Hack iOS Development

The following checklist is a roadmap for iOS developers who want to become experts in this area. Read the Medium post to learn more.

Computer Science

• History of the computer
• Hardware
  • CPU
  • RAM
  • Storage (HDD, SSD)
• Basics of programming (Swift)
  • Constants, Variables, Data Types
  • Basic Operations
  • Strings and Characters
  • Collection Types
  • Control Flow
  • Functions
  • Basics of Algorithms
    • Efficiency (Big O and Omega Notations)
    • Search (Linear, Binary)
    • Sort (Bubble, Selection, Insertion, Merge)
    • Graphs
    • Machine Learning
  • Basics of Data Structures
    • Array
    • Queue
    • List
    • Tree
    • Hash table
    • Sets
    • Graphs
  • Memory
    • Pointers
    • Segmentation Faults
    • Dynamic Memory Allocation
    • Stack
    • Heap
    • Buffer Overflow
    • Data Structures
    • File I/O
    • Images
• Swift Language
  • Closures
  • Enumerations
  • Structures and Classes
  • Properties
  • Methods
  • Subscripts
  • 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
  • Method Dispatch
  • Advanced Memory Management (Memory Layout, Copy-on-write)
  • Async/await

iOS Platform

• Xcode
  • Project
  • Target
  • Settings, Configurations, Schemes
  • Property List Files, Nib Files, Code Files, Resources,
  • Frameworks, SDKs, and Packages
  • App Launch Process
• UIKit
  • UIView
  • UIWindow
  • UIViewController
  • Auto Layout
  • Touches
  • Gestures
• Core Graphics
  • Images,
  • Drawing
• Core Animation
  • Layers
  • Animation
• Advanced View Controllers
  • Storyboard Layout
  • Manual Layout
  • Tab Bar Controller
  • Navigation Controller
  • Page View Controller
  • Container View Controller
• Scroll View
• Table View
• Collection View
• SwiftUI
• Text
  • Label
  • Text Filed
  • Text View
  • Attributed Strings
  • Text Kit
• Controls
• Multithreading
  • Thread
  • Grand Central Dispatch
  • Operations
  • Runloop
• Notification Center
• Web View
• Modal View
• Audio
• Video
• Camera and Photo Library
• Contacts
• Calendar
• Map
• Core Location
• Persistent Storage
  • User Defaults
  • Files
  • XML, JSON
  • SQLite
  • Core Data
  • PDF
• Networking
• In-App Purchases
• User Notifications
• TCP/IP
• Sockets
• Power Management
• File System
• Security

Product Thinking

• Processes
  • Time Management
  • Communications
  • Decision Making
• Product (Economics)
  • Market Research
  • Customer Development
  • Analytics
  • Monetisation
  • A/B-testing, Experiments
  • Minimal Viable Product
• Design
  • User Experience, Human Oriented Design
  • Visual Design, User Interface Design

Resources

CS50 – one of the most popular Computer Science courses developed by Harvard University. It helps to learn basics of programming. Algorithms, data structures, memory, computational thinking, the C language and more.

Book «Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software» – a book describes how computer works. Even if you don’t have any technical background, this book will help you understand computer work.

Swift Language Guide – official documentation of the Swift language provided by Apple and Swift’s open-source community.