Overview

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Get ready to showcase your iOS development skills with this portfolio-worthy capstone project. In this course, you’ll create a complete application using modern iOS technologies; great experience to talk about in interviews. As you work through the modules, you'll build the Smart Travel Journal, a real-world iOS app that combines SwiftUI, SwiftData, MapKit, Swift Charts, and Apple Foundation Models into a cohesive user experience. You'll apply industry-standard practices such as MVVM architecture, async/await networking, accessibility, testing, debugging, and performance optimization while working through a realistic development workflow. Through hands-on labs and guided activities you'll gain practical experience integrating live data, location services, AI-powered features, and persistent storage into a production-quality app. By the end, you'll have a polished app that demonstrates your ability to design, build, and enhance modern iOS applications, giving you a standout portfolio piece to showcase to employers and clients. Gain the hands-on experience employers are looking for and take your iOS app development skills to the next level. Enroll today.

Syllabus

Plan and Build the Foundation

In this module, you will plan the Smart Travel Journal and build its data foundation. You will define the app's requirements with user stories, create wireframes for the four core screens, and set up the Xcode project. You will then build two SwiftData models (Trip and JournalEntry) with a one-to-many relationship, implement CRUD operations with @Query and #Predicate, and set up the MVVM architecture with @Observable ViewModels. By the end of this module, you will have a compiling project with a working data layer and architecture, ready for screens in the module ahead.

Build Screens and Connect Data

In this module, you will build the Smart Travel Journal's user-facing screens on top of the data layer and architecture. You will implement the Trip List, Journal Entry Editor (with photo selection and location tagging), Trip Detail view, and an interactive Map View showing pinned journal entry locations. All screens are connected via NavigationStack within a TabView, following the same patterns used in Creating iOS Apps Using Swift's Weather & Places app. You will also connect the app to a REST API using async/await and URLSession to fetch location or weather data for each journal entry, reusing the networking patterns from Creating iOS Apps Using Swift.

Polish, AI Features, and Final Integration

In this module, you will polish the Smart Travel Journal and add the finishing touches that make it portfolio-worthy. You will add animations and transitions to key interactions, implement accessibility features (VoiceOver labels, Dynamic Type), and create a Charts tab using Swift Charts to visualize trip statistics. You will then integrate Apple's Foundation Models framework to auto-generate trip summaries from journal text and apply smart content tags to entries, using the same Foundation Models patterns. The module concludes with a final integration pass to ensure all features work together seamlessly.

Final Project and Course Wrap-Up

In this module, you will test and verify your completed Smart Travel Journal, learn how the App Store publishing process works, and submit the finished app for peer review. You will systematically test every feature using the Xcode Simulator and debugging tools learned in the previous courses (Get Started with iOS App Development, and Creating iOS Apps Using Swift), verifying that data persistence, networking, map integration, and AI features all work correctly. You will then learn, through guided readings, how professional developers prepare and publish apps to the App Store, covering topics such as App Store Connect, metadata preparation, screenshots, review guidelines, and TestFlight beta testing. Finally, you will organize your deliverables and submit the Smart Travel Journal as a portfolio-ready capstone artifact.