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Curated list of articles, web-resources, tutorials and code repositories that may help you dig a little bit deeper into iOS. 📚

iOS-Learning-Materials

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Curated list of articles, web-resources, tutorials, Stack Overflow and Quora Q&A, GitHubcode repositories and useful resources that may help you dig a little bit deeper into iOS. All the resources are split into sub-categories which simlifies navigation and management. Feel free to use and suggest something to learn (iOS related of course 😜).

You may see some non-directly related topics such as Computer Graphics, Machine Learning or Design Patterns - these are actually related, in some ways, to iOS development, but in a much broader and more specific way. With the addition of new materials, the structure of the document will be properly maintained meaning that it will become a reference book for learning. Happy evolving 🤓

Contnet

• About
• ARKit
• Vision Framework
• CoreML
• SceneKit
• SpriteKit
• Metal
• AVFounation
• ReplayKit
• CoreLocation
• MapKit
• CocoaPods
• Clean Code
• App Distribution
• Frameworks Development
• Git
• Asynchronous Programming
• Architecture And Design Patterns
• Asset Catalog
• Playgrounds
• UIKit
• Core Animation
• Swift
• HealthKit
• Computer Graphics
• iOS Development
• Machine Learning
• Design

ARKit

Reading

• ARKit by example
• ARKit getting started
• ARKit with multiple users
• ARKit hide objects behind walls
• ARKit introduction
• How do you attach an object to your camera position with ARKit Swift?
• The Essential Guide To UX For AR
• How I'm Learning ARKit
• ARKit + Vision: An intriguing combination
• Using ARKit with Metal
• Bike ride with ARKit: How I built it
• iOS ARKit Tutorial: Drawing in the Air with Bare Fingers
• Augmented Reality With ARKit For IOS
• ARKit Super Mario Brothers

Resources

• Hand-picked curation of the coolest stuff made with Apple's ARKit

Documentation

• ARKit Official Documentation
• Understanding augmented reality
• Building a Basic AR Experience
• Displaying an AR experience with Metal

Code

• Lava Project
• Example App with horizontal planes and physics cubes
• Example App that allows to draw in 3D space
• Shooter App
• Fully interactable Tic Tac Toe App
• Line drawing App
• Example by Apple that demostrates how to place virtual objects in augmented reality
• Classic Tetris App
• Cubes in Space
• AR Trees
• Create an anchor on the QR marker plane
• This is an ARKit project that demonstrates drawing out a 3-dimensional box in the world, which can be rotated and resized from each of its faces
• Demo project demostrating how to build a AR measurment instrument
• Simple AR game made with ARKit and SpriteKit. Follow the tutorial at the Pusher blog
• MeasureThings
• Combines the high accuracy of AR with the scale of GPS data.
• ARPaint
• ARKit Occlusion
• Shell Game built with ARKit and SceneKit
• Lovely Augmented Reality Charts for iOS

Video

• Learn how to place objects in the world such as a cube and cup using ARKit, we go over the basics of ARKit
• Swift ARKit (Augmented Reality) Tutorial

Vision framework

Reading

• iOS 11 Tutorial: Vision framework
• Core ML and Vision: Machine Learning in iOS 11 Tutorial
• Native Machine Learning and Machine Vision in iOS 11
• Swift World: What’s new in iOS 11 — Vision
• Using Vision Framework for Text Detection in iOS 11
• Getting Started With Vision Framework
• FACE AND FACE’S LANDMARKS DETECTION USING VISION FRAMEWORK IN IOS 11

Code

• Face Cropper: Crop faces, inside of your image, with iOS 11 Vision api.
• Hello Vision: Vision framework example
• iOS11 demo application for flower classification
• iOS11 demo application for dominant objects detection

Video

• Super Impressive and Easy Face Detection using Vision API in Swift 4

CoreML

• Core ML and Vision: Machine Learning in iOS 11 Tutorial
• Native Machine Learning and Machine Vision in iOS 11
• IOS Introduction to Core ML: Building a Simple Image Recognition App
• Creating a Simple Game With Core ML in Swift 4
• A Beginner’s Guide to Core ML Tools: Converting a Caffe Model to Core ML Format
• Apple Machine Learning Journal
• iOS 11: Machine Learning for everyone
• Bringing Machine Learning to your iOS Apps 🤖📲
• Pros and cons of iOS machine learning APIs

SceneKit

• Physically Based Rendering Using the New iOS 10 SceneKit
• How to get the real position of a sub node in SceneKit after rotation?
• Transfer global to local node position in SceneKit
• SCNNode
• 3D with SceneKit
• The math behind transforms
• SceneKit game architecture
• How to rotate object in a scene with pan gesture - SceneKit
• Introduction To SceneKit – Part 1
• Introduction To SceneKit – Part 2
• Introduction To SceneKit – Part 3
• Custom SceneKit Geometry
• An Introduction to SceneKit: User Interaction, Animations & Physics
• Drag SceneKit Node Along X-Axis while maintaining velocity? Swift 3
• Scene Kit
• Rotate SCNCamera node looking at an object around an imaginary sphere
• Position a SceneKit object in front of SCNCamera's current orientation
• SceneKit Tutorial - From Zero to Hero Part I
• How to set up SceneKit collision detection
• SCNNode Bounding size and Scaling: Changing Size Of Physics Boulding Volume
• How to convert 2D point to 3D using SceneKit's unprojectPoint without having a depth value?
• SceneKit cube rotation with multiple UIPanGestureRecognizers
• SceneKit Cocoa Adding decals
• How To Add Objects In SceneKit Swift
• How To Turn Off Metal and Enable OpenGL Rendering in SceneKit

Video

• Building a Game with SceneKit
• Advances in SceneKit Rendering
• Enhancements to SceneKit

SpriteKit

• Using SpriteKit to create animations in Swift
• SpriteKit and Inverse Kinematics with Swift
• SpriteKit with Swift: Orienting Sprites to a Location
• Drag and Drop Sprites
• An Introduction To Building A SpriteKit/UIKit Hybrid App
• How To Make A Game Like Color Switch with SpriteKit and Swift
• How To Make a Game Like Cut the Rope Using SpriteKit and Swift
• iOS 7 Sprite Kit: Setting Up Correct Scene Dimensions

Shaders

• Understanding Shaders in SpriteKit
• Making a Pixel Shader for iOS8 with Sprite Kit
• Fragment Shaders with SpriteKit
• SpriteKit shaders

Video

• Gesture Recognizers with SpriteKit
• iOS Swift Game Tutorial: SpriteKit Space Game (with Explosions)

Metal

• What’s the big deal with Apples Metal API?
• Metal Tutorial with Swift 3 Part 1: Getting Started
• Metal Tutorial with Swift 3 Part 2: Moving to 3D
• LiquidFun Tutorial with Metal and Swift – Part 1
• LiquidFun Tutorial with Metal and Swift – Part 2
• How do I pixelate a scene with SceneKit and Metal, in Swift?
• Instanced Rendering in Metal
• Custom Metal Shaders
• A few SCNTechnique examples
• Textures and Samplers in Metal
• An Introduction to 3D Graphics with Metal in Swift
• A Brief Tour of Metal

Reosurces

• Metal By Example: High-performance graphics and compute programming for iOS

Code

• SceneKit mesh deformed by a Metal compute shader
• 3D Graphics with Scene Kit

AVFoundation

• Building a Full Screen Camera App Using AVFoundation

ReplayKit

Reading

• iOS 9: An Introduction to ReplayKit
• Screen Recording Your App Using iOS ReplayKit for Bug Reporting
• ReplayKit
• How to record user videos using ReplayKit
• IOS 8 iPad App Crashes When UIActivityViewController Is Called

Video

• Going Social with ReplayKit and Game Center

CoreLocation

• Magnetic Heading sample code for iOS

MapKit

• MapKit Overlay View

CocoaPods

• Installing the same Pod for multiple targets

Clean Code

• Keeping View Controllers skinny and weakly-connected to models
• Five sighns of code smell
• Managing View Controllers With Container View Controllers
• Avoiding Massive View Controllers by refactoring.

App Distribution

• Cannot generate iOS App archive in xcode

Frameworks Development

• An Introduction to Creating and Distributing Embedded Frameworks in iOS
• Creating iOS/OSX Frameworks: is it necessary to codesign them before distributing to other developers?

Git

• A successful Git branching model
• Introducing GitFlow
• Git-flow cheatsheet
• Branching
• Git - the simple guide

Asynchronous Programming

• Comparative Asynchronous Programming
• Reducers: Dealing With Asynchrony

Architecture And Design Patterns

Overview

• Design Patterns on iOS using Swift – Part 1/2
• Design Patterns on iOS using Swift – Part 2/2

Async

• Chaining Async Requests in iOS

Protocol-Oriented Programming

• Introducing Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift 3
• Introduction to Protocol Oriented Programming in Swift
• How Protocol Oriented Programming in Swift saved my day?

Promise

• Promises in Swift: Asynchronous Promises: Proof of Concept in Swift
• Promise Pattern on Swift with PromiseKit And why you should migrate your async calls to them
• Under The Hood Of Futures And Promises In Swift

Redux

• Introduction to ReSwift that is a small framework that helps you to create Redux-like architectures in Swift

Coordinator

• An iOS Coordinator Pattern

Resources

• iOS Architecture Patterns. Demystifying MVC, MVP, MVVM and VIPER

Flow

• [iOS] Flow: Make your logic flow and data flow clean and human readable

VIPER

• Architecting iOS Apps with VIPER

MVC

• Looking at Model-View-Controller in Cocoa
• Do MVC like it’s 1979

MVC-N

• MVC-N why did use it instead of MVC traditional

MVVM-C

• MVVM-C with Swift
• MVVM-C A simple way to navigate
• UIKonf 2016 – Day 1– Steve "Scotty" Scott – MVVM-C In Practice

MVVM

• MVVM in Swift
• An Introduction to the MVVM Design Pattern
• Swift and ModelView-View-Model in Practive
• Sample application using MVVM in Swift
• MVVM in Swift
• Introduction to MVVM
• MVVM is Not Very Good
• Simplification Of IOS View Controllers: MVVM Or Presentation Controls?
• On MVVM, and Architecture Questions
• MVVM and Coordinator Patterns Together

Delegate

• Why you shouldn’t use delegates in Swift

Multicast Delegate

• Multicast Delegates in Swift
• Multicast on Swift 3 and MVVM-C
• GitHub Code Example

Monad

• Monad Functional Programming
• Monads in Swift
• Functor and Monad in Swift

Delegate

• Lightweight iOS View Controllers
• Apple’s Take on App Architecture
• Fluent Pagination - no more jumpy scrolling
• AdvancedCollectionView
• iOS: UITableView controller
• Nestable
• Advanced UITableViews Made Simple: YLTableView
• Typed, yet Flexible Table View Controller
• Complex table view state changes made easy

Asset Catalog

• Asset catalog changes in Xcode 9

Playgrounds

• Adding Playgrounds to Xcode Projects

UIKit

Storyboards

• Storyboards Tutorial for iOS: Part 1
• Storyboards Tutorial for iOS: Part 2

UIKit Dynamics

• UIKit Dynamics in Swift 2.0
• Creating a Magnetic Effect Between UI Components
• Attachment Behaviour Tutorial in iOS8 with Swift
• How to make custom UIView animations with UISnapBehavior and UIDynamicItemBehavior
• UIKit Dynamics Guide

UISearchController

• UISearchController Tutorial: Getting Started

Collection View

• Custom UICollectionViewLayout with Parallax

Stack View

• UIStackView Tutorial: Introducing Stack Views

Auto Layout

• Adaptive Layout Tutorial in iOS 11: Getting Started
• Auto Layout Tutorial in iOS 11: Getting Started

UI & Design

• Replicating Apple Design Awarded Applications

Haptic Feedback

• Creating an Immersive User Experience with Haptic Feedback in iOS
• Haptic Feedback makes you vibrate!

Touches and Gestures

• UIGestureRecognizer Tutorial: Getting Started
• Dragging Views with Gestures Tutorial in iOS8 with Swift
• Detecting user touch of UIView inside of UIScrollView
• How To Rotate a 3D Object Using Touches with OpenGL
• Event Handling Guide for UIKit Apps
• UIGestureRecognizer Getting Started

Notifications Framework (Local & Remote)

• Introduction to User Notifications Framework in iOS 10
• Basic Push Notifications in iOS 10 and Swift
• Push Notifications Tutorial: Getting Started
• Local and Remote Notifications Overview

Apple Pencil

• Apple Pencil Tutorial: Getting Started

Animations

• What’s New In UIKit Animations In Swift 4
• Creating Great Animations On iOS
• Building a declarative animation framework in Swift — Part 1
• Building a declarative animation framework in Swift — Part 2
• Prototyping Animated Transitions in Swift
• Prototyping Animations in Swift #1
• Prototyping Animations in Swift #2

Transitions

• Fantastic iOS Transitions Collection
• iOS Animation Tutorial: Custom View Controller Presentation Transitions
• Creating Custom UIViewController Transitions
• INTERACTIVE TRANSITIONS
• View Controller Transitions #1
• View Controller Transitions #2)
• View Controller Transitions #3
• View Controller Transitions

Custom Components

• Creating a 3D Tag Cloud

Core Animation

• CALayer Tutorial: Getting Started
• How To Implement A Circular Image Loader Animation with CAShapeLayer

Swift

Associated Types

• Swift: What are Protocols with Associated Types?

Standart Protocols

• Identifying Objects In Swift
• JSON to Swift with Decoder and Decodable

KVC

• Struct References

Error handling

• Error Handling (Swift 3)
  • https://blog.bobthedeveloper.io/intro-to-error-handling-in-swift-3-edb2ce6a6668
  • https://news.realm.io/news/slug-marcus-zarra-exploring-mvcn-swift/

Encoding and Decoding

• Encoding and Decoding in Swift 4
  • https://medium.com/compileswift/encoding-and-decoding-in-swift-4-f82114897862
  • https://github.com/ole/whats-new-in-swift-4/blob/master/Whats-new-in-Swift-4.playground/Pages/Encoding%20and%20decoding.xcplaygroundpage/Contents.swift
  • https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/archives_and_serialization/encoding_and_decoding_custom_types
  • http://benscheirman.com/2017/06/ultimate-guide-to-json-parsing-with-swift-4/

Properties

• Lazy Initialization with Swift
• Using lazy properties in Swift
• Swift Lazy Initialization with Closures
• Stored Properties In Swift Extensions

KVO and Bindings

• Bindings and KVO alternatives
  • http://blog.scottlogic.com/2015/02/11/swift-kvo-alternatives.html
  • http://rasic.info/bindings-generics-swift-and-mvvm/
  • http://five.agency/solving-the-binding-problem-with-swift/  

Other

• Swift + Keywords (V 3.0.1)
• What’s New in Swift 4 by Example

HealthKit

• HealthKit Tutorial With Swift: Getting Started
• HealthKit Tutorial with Swift: Workouts

Computer Graphics

Rendering

• BASIC THEORY OF PHYSICALLY-BASED RENDERING
• PHYSICALLY-BASED RENDERING, AND YOU CAN TOO!
• Volumetric Rendering
• Volumetric Rendering: Raymarching
• Volumetric Rendering: Surface Shading
• Volumetric Rendering: Signed Distance Functions
• Volumetric Rendering: Ambient Occlusion
• Volumetric Rendering: Hard & Soft Shadows
• Volumetric Rendering: Volume Raycasting

Graphics Pipeline

• A trip through the Graphics Pipeline

OpenGL

• OpenGL & GLSL Tutorials
• opengl-tutorial
• Learn OpenGL

Ray Marching

• Ray Marching and Signed Distance Functions
• How do Raymarch shaders work?
• Free Penumbra Shadows For Raymarching Distance Fields

iOS Development

• 14 must knows for an iOS developer
• On-Demand Resources in iOS Tutorial
• Learning Techniques for Programmers, by Programmers
• Projecting A Dynamic Decal onto a 3D Mesh

Machine Learning

Reading

• Keras: The Python Deep Learning library
• SET-UP YOUR MAC FOR DEEP LEARNING WITH PYTHON, TENSORFLOW AND KERAS
• Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation
• Getting started with TensorFlow on iOS
• Apple’s deep learning frameworks: BNNS vs. Metal CNN
• Convolutional neural networks on the iPhone with VGGNet
• Getting Started with Deep MNIST and TensorFlow on iOS
• Use TensorFlow and BNNS to Add Machine Learning to your Mac or iOS App
• Develop Your First Neural Network in Python With Keras Step-By-Step
• Keras Tutorial: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Deep Learning in Python
• Keras Deep Learning with Apple’s CoreMLTools on iOS 11

Code

• Code exmaple uses TensorFlow to train a basic binary classifier on the Gender Recognition by Voice and Speech Analysis dataset
• "Hello world" in keras
• TensorFlow on iOS demo

Tools

• Anaconda - is the world’s most popular and trusted data science ecosystem.
• TensorFlow - An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence
• Caffe - Caffe is a deep learning framework made with expression, speed, and modularity in mind
• Keras - Deep Learning library for Python. Runs on TensorFlow, Theano, or CNTK.
• coremltools is a python package for creating, examining, and testing models in the .mlmodel format.
• 5 Genius Python Deep Learning Libraries

Videos

• Deep Learning: Keras Short Tutorial
• Integrating Keras & TensorFlow: The Keras workflow, expanded (TensorFlow Dev Summit 2017)
• Deep Learning Frameworks Compared

Design

• App Design & Development Conference
• 9 Major UI mistakes that will kill your Apps!
• The ultimate guide for mobile developers, who want to design.