E26 | A Conversation about iOS Development | Cyril Garcia

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In this episode, I have a conversation with my guest Cyril Garcia, an incoming iOS Engineer at Pandora Media, all about iOS development. Learn what you need to know to get into iOS development, the difference between UIKIt and SwiftUI and much more!

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Questions Asked

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• Tell us about your background.
  
• How did you get into iOS app development?
  
• What YouTubers helped you on your journey to becoming an iOS developer?
  
• How many iOS apps have you developed so far?
  
• What was your monetization model for your iOS apps?
  
• Tell us about the iOS tech stack.
  
• What's the difference between Objective C and Swift?
  
• Is Swift the way to code iOS apps moving forward?
  
• Tell us about Swift for server side coding?
  
• Is Swift open source?
  
• Tell us about XCode.
  
• To develop iOS apps, do you need a Macintosh?
  
• Tell us about UIKit.
  
• Tell us about SwiftUI.
  
• Is the future UIKit or SwiftUI?
  
• Is UIKit more visual then code?
  
• Someone starting today in iOS development, should they focus on UIKit or SwiftUI?
  
• What version of iOS does SwiftUI requires?
  
• Can you use Swift to write for all SDKs?
  
• Can your Swift code be written once and published to multiple type of devices?
  
• What are your thoughts about React Native and Flutter?
  
• How can you get data from Contentful into an iOS app?
  
• What's your relationship like with a designer of an iOS app?
  
• For someone getting into iOS development today, what's the most important tip you can give them?
  

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Reference Links

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• Cy’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/_ByCyril)
  
• Sean Allen YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/seanallen)
  
• Paul Hudson YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmJi5RdDLgzvkl3Ly0DRMlQ)
  
• Mark Moeykens YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChH6WbyYeX0INJjrK2-6WSg)
  
• Swift.org (https://swift.org/)