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.