Build Instagram to Master Swift 4 and Firebase

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Start Here

Lecture 1: Get Familiar with Xcode

Lecture 2: Update Code to Swift 4

Lecture 3: Add Sign In Scene

Lecture 4: Add Sign Up Scene.

Lecture 5: Add Auto Layout and StackView

Lecture 6: Add TabbarViewController

Lecture 7: Customize TabbarViewController and add NavigationViewController

Lecture 8: Storyboard References Part 1

Lecture 9: Storyboard References Part 2

Lecture 10: Customize Sign In, Sign Up Scenes

Chapter 2: Email Sign Up and Log In with Robust Error Checking.

Lecture 1: Introduction Firebase, and How to Integrate Firebase SDK to Our App

Lecture 2: Authentication with Firebase – Sign Up New Users part 1

Lecture 3: Authentication with Firebase – Sign Up New Users part 2

Lecture 4: Authentication with Firebase – Sign Up New Users part 3

Lecture 5: Authentication with Firebase – Validate TextField

Lecture 6: Authentication with Firebase – Signing In User

Lecture 7: Log Out and Auto Sign In.

Lecture 8: Best Coding Practices 1: Create Modular Services for Specific Tasks.

Lecture 9: Dismiss Keyboard and Show Authentication Progress.

Chapter 3: Share Posts

Lecture 1: Design The Camera Tab.

Lecture 2: Upload Photos to Firebase and Design Efficient Database: Don't Include Users in

Lecture 3: Share posts.

Chapter 4: New Feeds

Lecture 1: Start Building The News Feed

Lecture 2: Grab Post Data from Firebase Database: Don't Show Data on Views Directly.

Lecture 3: Model – View – Controller (MVC): Build A Model to Encode Post Data.

Lecture 4: Best Coding Practices 2: Construct a Good Model.

Lecture 5: Design the Home View.

Lecture 6: Show Fake Data on News Feed and Use Dynamic Cells to Display Long Content.

Lecture 7: Efficiently Display Real Post Data on the News Feed: A Model-View-Controller App

Lecture 8: Show User Profiles on News Feed: The Inefficient Way That Everyone Teaches You

Lecture 9: Shows User Profiles On News Feed: A Scalable Way That Everyone Fails to Teach Yo

Lecture 10: Enhance User Experience: Show A Loading Indicator.

Chapter 5: Comment

Lecture 1: Design The Comment View: Add Table View to Show Comments.

Lecture 2: Design The Comment View: Add Comment Input Text Field and Send Button.

Lecture 3: Send Comments: Design Scalable Comment Databases.

Lecture 4: Tie Up Posts and Comments on The Database The Right Way: Scalably.

Lecture 5: Fast and Efficiently Display Comments for A Single Post.

Lecture 6: Show Keyboard, Type Comments, Hide Keyboard, and All That.

Lecture 7: Fast and Efficiently Display Comments for ANY Post.

Lecture 8: Best Coding Practices 3: Write Your Own APIs to Conveniently Observe Data.

Chapter 6: Like Posts The Scalable Way: We Can Let Thousands of Users Like A Post at The Sa

Lecture 1: Like Posts: The Common (and NOT Scalable) Database Design That Every

Lecture 2: Like Posts: The Unscalable Way Everyone Copying from Each Other.

Lecture 3: Like Posts: A Scalable Way That No One Was Able to Teach You.

Lecture 4: Improve The Like Feature: Smoothly Update Like When Scrolling View.

Chapter 7: Design Profile View and Display User Information

Lecture 1: Design and Auto Layout a Good Looking Profile View.

Lecture 2: Feed Fake Data to The Profile View.

Lecture 3: Best Coding Practices 4: Views Should Not Work With Database.

Lecture 4: Who Post What? Efficiently Design Matching Database and Retrieve Posts for Users

Lecture 5: Display Posts on User Profile, and Arrange Them Nicely.

Lecture 6: Best Coding Practices 5: Factor Your Code Completely with Model-View-Controller.

Chapter 8: Follow, Unfollow, and All That

Lecture 1: Discover Users to Follow: Design a Clean UI.

Lecture 2: Discover Users to Follow: Efficiently List Discovered Users

Lecture 3: Follow and Unfollow A User: Start with A Good Database Design.

Lecture 4: Follow and Unfollow The Right Way: It's All About Talking To Your Database.

Lecture 5: Observe Database Properly to Smoothly Update Follow States When Scrolling View.

Chapter 9: Like and Follow The Best Way: An MVC Approach.

Lecture 1: A Clever Trick to Update Follow and Unfollow Information.

Lecture 2: Smartly Update Like Information.

Chapter 10: News Feed: Show Your Posts and Those by Followed Users

Lecture 1: It's All about Cleverly Designing A Good Database.

Lecture 2: Your News Feed Is Then Merely A Projection of Your Feed Database.

Chapter 11: SearchSearch

Lecture 1: Build Search View and Get Search Text for Realtime Query.

Lecture 2: Search As You Type: Realtime Query Users.

Lecture 3: Search As You Type: Display Research Results on View in Realtime.

Lecture 4: Check Out User Profile When Tapping Username

Lecture 5: Best Coding Practice 6: Writing Self-contained Code with Protocol and Delegate

Chapter 12: Everything You Need to Know about Visiting A User Profile

Lecture 1: Who Is This? Visit User Profiles From Home, Comment, and Search Views.

Lecture 2: Follow and Unfollow Users in Their Profiles. Be careful. Other Place

Lecture 3: Grab and Display Post Count, Following Count, and Follower Count in Realtime.

Chapter 13: Setting

Lecture 1: Design a Nice Looking Setting View.

Lecture 2: Retrieve and Display User Information on Setting.

Lecture 3: Edit User Profile The Right Way.

Chapter 14: View Post Details When Tapping a Post

Lecture 1: Design Detail View; Switch to Post Detail View When Tapping a Post.

Lecture 2: Display Post Detail; Visit Comments and Users from Post Detail View

Lecture 3: Visit Posts from User Profiles

Chapter 15: Display Photos Based on Their Sizes Using Dynamic Heights.

Lecture 1: First, The App Needs to Know Photo Sizes.

Lecture 2: Then Adjust Photo Height Accordingly

Chapter 16: Share Video Posts

Lecture 1: Pick Videos from Library and Generate Video Thumbnails

Lecture 2: Push Video Data to The Firebase Server

Lecture 3: Download Videos from Server and Play Them in The App.

Lecture 4: Mute and Unmute Videos; Automatically Mute Videos When Scrolling View.

Chapter 17: Filter Photos.

Lecture 1: Show The Filter View after Picking A Photo.

Lecture 2: Filter Photos, and Do It Fast.

Lecture 3: Filtering Might Distort Photos; Let's Fix That.

Chapter 18: Hashtags and User Mentioning.