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by spikepuppet 803 days ago
Swift and iOS development! I've been lucky enough to spend a lot of my career being able to get my hands dirty with a bunch of different projects and at a lot of layers of the stack, but I never got deep into app development.

Now I'm diving in and scratching that itch! It's also been great because I've been able to start looking beyond that to making things for the entire apple ecosystem. It's also just been so good to dive into something without any work pressure there!
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peterpans01 803 days ago
Might to share your resource? I would like to learn Swift as well. But I am lost in which roadmap to learn.
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spikepuppet 803 days ago
Happy too! So my main resource is Hacking With Swift (https://www.hackingwithswift.com), specifically the 100 days of SwiftUI Course. It takes you over Swift and SwiftUI. I've paired this with the official Swift site (https://www.swift.org) so I can dig into the language more, and Apple Documentation where appropriate to get used to using the tools.

In terms of finding it, it was a bit of a shot in the dark. I did some poking around and this popped up the most, specifically because I was looking for iOS specific materials. I'm sure if you want to make cross platform apps there's probably a whole host of great resources!

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mraza007 802 days ago
Thanks for sharing these resources,

Would love to hear your perspective on why pick Swift over React Native as its cross platform too

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spikepuppet 802 days ago
Happy to speak on that! I mostly wanted to dig into something I hadn't done before, with a whole new set of tools to learn. In this case, I had been super interested lately in the Apple ecosystem/platform. I'd spent some of my career in .NET/Windows land and got to see a bunch of stuff there and how it all worked, so I figured why not try out what Apple has to offer.

I also felt like since I have no real intent to try and turn what I'm learning into something that makes money, I could go a little crazy/niche and dig in.

This all being said, If someone asked me about making an app as something they want to release/make money off/turn into a company I'd fully be pointing them at tooling like React Native.

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