Create generic iOS app and integrate a library

[SebastianZimmeck]

As we discussed today, to get started with iOS development @bella-tassone and @ekuller will be creating a basic iOS app written in Swift and push the code to this repo. The steps are:

1. Getting the tools setup, in particular, Xcode
2. Use an Xcode template to write a basic app per below. Maybe, this tutorial is helpful (I have not checked in detail but at cursorily glance it could be what you want)
3. Once the app is finished, integrate a library. AdMob (via the CocoaPods package manager is probably the easiest; once we create our library we can also distribute it via CocoaPods)

One important part is also to get familiar with Git and GitHub. I am including a few slides from my class on using GitHub. Ideally, one of you, @bella-tassone or @ekuller, would push a first start here and we go from there ...

@kalicki1 will be helping out a bit here as well ...

Uploading 2_Command_Line_and_Version_Control.pdf…

[SebastianZimmeck]

Also, @ekuller brought up the question whether URL schemes are helpful for our purposes. Per Apple's documentation:

A URL scheme is the part of a link that specifies the type of application your device uses to open a URL.

So, basically, a URL scheme tells the device to use the pdf app for pdf URLs, etc. As such this functionality does not seem to relate to our question. However, @ekuller, maybe you had something different in mind?

[ekuller]

My thinking was that we could use a custom url scheme that would allow the canOpenURL(_:) method to return true when run in a different app. I was thinking this might be a way to share a simple boolean value with other apps from our app. However, I don't know how useful or legit this would be. It was just something I came across that I thought might be useful.

[ekuller]

Universal links also seem like they could be helpful. The linked article mentions using them to communicate across apps.

[SebastianZimmeck]

@ekuller, I opened a separate issue as there are probably a few more things to say and look into on this topic beyond being a side issue to this one. We can continue the discussion over there.

[SebastianZimmeck]

@ekuller and @bella-tassone, please push any code that you want to keep related to this issue (it is OK, if none), then we tag the repo at this moment in time, and move on to Android.