Designed for motivated absolute beginners, learn to code and build iOS apps by following along with an award-winning University professor as he takes you through over 100 videos, accompanied by reference material, additional exercises, and more. This full text is used with the linked flipped-class videos, and has been used by hundreds of students and improved over multiple semesters. Start from never having coded and build apps while you learn Swift and Apple's UIKit framework. You'll learn a broad set of fundamental Swift concepts from basic variables through complex API access and JSON parsing. The text also covers iOS concepts like playing sound, animation, local notifications, passing data with view controllers, working with dates, times, and time zones,, swipeable page view controllers, and more. You'll also learn GooglePlaces AutoComplete, you'll use Google Firebase to authenticate users, store Cloud Firestore data, and save images to the cloud. Your app-building journey starts today!