Work with augmented reality (AR) and the web (edX)

What you'll learn
After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Use ARKit to create augmented reality scenes and objects for your apps
• Test and debug your AR app
• Connect to web services to fetch or send info to and from your app

This course is part of the Mobile App Development with Swift Professional Certificate.

Course Syllabus

Lesson 1: User interaction and how to save data

• Write and access files within Apps;
• Serialize a data model for saving and loading data from and into Apps;
• Customise tables for adding, deleting and customising actions;
• Create custom row actions.

Lesson 2: User input and system controls in Apps

• Displaying alerts, sharing content and sending messages from within Apps;
• Access to the camera and photo library on the device;
• Build custom forms for creating new object models;
• Get complex user input through forms, data collection and dynamic table views.

Lesson 3: Construct an AR App

• Learn how to use the AR app template;
• Investigate AR components and compare their differences with existing components;
• Build AR scenes in 3D space using objects;
• Determine planes and how objects interact with them.

Lesson 4: Interact with an AR App

• Add physics to an AR scene;
• Translation of user input within the scene;
• Introduction to AR Image Recognition.

Lesson 5: Closures and Animation

• Define and use closures;
• Use defined functions: sort, filter, reduce and map;
• Utilise animation for a greater user experience;
• Use UIKit to create animations.

Lesson 6: Communicate with the Web

• Describe requests and responses, and discover how are they built, used and analysed;
• Communicate with API’s for existing data sources;
• Use URL components to dynamically query an API endpoint.

Lesson 7: An Introduction to JSON

• What is JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and how is it useful?
• Decode JSON and convert into Swift types;
• Integrate with requests and responses from API’s.

Lesson 8: Concurrency

• Why do we care about concurrency?
• Issues with multi-threading and the UI;
• How to complete tasks asynchronously.