What Is an iOS App Developer? A 2025 Guide
Learn what an iOS developer does and how you can succeed in this rapidly growing field.
January 29, 2025
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This course is part of iOS App Development with Swift Specialization
Instructor: Parham Aarabi
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In App Design and Development for iOS, the third course of the iOS App Development with Swift specialization, you will be developing foundational programming skills to support graphical element presentation and data manipulation from basic functions through to advanced processing. You will continue to build your skill set to use and apply core graphics, touch handling and gestures, animations and transitions, alerts and actions as well as advanced algorithms, threading and more. By the end of this course you will be able to develop a more advanced, fully functioning app.
Currently this course is taught using Swift 2. The team is aware of the release of Swift 3 and will be making edits to the course in time. Please be aware that at this time the instruction is entirely with Swift 2.
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In this module you'll learn how to design for your users' interactions
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In this module we explore different controllers for navigating your app
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Learn how to customize behavior to match a user’s preferences.
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In this module we give you some of the tools for designing for watchOS 2
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In this module you will gain insight into developing for tvOS
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Reviewed on May 24, 2016
Very good course, a lot of usefull information. I would like to participate in all of courses of this lector.
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Great coverage of course content, material ! Very exciting stuff !
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Now all the knowledge acquired in this course has improved my skills in my job.I love this.
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