How To Become A Successful Iphone Developer?

Aspire to be an iPhonedeveloper? Want to build a highly robust and interactive mobile app utilizing the iOS platform? Here are some things you should know.

The job of an iOS developer is highly lucrative considering exponential popularity of iOS mobile apps today. iOS is the second most popular mobile platforms today, with the number of iPhone users growing radically. No wonder, there has been an increasing demand for iOS apps across all segments. Even organizations consider iPhone apps to be one of the most lucrative marketing platforms to reach out to a large audience base.

The scope for iPhoneapp development is tremendous as the platform provides an array of tools and frameworks to make the process simple and fast. So, if you are considering landing a job as iOS developer, it is important that you have knowledge of object-oriented principles, the language of choice for iOS development – Objective-C or Swift, how to use source control, etc.

So, what it takes to be an iPhone/iOS developer?

Learn iOS Operating System

Now, this is something quite obvious. If you want to be a professional iOS developer, you must know the Operating System in-depth. This means it is important to have knowledge of how to:

• Seamlessly handle user interactions via different control systems like switches, sliders, buttons, etc.


• Show alerts


• Build views with xibs, Storyboards, or programmatically 


• Display labels, images, and text views


• Handle transition and navigation between views


• Display data in table view


• Integrate with parse JSON and REST APIs

Here are some topics that you should have hands-on experience and be comfortable implementing – Interface Builder & XCode, Auto Layout, Cocoa Touch, Distributing an App, Building to Devices, UIKit, Core Data, Instruments, REST and/or SOAP, Table Views, Subversion and Git, Collection Views, Debugging in XCode, Clean Coding Principles, Concurrency and Threading, SOLID, XC Test, and Unit Testing to name a few.

Learn Objective-C or Swift

This is again, obvious to pursue a career as iPhonedeveloper. To build highly robust iOS apps, it is important that you learn Objective C or Swift language. It would be best to know both the languages as it will give you a competitive advantage. For a beginner, knowing at least the syntax and foundation frameworks like JSON, networking, collections, objects, data types, etc. is a good deal. Furthermore, it is important to know basic object-oriented concepts such as what an object is, what a class is, or how to write methods.

Learn Craftsmanship and How to Use Source Control

To be a successful iOS developer, it is important to know how to build an app, how to structure it, how to test and debug, and how to use source control. These are the minimum requirements to be an iOS developer. Source control is extremely important, and gives you the ability to make valid checkpoints, go back to an earlier version of the source code, and explain why such changes are being made. For this, you may have to learn Git – how to initialize and clone a repo, how to commit and push to a remote, how to check status of local repo, how and when to create and merge branches, etc. This will help you to know how to use source control in the best possible manner.

Experience of Building an App

Many companies prefer hiring a developer who has experience building a mobile application or software. So, you have already proven your skills in developing an app, you are much more preferable to a potential employer as compared to someone who have knowledge in iPhoneand Objective C, but has not yet built anything.

Being an iOS developer is a lucrative career, with huge growth potentials. After all, the trend for iOS apps is here to stay!