iOS App Production

Transform your app idea into a successful iOS application with our comprehensive iOS App Production course.

This course is essential for aspiring app developers, entrepreneurs, and anyone eager to create a successful app that stands out in the competitive App Store market. Understand every step needed to turn an idea into a working prototype, ensuring a smooth transition from concept to launch. Discover how to enhance your app's appeal with effective screenshots, testimonials, website links, customer reviews, and thorough bug fixes. Master the principles of designing an engaging and intuitive user interface, including the psychology behind design choices and the purpose of common UI elements. Learn the importance of localizing your app for different languages and cultures, and implement error handling to create a seamless user experience.

Creating a successful app requires more than just coding skills. This course equips you with essential knowledge in marketing, business strategies, and psychology, ensuring your app not only works but thrives in the market. By addressing these crucial aspects, you increase the likelihood of your app achieving its goals and gaining popularity.

​This course is perfect for aspiring app developers looking to bring their ideas to life, entrepreneurs wanting to create a market-ready app, and developers seeking to enhance their app's user experience and marketability. By the end of this course, you will have the skills and confidence to design, develop, and launch an app that stands out and succeeds in the App Store.   

Course Highlights:

• Understanding App Marketing and Development
• Understand Marketing on the App Store
• Understanding User Interface Design
• Understanding the Parts of a User Interface
• The Psychology of User Interface Design
• Elements of User Interface Design
• Creating a Prototype for an App
• App Development with SwiftUI
• Final Thoughts on Creating an App

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course, students will:

• Understand how to market an app on the App Store for better visibility and downloads.
• Know different monetization strategies to make an app profitable.
• Identify the parts of a user interface and understand their purposes.
• Know the pros and cons of various development tools for creating iOS apps.
• Learn how to use psychology to design user-friendly interfaces.
• Be able to create user interfaces using sketches, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
• Create interactive prototypes with commonly available tools.
• Learn how to design apps for different language markets.
• Feel confident in turning an app idea into a complete design, ready for a successful launch.

Course Typically Offered: Online, Winter and Summer quarters

Prerequisites: To get the most out of this course, students will need a Macintosh computer, preferably one equipped with Apple's M-series processors. Students should also be familiar with programming in Swift, designing user interfaces using SwiftUI, and Xcode.

Contact: For more information about this course, please email infotech@ucsd.edu.

Course Number: CSE-41249
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: iOS Programming

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9/24/2024 - 11/23/2024

$695

Online

Closed

• SECTION ID:

  184187

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
  You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Wang, Wallace, MS Computer Science, BS Materials Engineering

  Wallace Wang has written dozens of programming books related to iOS/macOS programming using the Swift programming language, including "Beginning iPhone Development with Swift 5," "Pro iPhone Development with Swift 5," "macOS Programming for Absolute Beginners" and "Beginning ARKit for iPhone and iPad" (all published by APress). In addition, he has taught numerous Swift programming courses to high school students through UC San Diego Extension over the past three years.

• TEXTBOOKS:

  No information available at this time.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 9/30/2024.
  

• NOTE:

• DATE & LOCATION:

  9/24/2024 - 11/23/2024
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.