Meeting plans provide suggestions for club activities to help you go from idea to app. The resources below help you learn and apply the full cycle of app development, from designing and building simple apps to enhancing them with intelligent features, and more.
If you've never used Xcode, Swift, or SwiftUI before, get started with the SwiftUI tutorials.
6 tutorials and articles completed independently
10 meetings with group activities
Plan, prototype, and design your app. Follow the tutorials and articles that guide you through the process of creating something unique, with the help and support of your club.
Get started by reading Welcome to app design.
Adapt these materials to suit your club's needs. You can work on individual app designs or on a shared app design as a club. Come up with app ideas together, or start with this idea: an app that encourages users to stay in touch with their friends and family.
Ask questions, listen to your users, and define a list of features.
Meeting 1Preparation: Read Explore the app design cycle and complete the Ask questions tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Work in groups of two or three. Take turns asking your group open-ended questions about your app idea. These could be the same questions you used when you completed the tutorial or different questions. Be sure to take notes to capture their responses.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes to talk about what you have learned from talking to people about your app idea.
Meeting 2Preparation: Complete the Organize your features tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Work in groups of two or three. Take turns showing your sketches or screen list to your group. Ask them what they expect each screen to do, and pay attention to where your intentions need to be clarified.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes for each group to share what they learned.
Meeting 3Preparation: Read the "Reflect on the design principles" section of the Wrap-up: Discovery article.
Group activity: Work in small groups. Take turns showing the group one of your favorite apps or an app you find interesting. Talk about the design solutions you find in them. For example, can you identify the app's purpose? Does it seem focused or does it have a lot of extra features? Does the app evoke any particular emotions, like excitement or joy? If so, what design elements do you think contribute to its emotional impact?
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes for each group to share what they learned or found interesting.
Create an interactive prototype that looks and feels like a fully developed iOS app and is ready for testing.
Meeting 4Preparation: Complete the Build an interactive prototype tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Work in pairs. Share your prototype with your partner. Tell them about one of the essential features in your app, and have them try to complete it using your prototype. Notice any places where they hesitate or don't seem to know what to do next.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes to discuss what you learned.
Meeting 5Preparation: Read the "Use high-fidelity resources" section of the Wrap-up: Prototypes article.
Group activity: Work in pairs. Show your partner your prototype. Then, explore SF Symbols together. Talk about what symbols you could each use in your app design to add clarity. If you have time, check out the options in SF Symbols to edit or animate a symbol.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes to share what you found.
Improve the clarity and usability of your app design by observing how people interact with your prototype.
Meeting 6Preparation: Complete the Test your app article before the meeting.
Group activity: Work in groups of three. Take turns repeating your test, with one partner as your tester and one partner recording or taking notes for you.
At the end of the meeting, share with the group what new things you learned from the test session.
Meeting 7Preparation: Complete the Validate your app article before the meeting.
Group activity: Work in small groups. Take turns showing the group the feedback you collected from testing, then share your conclusions. Discuss together how each person's conclusions address the root causes of the issues they found in testing. Share any additional ideas you have for ways people in your group could refine their app design.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes for each group to share what they learned.
Meeting 8Preparation: Read the "Define your test to capture insights" section of the Wrap-up: Testing and validation article.
Group activity: Working in small groups, look over the information about layouts in the Human Interface Guidelines. Talk about how you can incorporate the guidelines there into your app design.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes to share with the group how the testing and validation process has changed your app design.
Revisit and strengthen your app design using your insights from testing and validation.
Meeting 9Preparation: Complete the Iterate on your design article before the meeting.
Group activity: In pairs or small groups, create a color palette for each person's app design. Start with a primary color that fits the character of the app, then add an accent color that complements it. Finally, consider adding a neutral base color that has enough contrast to work as the color for text in the app.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes to share examples and discuss how color expresses or affects the app experience.
Meeting 10Preparation: Read the "Moving forward and looking back" section of the Wrap-up: Iteration article.
Group activity: Work in small groups. Take turns showing the group your app design. Do you think your design is ready to be built? If not, how can you iterate on your design by repeating phases from the design cycle so that the design is ready for coding?
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes to discuss how your new perspective on app design might change the way you use and build apps.
5 tutorials completed independently
10 meetings with group activities
Learn the basics of app development through building apps with SwiftUI. Follow step-by-step tutorials to create prototypes, app screens, and fully functioning apps. Then apply what you learn to create something unique to you, with the help and support of your club.
Xcode includes tools that let you see how your app looks and works, right on your Mac, so you don't need additional devices for testing.
Get started by reading Welcome to SwiftUI.
Get to know Xcode and SwiftUI by creating a prototype of a messaging app. Learn about syntax for Swift and how to use the source editor and preview.
Meeting 1Preparation: Complete the Hello, SwiftUI tutorial before the first meeting.
Group activity: Work together or in small groups to complete two suggestions from the “Extend your app” section of the Wrap-up: Explore Xcode article.
Meeting 2Preparation: Read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Explore Xcode article.
Group activity: Start a new Xcode project called MyselfInSixWords. Use Text views to display six words that describe you. Give each word some padding and a different background color. Try displaying the words horizontally by replacing the VStackHStack. Then, for an extra challenge, mix HStack and VStack views to create different layouts for your app. Can you embed an HStack of views inside a VStack or the other way around? What happens if you do?
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes per person to showcase your MyselfInSixWords project.
Learn how to build a custom view to create a multiday weather forecast. In your view, you’ll use properties to customize the display for each day.
Meeting 3Preparation: Complete the Customize views with properties tutorial.
Group activity: Work together or in small groups to complete one or two suggestions from the “Extend your app” section of the Wrap-up: Views, structures, and properties article.
Meeting 4Preparation: Read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Views, structures, and properties article.
Group activity: Practice using computed properties. Add a computed property to return different colors if the high temperature is above 80 (high > 80). Use the .foregroundStyle modifier to change the text color depending on the value of the property.
Take a few minutes per person to present what you accomplished. Note what you were able to add to your project and what you still need help with or time to complete.
Build two onboarding screens for an iOS app to learn useful tools for putting views where you want them onscreen and inspecting their size. Define colors in the asset catalog and use them to create gradient backgrounds.
Meeting 5Preparation: Complete the Design an interface tutorial.
Group activity: Add a third page to the onboarding flow. Include whatever elements you want in the new page. If there is time, edit the design and colors of the app.
Meeting 6Preparation: Read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Layout and style article.
Group activity: Practice swiping between multiple views. Start a new Xcode project and create a short story using .tabViewStyle(.page) so you can swipe between the pages of your book. Make the first page look like a book cover, including a large title, author name, one or more SF Symbols, and some splashes of color. For the pages in the story, think of creative ways to display chapter titles, text, and pictures.
Take a few minutes per person to present what you were able to accomplish in your book project. Discuss your plan for what you are going to keep working on.
Explore adding buttons to your apps. Learn about Swift closures and their relationship to buttons. Use state properties to update the user interface automatically.
Meeting 7Preparation: Complete the Update the UI with state tutorial.
Group activity: Instead of having an image of a dice and a Roll button beneath it, modify DiceView so people can tap on the dice itself to randomize it.
Meeting 8Preparation: Read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Buttons and state article.
Group activity: Create a simple button app. Start a new Xcode project and create a one- or two-button app of your choice. You can use the Design a Simple App project to help you come up with an idea.
Take a few minutes per person to present your button app design and project. Share with your club what you thought was easier and harder than you expected.
Create a dynamic interface that stores a set of items in an array and displays them using lists. Use text fields and bindings to let people enter text.
Meeting 9Preparation: Complete the Create dynamic content tutorial.
Group activity: Choose one of the suggestions from the “Extend your app” section of the Wrap-up: Lists and text fields article.
Meeting 10Preparation: Read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Lists and text fields article.
Group activity: Format an address label. Start a new Xcode project named AddressLabel. Use @State properties and text fields to collect the different elements of an address, like city and country. Then display a complete formatted address at the top of the screen. Customize the fonts, sizing, and colors of the intake form and address.
At the end of the meeting, discuss what you learned.
7 tutorials completed independently
9 meetings with group activities
Learn the basics of data modeling through building apps with SwiftUI. Follow step-by-step tutorials to create prototypes and fully functioning apps. Then apply what you learn to create something unique to you, with the help and support of your club.
Xcode includes tools that let you see how your app looks and works, right on your Mac, so you don't need additional devices for testing.
Get started by reading Welcome to data modeling.
Define your first data model by making your own custom types, and prove they work correctly with unit tests. Then use your custom types to keep track of scores in a game.
Meeting 1Preparation: Complete the Model data with custom types tutorial and read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Model data with custom types article before the first meeting.
Group activity: Work together or in small groups to complete one suggestion from the “Extend your app” section of the Wrap-up: Model data with custom types article.
Meeting 2Preparation: Complete the Add functionality with Swift Testing tutorial and read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Custom types and Swift Testing article.
Group activity: Add a winning point total. Update your app so that the game ends automatically when a player reaches a specified point total. People should be able to configure this point total in the settings view. Add tests that increase players’ totals and validate that the game state transitions when the point total is reached.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes per person to showcase how you improved the project with an automated ending when a player reaches a specified number of points.
Build a list of your friends’ birthdays, using SwiftData to save and retrieve that data across launches.
Meeting 3Preparation: Complete the Save data tutorial.
Group activity: At the meeting, have each person choose one suggestion from the “Extend your app” section of the Wrap-up: Models and persistence article.
Meeting 4Preparation: Read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Models and persistence article.
Group activity: Enhance Pick-a-Pal. Revisit Pick-a-Pal and replace names: [String] with Pal models powered by SwiftData.
Take a few minutes to discuss as a group what you gain from adding SwiftData to the Pick-a-Pal app.
Create an app to track friends and their favorite movies using SwiftData to manage the model objects. Use a query to display the items in a list, and make a detail view to edit them. Then learn how to create and display relationships between friends and movies, and explore how to create advanced queries.
Meeting 5Preparation: Complete the Navigate sample data tutorial and read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Navigate sample data article.
Group activity: Revisit Birthdays and implement a SampleData class so that you don’t have to rely on a .task to insert sample data.
Meeting 6Preparation: Complete the Create, update, and delete data tutorial and read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Create, update and delete data article.
Group activity: Create an iOS App project and select SwiftData for storage in the Project Options dialog. Examine the sample code. You should notice that it’s very similar to the interface you built over the past two tutorials. Now that you know how it works, you can use this starting point to create your next great app.
Meeting 7Preparation: Complete the Work with relationships tutorial and read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Navigation, editing, and relationships article.
Group activity: Work together or in small groups to complete one or two suggestions from the “Extend your app” section of the Wrap-up: Navigation, editing, and relationships article.
Power an alphabet game using Observation. Share a complex data model with many independent views.
Meeting 8Preparation: Complete the Complete a game with logic tutorial.
Group activity: Work together or in small groups to complete one or both suggestions from the “Extend your app” section of the Wrap-up: Observation and shareable data models article.
Meeting 9Group activity: Difficulty modes. Add difficulty modes for a more challenging game. What if submitting an incorrect order results in losing points instead of getting to try again? Go even further by hiding the words so the player alphabetizes based on icons alone.
At the end of the meeting, discuss what you learned.
5 tutorials completed independently
8 meetings with group activities
Follow step-by-step tutorials to create a fully functioning habit-tracking app. Then apply what you learn to create something unique to you, with the help and support of your club.
Xcode includes tools that let you see how your app looks and works, right on your Mac, so you don't need additional devices for testing.
Get started by reading Welcome to app development.
Build a screen to capture text and photo data. Use SwiftData to save entries and build a custom view to display them.
Meeting 1Preparation: Read Review Swift fundamentals and complete the Collect, model, and store data tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Work in small groups to provide a way to let people add multiple images to an entry.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes for each group to show its solution. Then, discuss as a group what design considerations multiple images introduce and how they impact your Moment data model.
Meeting 2Preparation: Complete the Use a custom layout view tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Working in small groups, create additional cases for HexagonLayout, then determine how to adapt to the new layout sizes.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes for each group to share what you came up with.
Meeting 3Preparation: Read the "Reflect on the concepts" section of the Wrap-up: Views and data storage article.
Group activity: Work in small groups to experiment with different shapes. Replace the hexagon SF Symbol with another symbol. How does this impact your design? How does it impact Hexagon, HexagonMomentView, and HexagonLayout?
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes for each group to share what you learned.
Use your knowledge of Swift and data modeling to make your app more engaging with user experience features.
Meeting 4Preparation: Complete the Create an algorithm for badges tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Work individually or in small groups to complete one or both of the suggestions in the "Extend your app" section of the Wrap-up: User experience features article.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes to share what you did.
Meeting 5Preparation: Read the "Reflect on the concepts" section of the Wrap-up: User experience features article.
Group activity: Work in small groups to update HexagonAccessoryView to support showing up to two accessories before showing a badge count.
At the end of the meeting, discuss as a group what you found challenging about this activity.
Add accessibility features to your app. Then improve your debugging skills so it's ready for testing.
Meeting 6Preparation: Complete the Add inclusive features tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Work in small groups to test your app on different devices. In the canvas, change the Preview Device and test your app with different screen sizes.
At the end of the meeting, discuss as a group whether your layout accommodates the devices you tested. What changes might you need to make to your app?
Meeting 7Preparation: Complete the Investigate and fix a bug tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Work in small groups to write unit tests for unlockBadges to make sure there are no bugs when unlocking badges.
At the end of the meeting, discuss what you learned.
Meeting 8Preparation: Read the "Reflect on the concepts" section of the Wrap-up: App refinement article.
Group activity: Working in small groups, follow along with the Localizing Landmarks sample project and prepare the Grateful Moments demo app for localization.
At the end of the meeting, discuss what you learned.
6 tutorials completed independently
12 meetings with group activities
Explore the basics of machine learning and learn how to add intelligent features to your apps with Apple tools and frameworks. Follow step-by-step tutorials to create fully functioning apps with SwiftUI. Then apply what you learn to create something unique to you, with the help and support of your club.
Xcode includes tools that let you see how your app looks and works, right on your Mac, so you don't need additional devices for testing.
Get started by reading Welcome to machine learning and AI.
Explore machine learning with the Natural Language framework and sentiment analysis. Create an app that collects opinions on hiking, analyzes the responses, and displays the results visually.
Meeting 1Preparation: Complete the Analyze sentiment in text tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Work in small groups to extend the functionality of Scorer, using the Natural Language framework to also return the language the response was written in. Update Response to store this new information, and use ResponseView to display it.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes for each group to share how they chose to place this information and make it easily readable.
Meeting 2Preparation: Read the "Reflect on the concepts" section of the Wrap-up: Natural language article.
Group activity: Work in small groups to update your Sentiment enum to have five cases instead of three. Decide how to label them, how to divide the sentiment score range among them, and how to display them in the UI. (You can use SF Symbols for the icons.)
Next, add responses to the sample set in the app and see whether they are scored the way you expected. See if you can create a new response for each enum case.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes as a group to discuss apps you use that might incorporate sentiment analysis. Are there other apps you use that might be better if they added sentiment analysis in some way?
Create an app that uses the machine learning Vision and Translation frameworks to identify text in an image and translate it into another language.
Meeting 3Preparation: Complete the Extract text from images tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Working in small groups, start by making copies of the sign images that are cropped to include only the portions of the signs that have text. Add the cropped images to the app, then change the app so that people can select their preferred recognition level to prioritize either speed or accuracy. Experiment with how the cropped images and the original images are recognized when speed is prioritized.
Next, change the color of the bounding rectangles based on the certainty value of the recognized text. Again, compare the results between the original and cropped images.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes to discuss what you have learned about input images.
Meeting 4Preparation: Read the "Reflect on the concepts" section of the Wrap-up: Recognize text in images article.
Group activity: Work in small groups to provide a way to select among multiple candidates when the Vision framework offers more than one option. Consider adding a new control to select an option or using the keyboard to fix incorrect results.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes for each group to show its solution. Then, discuss as a group how you can imagine using the Vision framework to create an app that would be useful to you.
Train a machine learning model with the Create ML tool in Xcode. Use provided data to train a model to predict how challenging a trail will be based on characteristics like distance and elevation.
Meeting 5Preparation: Complete the Train a Core ML model tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Work together or in small groups to adjust the Linear Regression algorithm parameters. Can you improve the model results? Can you reduce the time spent training and get a model of equal quality?
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes to share the changes you made and how much accuracy or speed you were able to improve.
Meeting 6Preparation: Read the "Reflect on the concepts" section of the Wrap-up: Model training with Create ML article. Determine the mathematical formula that calculates risk values using the data. You'll know you have it right if your formula predicts approximately the same risk values as the app does. Hint: Previewing TrailData1k.csv may help you isolate individual fields.
Group activity: Work in small groups to use the trail data to train a model that predicts a value other than risk — either elevation, distance, or the presence of dangerous wildlife.
Then, discuss as a group what other kinds of apps you can imagine using Create ML models to build.
Import a machine learning model into an app that takes details about hikes and displays their likely challenge level.
Meeting 7Preparation: Complete the Import models with Core ML tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Work together or in small groups to change the risk setup in the app. In the tutorial, the risk categories assume that the person using the app is a hiking enthusiast. Adjust the risks for an amateur hiker, then create a UI to display the exact risk. Explore alternatives to simply displaying the numeric risk value as text. Can you find a way to show the risk relative to other trails?
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes to discuss other parameters you could use as input. How might they improve the accuracy of the results or support other people using the app?
Meeting 8Preparation: Read the "Reflect on the concepts" section of the Wrap-up: Custom models with Core ML article.
Group activity: Work in small groups to replace the Submit button with a live update of the predicted risk. Hint: Use .onChange when the input state changes.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes to share the changes you made.
Create an app that lets users generate and modify images using the Image Playground framework.
Meeting 9Preparation: Complete the Utilize image generation features tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Work in small groups to update ImageGenerator to let the user provide an initial image concept to influence the created image. You'll also need to adapt the UI so people can upload the initial image.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes for each group to show its solution.
Meeting 10Preparation: Read the "Reflect on the concepts" section of the Wrap-up: Image generation with Image Playground article.
Group activity: Work in small groups to let the user generate multiple variations using the limit parameter of ImageCreator. Modify the interface to display all the generated images.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes for each group to share what you learned.
Create a quiz app using streaming responses and guided generation.
Meeting 11Preparation: Complete the Generate structured content tutorial before the meeting.
Group activity: Work individually or in small groups to complete one or both of the suggestions in the "Extend your app" section of the Wrap-up: Intelligent features with Foundation Models article.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes to share what you did.
Meeting 12Preparation: Read the "Reflect on the concepts" section of the Wrap-up: Intelligent features with Foundation Models article.
Group activity: Add a score property to your quiz. Track and display that score as the user answers questions.
At the end of the meeting, discuss what you learned.
3 tutorials completed independently
6 meetings with group activities
Learn the basics of spatial computing through building apps with SwiftUI. Follow step-by-step tutorials to create prototypes and fully functioning apps. Then apply what you learn to create something unique to you, with the help and support of your club.
You don't need an Apple Vision Pro device. Xcode includes tools that show you how your app will look and work, right on your Mac.
Get started by reading Welcome to spatial computing.
Create your first visionOS app with a window using SwiftUI.
Meeting 1Preparation: Complete the Add depth to your app tutorial before the first meeting.
Group activity: Work together or in small groups to complete two suggestions from the “Extend your app” section of the Wrap-up: Windows in visionOS article.
Meeting 2Preparation: Read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Windows in visionOS article.
Group activity: Create a grid of words. Start a new Xcode project called CloserWordGrid. Use Grid and GridRow to create a grid of words that describe you. Give each word some back padding. For an extra challenge, randomly choose one word to have extra back padding, and see if you can guess which word is closest to the front each time.
At the end of the meeting, take a few minutes per person to showcase your CloserWordGrid project. Share what inspired you about this new platform and how you can leverage new opportunities in your next app.
Create multiple windows in visionOS using SwiftUI. Use ornaments to provide access to frequently used controls without crowding or obscuring window contents.
Meeting 3Preparation: Complete the Present common controls in an ornament tutorial.
Group activity: Work together or in small groups to complete one or both suggestions from the “Extend your app” section of the Wrap-up: Ornaments and multiple windows article.
Meeting 4Preparation: Read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Ornaments and multiple windows article.
Group activity: Add a feature to quickly access labels. Labels you create can be closed or obscured behind other labels. Create a SwiftUI List where you can select a label to bring it into focus. When a label is selected from the list, use openWindow to bring the label to the foreground, reopening it if necessary.
Take a few minutes per person to present what you did. Note what you were able to accomplish and what you still need help with or time to complete.
View 3D content from any angle in the Shared Space using Reality Composer Pro and SwiftUI.
Meeting 5Preparation: Complete the Create 3D models in the Shared Space tutorial.
Group activity: Work together or in small groups to complete one or both suggestions from the “Extend your app” section of the Wrap-up: Volumes in visionOS article.
Meeting 6Preparation: Read the “Reflect on the concepts” section of the Wrap-up: Volumes in visionOS article.
Group activity: Explore Hello World. Download the Hello World app and explore the code. Start in the WorldApp file and see how much of it looks familiar. Count how many WindowGroup scenes are used. Notice where the volumetric window style is used. Read the code comments to learn as much as you can. When you’re ready, try making small changes to the project.
Take a few minutes per person to share what you plan to do next. How are you going to continue learning app development? What app do you want to make?