iPhone App Development: Create a Spotify Clone

iPhone App Development: Create a Spotify Clone, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.4, with 49 lectures, based on 255 reviews, and has 12308 subscribers.

You will learn about Create a fully featured music streaming app on iOS Create a fully functioning server to store music Connect server to app using PHP scripts This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner/Intermediate programmers should take this course or ABSOLUTE beginners who know nothing about programming SHOULD NOT take this course (take my other one instead!) or People that want to make profitable streaming apps should take this course It is particularly useful for Beginner/Intermediate programmers should take this course or ABSOLUTE beginners who know nothing about programming SHOULD NOT take this course (take my other one instead!) or People that want to make profitable streaming apps should take this course.

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Summary

Title: iPhone App Development: Create a Spotify Clone

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.4

Number of Lectures: 49

Number of Published Lectures: 48

Number of Curriculum Items: 49

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 48

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Create a fully featured music streaming app on iOS
Create a fully functioning server to store music
Connect server to app using PHP scripts

Who Should Attend

Beginner/Intermediate programmers should take this course
ABSOLUTE beginners who know nothing about programming SHOULD NOT take this course (take my other one instead!)
People that want to make profitable streaming apps should take this course

Target Audiences

Beginner/Intermediate programmers should take this course
ABSOLUTE beginners who know nothing about programming SHOULD NOT take this course (take my other one instead!)
People that want to make profitable streaming apps should take this course

Music is one of the biggest app categories across all app stores. They have the potential to earn substantial revenue.

Learn the basic concepts, tools, and functions that you will need to build fully functional iOS music streaming apps with the popular programming language, Swift 2. Also learn how to set up your own server and upload music that your app will eventually play.

Things You’ll Learn

Xcode Installation and Setup
Basic Streaming Functions on iOS
How to Setup a Server (free or paid)
How to Automate Music File indexing on a Server Using PHP (no PHP experience necessary)
How to Make an iOS App Communicate with a Server
How to Add Lock Screen Controls
How to Add Lock Screen Media Information
How to Handle Audio Interruptions like Phone Calls
How to Create Table Views and Custom table View Cells on iOS
Dynamically Adding More Data to Your App and Remote Database
Sharing Song Information on Facebook
Liking a Track Through our Remote Database

Powerful Skills at Your Fingertips
By learning to create both iOS apps as well as PHP and MYSQL backends you will become incredibly valuable to potential employers. Combining these 2 skills is the number one reason developers get hired for startups. Those startups need this information and are willing to pay for it!

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Not only do you learn the ins and outs of streaming music in iOS apps but this course includes a MASSIVE bonus. I teach you how to create and setup a fully functional server that does the following:

Automatically scan for new music uploads and add them to a MYSQL database (with no input required from you)
Produce PHP files that allow your app to access a backend

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Content and Overview
No knowledge is needed of programming for this course but it helps. If you are a complete beginner then please take my other course (iOS Apps for Complete and Utter Beginners) FIRST.

You will be taken on a journey through:

How to choose between free or paid servers
How to code a simple streaming function on iOS
How to add advanced audio features to your app
How to make your app talk to a server (aka – creating a backend)
How to report app usage statistics to your remote database

This course establishes a strong understanding of music app creation concepts and includes training on Xcode and Swift 2. It also includes training on MYSQL, PHP and cPanel. Each chapter starts with an introduction and sounds out with a summary to help you learn even better.

With these skills mastered, the course will take you through how to create a backend for your app (as well as the front end!). Complete this course and you’ll discover you now have skills that are continuously in demand from most businesses.

Increase your value by joining now!

Credit: Promo music provided by Ben Sound

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction and Environment Setup

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Setup Xcode and iOS Simulators on a Mac

Chapter 2: Server Setup and Testing

Lecture 1: Introduction to Server Setup

Lecture 2: Should You Choose a Free or Paid Server?

Lecture 3: Option 1: Setting up a Free Server

Lecture 4: Option 2: Setting up a Paid Server (Much More Control)

Lecture 5: How to Upload Your Files to a Server

Lecture 6: Create Your Server Database Using cPanel

Lecture 7: Create a PHP Script to Add Uploaded Music to the Database – Part 1

Lecture 8: Create a PHP Script to Add Uploaded Music to the Database – Part 2

Lecture 9: How to Automate a PHP Script Using Cron

Lecture 10: Summary of Server Setup and Testing

Chapter 3: A Really Simple iOS Music Streaming Function

Lecture 1: Introduction to Simple Streaming

Lecture 2: Setting up our Project in Xcode

Lecture 3: How to Disable App Transport Security on iOS

Lecture 4: How to Create a Simple Streaming Function in iOS

Lecture 5: Tidying up our Swift Streaming Player by Moving to its Own Class

Lecture 6: Summary of Really Simple iOS Music Streaming Function

Chapter 4: Adding Some Sugar to our Simple Streaming Function

Lecture 1: Introduction to Advanced Audio Features on iOS

Lecture 2: Adding a Play Pause Button to a Storyboard for Media Control

Lecture 3: Connecting a Play Pause Button to Streaming Music Controls

Lecture 4: How to Implement Lock Screen Controls on iOS

Lecture 5: How to Handle Audio Interruptions on iOS

Lecture 6: How to Add Lock Screen Media Information on iOS

Lecture 7: Summary of Adding Sugar to Simple Streaming Function

Chapter 5: Getting a List of Music from the Remote Database

Lecture 1: Introduction to Getting a List of Music From the Database

Lecture 2: How to Create a PHP Interface to the MYSQL Database

Lecture 3: How to Fetch Remote Database Information into an iOS App

Lecture 4: Creating our Song Class to Store Retrieved Items

Lecture 5: How to Parse Retrieved Data into a List of Songs

Lecture 6: Summary of Getting a List of Music fom the Remote Database

Chapter 6: Placing Retrieved Song Lists into a Table View

Lecture 1: Introduction to Placing Retrieved Song Lists into a Table View

Lecture 2: How to Create a Table View and Custom Table View Cell on iOS

Lecture 3: How to Populate a Table View with Data

Lecture 4: Firing up Our Music Player Whenever a Song is Selected

Lecture 5: Homework: Tidy up the Song Name to Remove the MP3 Ending

Lecture 6: Summary of Placing Retrieved Song Lists into a Table View

Chapter 7: Taking the App to the Next Level – More Data

Lecture 1: Introduction to Taking the App to the Next Level – More Data

Lecture 2: Adding in Artist Information to our Database and App

Lecture 3: Reporting Number of Plays to our Database – Necessary for a Streaming License

Lecture 4: Summary of Taking the App to the Next Level – More Data

Chapter 8: Taking the App to the Next Level – Liking and Sharing

Lecture 1: Introduction to Taking the App to the Next Level – Liking and Sharing

Lecture 2: Adding a Like Button for the Current Playing Song

Lecture 3: Adding a ‘Share on Facebook’ Button – Social Media Rocks!

Lecture 4: Summary of taking the App to the Next Level – Liking and Sharing

Chapter 9: Summary and Roundup

Lecture 1: Summary of Everything You’ve Learnt so Far

Lecture 2: Where to go Next (How to Make Money From this Sort of App)

Lecture 3: Thankyou and a Special Gift Just For You

Instructors

Grant Klimaytys
Software Engineer and Investor

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 11 votes
2 stars: 9 votes
3 stars: 32 votes
4 stars: 59 votes
5 stars: 144 votes

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