures
  • Enums
  • Structures and Classes
  • Properties
  • Methods
  • Subscript
  • Inheritance
  • Initialization
  • Deinitialization
  • Optional Chaining
  • Error Handling
  • Concurrency
  • Type Casting
  • Nested Types
  • Extensions
  • Protocols
  • Generics
  • Opaque Types
  • Automatic Reference Counting
  • Memory Safety
  • Access Control
  • Advanced Operators
  • Runtime
    • Method dispatch
  • KVO
• Swift & Objective-C work together

Memory management

• Stack and Heap
• Value vs Reference type
• MRC
• ARC
  • Weak references
• Retain cycles
• Garbage collection
• Memory leaks
• Shallow and deep copying
• Autorelease pool

Multithreading and concurrency

• POSIX and NSThreads
• Perform selector family
• GCD
• NSOperation(Queue)
• Runloop
• Synchronization
• Problems
  • Race condition
  • Deadlock
  • Readers–writers problem

SwiftUI

Cocoa Touch

• UIKit
  • UIApplication
    • States
    • UIApplicationDelegate
  • UIView
    • UITableViews
    • UICollectionViews
  • Layers
  • Layout
    • Frame-based
    • Autolayout
      • UIStackView
  • Animations
  • Transform
  • Navigation
    • Deep links
    • FlowControllers
  • UIViewController
    • Lifecycle
• Foundation
  • Notifications Delegation and Observing
  • Collections
  • Networking
  • Serialization
    • NSCoding
    • Codable
    • JSON
    • XML
    • Protobuf
• UserNotifications
• Core Location
• Core Motion
• Work in background mode

Software Architecture

• Design Patterns
  • Cocoa
    • Abstract Factory
      • Class cluster
    • Adapter
    • Command Pattern
    • Chain of Responsibility
    • Decorator
      • Delegation
      • Categories
    • Facade
    • Memento
    • Observer
    • Proxy
    • Receptionist
    • Singleton
    • Template Method
    • MVC
  • Architectural
    • MVC
    • MVVM
    • MVP
    • Clean architecture
      • VIPER
      • RIBs
    • Coordinators
  • Creational
    • Factory
    • Abstract Factory
    • Builder
    • Factory Method
    • Object Pool
    • Prototype
    • Singleton
  • Structural
    • Adapter
    • Bridge
    • Composite
    • Decorator
    • Facade
    • Flyweight
    • Proxy
  • Behavioural
    • Command
    • Chain of responsibility
    • Interpreter
    • Iterator
    • Mediator
    • Memento
    • Observer
    • State
    • Strategy
    • Visitor
  • Concurrency
    • Anti-pattern
• Design Principles
  • SOLID
  • DRY
  • KISS
  • YAGNI
  • Inversion of Control
    • Dependency Injection
    • Service Locator
  • Protocol-Oriented Programming

Dependencies management

• Cocoapods
• Carthage
• Swift Package Manager

Project structure organization

Version Control Systems

• Git
  • How to config
  • How to clone
  • How to commit
  • How to pull
  • How to push
  • How to create/change/delete/merge branches
  • How to log
  • How to reflog
  • How to resolve conflicts
  • GitFlow

Debugging

• Instruments
• Best practices
  • Checklists

UX

• Human Interface Gidelines
• Custom transitions

Caching and Persistency

• UserDefaults
• Saving files to disk (Codable)
• Keychain
• SQLite
• Core Data
• Realm
• Property Lists
• YAPDatabase

Testing

• FIRST principles
• Unit Tests
• Snapshot Tests
• Functional test
• UI Tests
• TDD (Test Driven Development)
• BDD

Performance optimization

• Increase FPS
• Decrease memory footprint

Code signing

Tools

• IDE
  • Xcode
    • Interface Builder
    • Rename project
    • Delete derived data with Xcode
• Swiftlint
• Sourcery
• Fastlane
• Charles

Continuous Integration

• Jenkins / CircleCI / Bitrise / Github Actions
• Xcode server

Security

• Keychain
• Security Transforms API
• Secure Enclave

tvOS

• Focus interactions

WatchKit

Core ML

• Model conversion
• Create ML

Augmented Reality

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🧠 Computer Science knowledge

Algorithms

• Sorting
  • Merge Sort
  • Quick Sort
  • Heap Sort
  • Counting Sort
• Graph Theory
  • Depth-First Search (DFS)
  • Breadth-First Search (BFS)
  • Minimum Spanning Tree (MST)
  • Trees
• Strings
  • Brute-forse
  • Boyer-Moore
• Greedy
• Dynamic Programming
• Bit Manipulation
• Recursion
• Game Theory
• NP Complete
• Big-O notation

Abstract Data Types

• Arrays
  • Array
  • Array 2D
• Lists
  • Singly linked list
  • Doubly linked list
  • Circular linked list
• Maps
  • Map
  • Multimap
• Hash tables
  • Hash table
  • Set
  • Hash Set
  • Multiset (Bag)
• Graphs
• Queues
  • Stack
  • Queue
  • Priority Queue
  • Double-ended priority queue
  • Double-ended queue (Deque)
  • Ring Buffer
• Trees
  • Tree
  • Binary Tree
  • Binary Search Tree (BST)
  • Heap

System design

• Problems

Programming Paradigms

• Object-Oriented
• Functional
  • Functional Reactive Programming Frameworks
    • React Native
    • RxSwift
    • RxRealm, RxDataSources
    • Combine

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🥁 Project Management knowledge

Project Management Metodologies

• Kanban
• Scrum
• Agile
• Lean
• Waterfall
• Six Sigma
• PMI/PMBOK

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😉 Feel free to text me

Mail: [e-mail]
Instagram: @lemonbrusher
Twitter: @Lemonbrusher

🙏 Acknowledgments

I was inspired by Syknapse. He does cool things! The tree is almost complete copy of iOS-Developer-Roadmap

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