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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
    • Who am I?
    • Structure of this book
  • Step One: Figure Out what the Big Picture Is
    • What is an iOS application and where does your code fit into it?
    • Patterns and Layers
    • Zooming Out
    • Zooming In
  • Step Two: The Interview Game
    • Before The Interview
    • At The Interview
    • Importance of Soft Skills
    • Keep Track of Progress
  • Step Three: Learn the fundamentals
    • What is let and var in Swift?
    • What is Optional in Swift and nil in Swift and Objective-C?
    • What is the difference between struct and class in Swift? When would you use one or the other?
    • How is memory management handled in iOS?
    • What are properties and instance variables in Objective-C and Swift?
    • What is a protocol (both Obj-C and Swift)? When and how is it used?
    • What is a category/extension? When is it used?
    • What are closures/blocks and how are they used?
    • What is MVC?
    • What are Singletons? What are they used for?
    • What is Delegate pattern in iOS?
    • What is KVO (Key-Value Observation)?
    • What does iOS application lifecycle consist of?
    • What is View Controller? What is its lifecycle?
  • Step Four: Get Productive with Networking
    • What is HTTP?
    • What is REST?
    • How do you typically implement networking on iOS?
    • What are the concerns and limitations of networking on iOS?
    • What should go into the networking/service layer?
    • What is NSURLSession? How is it used?
    • What is AFNetworking/Alamofire? How do you use it?
    • How do you handle multi-threading with networking on iOS?
    • How do you serialize and map JSON data coming from the backend?
    • How do you download images on iOS?
    • How would you cache images?
    • How do you download files on iOS?
    • Have you used sockets and/or pubsub systems?
    • What is RestKit? What is it used for? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
    • What could you use instead of RestKit?
    • How do you test network requests?
  • Step Five: Learn How to Store Data
    • What is the storage layer for in iOS applications?
    • What can you use to store data on iOS?
    • What is NSCoding?
    • What is NSUserDefaults?
    • What is Keychain and when do you need it?
    • How do you save data to a disk on iOS?
    • What database options are there for iOS applications?
    • How is data mapping important when you store data?
    • How would you approach major database/storage migration in your application?
  • Step Six: Go crazy responsive with UI layouts
    • What are the challenges in working with UI on iOS?
    • What do you use to lay out your views correctly on iOS?
    • What are CGRect Frames? When and where would you use them?
    • What is AutoLayout? When and where would you use it?
    • What are compression resistance and content hugging priorities for?
    • How does AutoLayout work with multi-threading?
    • What are the advantages and disadvantages of creating AutoLayouts in code versus using storyboards?
    • How do you work with storyboards in a large team?
    • How do you mix AutoLayout with Frames?
    • What options do you have with animation on iOS?
    • How do you do animation with Frames and AutoLayout?
    • How do you work with UITableView?
    • How do you optimize table views performance for smooth, fast scrolling?
    • How do you work with UICollectionView?
    • How do you work with UIScrollView?
    • What is UIStackView? When would you use it and why?
    • What alternative ways of working with UI do you know?
    • How do you make a pixel-perfect UI according to a designer’s specs?
    • How do you unit and integration test UI?
  • Step Seven: Beyond MVC. Design Pattens, Architecture, FRP, and Dependencies Management.
    • What design patterns are commonly used in iOS apps?
    • What is MVC?
    • What is MVVM?
    • What are the common layers of responsibility that an iOS application has?
    • What are SOLID principles? Can you give an example of each in iOS/Swift?
    • How do you manage dependencies in iOS applications?
    • What is Functional Programming and Functional Reactive Programming?
    • What are the design patterns besides common Cocoa patterns that you know of?
  • Bonus Chapter: Storage Evolution (AKA You Don’t Always Need Core Data!).
  • Outro
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