Jun 22, 2020
By 2021 the mobile app market revenue is expected to be $693 billion. Now would be as good of a time as any to get into developing apps by yourself.
With the increasing number of things we can do from our mobile devices the job market for app developers is growing rapidly and will continue to grow in the foreseeable future. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has further boomed the market as people are doing more and more things from their homes. Besides, you wouldn’t wanna be depended on someone else when you finally have that billion dollar idea now, would you? 😆
After going through the 3 courses above you should be capable enough to be able to make most of the small scale apps. Now what can be the next step? There is no set tutorial that will take you from a beginner to an intermediate. There are a lot of things in iOS Development that can be considered as intermediate/advanced and it would be pretty impossible to make a tutorial series for that. Instead what I want you to do is think of a fairly big app that you wanna build. It can be a clone of another app or your own idea.
For example: Lets say you wanna build Twitter, start by building all the basic features and UI that you know how to build and complete a basic skeleton of the app. Now focus on individual features like: How to make twitter like animation or How to make twitter sidebar or How to make twitter splash screen. Google these question and try finding the solutions to them and code them. Alternatively if you don’t wanna make a whole app you can take advanced features from multiple apps and just practice coding them.
At this point you should also start looking into Unit testing and UI testing for your apps. Testing is very necessary and whichever company you apply for a job will require that you know it.
That being said below are some learning resources you can use:
Now that you are done with intermediate level you should be able to build almost any app you desire. Advance Level according to me would be to improve your app. When I say improve I mean improving the performance of the app so that it can scale to a large number of users. Making a twitter or facebook clone is very easy. But making a twitter clone that will work when there are a million users, now thats something I would consider advanced level. So, how would you go about it? You can learn better complicated architectures like Clean Architecture, add multi-threading to your app, modularise your app for scaleability, add concurrency, make CI-CD pipelines, etc.
The articles below list a lot of resources for advanced iOS development:
Roadmap for Swift Language (Link)
iOS App Development Roadmap (Link)
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