website developers' complete guide to ios development

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There are many options before you to work with. You have to select which one to pick and develop for today's smart iPhones. We all know that there is a need for huge numbers of iPhone app developers who are well-versed in iOS development. There is a demand for smart applications for Apple mobile devices. We have to supply the maximum to meet clients' need.

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Page 1: Website Developers' Complete Guide To iOS Development

Website Developers' Complete Guide To iOS Development

Ever since I bought my first Mac I would always open up Xcode periodically and see if I could figure out how to create a working Mac or iOS app. The Xcode IDE is such a complex piece of software and each time I tried I would give up after an hour and resign myself to continue to focus on the web as my primary area of expertise. Now all that is changing and I am writing a book on iOS development using Swift for developers like me. It is part of my “Developer’s Guide” series. What has changed? Why am I doing this now? Do we even need to learn native coding now that Phonegap exists? Absolutely, and now is the perfect time.

Time Has To Be Perfect

Apple hosted World Wide Developer Conference 2014, weeks before and made some pretty exciting announcements. iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite are cool and so is the new Healthkit and home integration APIs but the thing I am most excited about is the introduction of their new programming language for both OS X and iOS, Swift.

Because of this announcement, I think that right now is the perfect time to learn iOS programming. Of course, if you really want to develop for iOS devices any time is a good

time but Swift makes things different in a number of ways. Putting aside the awesome new APIs developers will have access to in iOS 8, Swift is a clean slate for iPhone and iPad development. Because it is a new language, everyone is starting from scratch and learning at the same time. There are only a handful of truly good, authoritative resources for learning Swift and we are all starting from a level playing field. Okay, so it is not totally level considering that those who know Objective-C and their way around Xcode will not have that steep of a learning curve but for everyone else who has yet to learn Objective-C it is great.

When iOS 8 is released this fall it will mark the beginning of the end of an era. From that point forward all Apple development will be geared toward Swift and if Apple’s past moves are anything to go by, I predict that Objective-C will begin to be phased out just like they phased out PowerPC Macs and Carbon when OS X 10.6 was released. Granted, backwards

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compatibility for these things exists to some degree or another and the phase out took a number of years but the transition was fast, relatively speaking. This means that everyone who learns Swift now will be ahead of the game years from now when Objective-C becomes obsolete.

Why Now?

I have been putting off learning Objective-C for years. The syntax looks weird and all the code that Xcode writes for me kind of scares me off! Rather than get my hands dirty with native app development, I got a taste of iOS development from creating my first iPhone application. It was a great experience and I learned a decent amount about Xcode, how the App Store works, and got a taste of some iOS APIs. My users do not notice but I do. There is a teeny lag in some of my interactions with the app and trying to replicate native transitions, touch events, and other goodies that the iOS SDK gives you free using web technologies is a pain. Although it would be a pain to learn Objective-C or Swift, both of those options are better in the long term.