Getting Started: macOS Apps with SwiftUI (The Course)
Course Info
This course includes 1 attempt.
What you will learn
- Preparation for macOS Development
- Building 4 projects step by step, ranging from easy to difficult.
- macOS Development and SwiftUI Basics
- How to prepare for app launch
- How to publish apps
Who can join
This course assumes you are new to macOS app development with SwiftUI, not necessarily new to programming in general. If you have prior programming experience in other languages, it should be easier to follow the steps in the course.
Why choose this course
- Hands on example projects
- Exercises and quiz tailored for the course to reinforce learning
- Valuable tips and insights shared by an experienced developer
- All tutorials are based on the latest Xcode 15, up-to-date with the newest tools and features
Course Material
- Introduction
- End Goal
- Prerequisites
- Assumptions
- Code Examples
- Suggestions
- Chapter 1: Getting Started
- Mac Computer
- Install Xcode
- Apple Developer Program Membership
- Exercise
- Exercise 1
- Chapter 2: Building A Number Randomizer
- Requirements for This App
- Creating a New SwiftUI Project
- Playing With the Starter App
- Diving Deep into
ContentViewcode - Creating the Main User Interface
- Adding the Click Logic
- Styling the UI
- Full Code
- Potential Future Development
- Exercise
- Exercise 2
- Chapter 3: Building A Windowless Screenshot App
- Requirements For This App
- Creating A macOS App
- Creating A Status Bar Icon
- Creating a Menu with multiple menu items.
- Removing the Main Window
- The Screenshot App on Mac
- Call Screenshot from App
- Full Code
- Potential Future Development
- Exercise
- Exercise 3
- Chapter 4: Building A Photo Fetching App
- Requirements For This App
- Creating A macOS App named
SimplePhotos. - Preparing Network Calls to Fetch Photos
- Creating User Interface
- Full Code
- Potential Future Development
- Exercise
- Exercise 4
- Chapter 5: Building A Note-taking App
- Requirements For This App
- Creating A macOS App named
NoteTaking. - Playing With the App
- Diving Deep into
ContentViewcode - Designing the Data Model
- Reading Core Data from
ContentView - Adding New Entry to NoteEntry Entity
- Updating Note Entries
- Deleting Note Entries
- Final Clean-up
- Full Code
- Potential Future Development
- Exercise
- Exercise 5
- Chapter 6: macOS Development and SwiftUI Basics
- Views
- View Instance Methods
- Managing States In SwiftUI
- Core Data
- SF Symbols
- Exercise
- Exercise 6
- Chapter 7: Preparing For Launch
- Adjust the Minimum OS Version
- App Icon
- Localization
- Exercise
- Exercise 7
- Chapter 8: App Store
- Version Management
- Uploading to App Store
- Exercise
- Exercise 8
- Chapter 9: Self-Distribution
- Notarize
- Generating Installer
- Making App Available For Download
- Exercise
- Exercise 9
- Conclusion
- Contact Me
- Other Resources
- Final Quiz
- Quiz 12 attempts allowed
Instructors
Grace Huang is an ex-founder with a successful exit. She was a software engineer at several big tech companies, including Amazon and Bloomberg.
She writes about startups, entrepreneurship, investing, software and hardware engineering, manufacturing, and lifelong learning.
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