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Build your first iOS app at Tampa Bay Apple Coding Meetup — Monday, June 26!

“Let’s Get Started!” — a collage of Apple products including the iPhone, MacBook Pro, Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPad, and Vision Pro.

It’s been a while, so let’s go back to the beginning and build an iOS app!

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Join us on Monday, June 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Computer Coach to sit down, fire up Xcode, and write an iOS app. Register here!

It’s been a while since Tampa Bay has had a meetup for Apple platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and the upcoming visionOS (as in the OS for Apple’s Vision Pro, a.k.a. “the goggles”). The best way to learn how to develop for all of these platforms is to develop for iOS.

At this meetup, where we’ll build a simple iOS app and get re-acquainted with iOS development with Swift and SwiftUI.

Are you new to iOS development, the Swift programming language, Xcode, SwiftUI, or any combination of these? This meetup session is just for you! You’ll come to the meetup with your Mac with Xcode installed, and you’ll leave with a working app!

This meetup will be a “code along with the presenter” exercise. You’ll fire up Xcode, click File → New, and following the presenter’s work on the big screen, you’ll write code in Swift, build a user interface in SwiftUI, and compile and run the app. If you’ve never built an iOS app before — or it’s been a while — you’ll want to attend this meetup!

MacBook with code on its screen.

You’ll need:

  • A Mac computer — preferably a laptop, but we’ve had people bring in Mac desktops before.
  • Xcode 14.3.1. It’s free on the App Store, but it does take a while to download and install. It’s best if you install it in advance.

And because it’s hard to code on an empty stomach, we’ll provide the pizza, courtesy of our sponsor: Okta! We’d also like to thank Computer Coach for the generous use of their space.

Once again: Join us on Monday, June 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Computer Coach to sit down, fire up Xcode, and write an iOS app. Register here!