Big Nerd Ranch

If you’ve already mastered procedural and object-oriented programming and need a fast-paced introduction to iOS development, this course is for you. With this five-day bootcamp, you’ll be building elegant and efficient iOS apps in no time.

What You'll Learn:
- Setting up text input fields on the iPhone and move the virtual keyboard onto the screen
- Pulling data from a web service for use in an application and storing that data on the device
- How to handle touch and complex multi-touch sequences
- Properly configure your user interface to handle multiple device orientations and device rotation
- Using Auto Layout to create user interfaces that work on any device -
Using Core Data for data persistence

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Go beyond the fundamentals in our five-day Advanced Android course for experienced Android developers. You’ll learn how to prep your app for app store submission and the techniques that make your code stand out from the crowd. We’ll also teach you how to maintain your app and improve its performance.

What You'll Learn:
- Authentication with OAuth
- Handling network errors
- How to choose the right threading options
- Testing with mock responses and recorded server responses
- Simplifying your code by leveraging 3rd-party libraries
- Implementing fully custom views
- Creating custom notifications
- Signing apps, Google play release process, alpha and beta releases

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This 5-day class explores advanced iOS development topics and will teach you how to maximize the performance of your new and existing iOS applications. Prepare your brain for an influx of Swift and iOS programming knowledge.

What You'll Learn:
- Various tools for document-based and multithreaded architecture - Create iOS extensions
- Record video, process barcodes and synthesize speech using AVFoundation
- Create custom animations for transitions between view controllers
- Take advantage of unit testing
- Create your own UIs with custom Layers and Core Graphics

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Four out of every five smartphones use the Android operating system. Learn to build for this ever-present platform with our five-day introduction to Android programming.

What You'll Learn:
- Build sophisticated applications using multiple activities and fragments
- Integrate with web services using REST APIs and threading
- Effectively handle configuration changes and low memory states
- Communicate between and within Android applications
- Make your user interface shine with styles and themes
- Animate views using property animations

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If your website or web app doesn’t work on smartphones, then it simply doesn’t work. More people are using mobile devices than ever before, requiring a new approach to design and development. This 5-day course teaches you how to implement responsive, mobile-friendly layouts for your website and provides a solid foundation in programming for the browser. From the first day of class, you’ll build websites and apps that work in different browsers and on different screens, learning skills that will last beyond the next wave of devices and will survive new OS releases. Enterprise teams will find this course especially useful for building apps used in a bring-your-own-device environment.

What You'll Learn:
- Building responsive, mobile-friendly websites
- Using Bootstrap for rapid styling and how to write the code that powers your application
- Improving your site’s performance and efficiency
- Leveraging real-time data for collaborating across web and native apps
- Writing effective JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5
- Utilizing Ember.js, jQuery, and Node.js

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If you're new to iOS development and want to write applications that run on the iPhone or iPad, this course is just what you need. In just seven days, we’ll have you building your first iOS application using Swift.

What You'll Learn:
- The toolchains and the classes that make up the iOS UI framework
- Using Core Data for data persistence
- Understand application architecture and how to pass data around in your application
- Syntax, best practices and hands-on examples for functions and closures
- How Swift's native Error Handling mechanism helps you write elegant and safe code

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