People who code for mobile development, like OP, is IOS development their full time job? Because as someone who does web development, to learn the in and out of Swift programming language and using XCode feel major vendor lockin and prefer say React Native due to its interoperability.
I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
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#32People who code for mobile development, like OP, is IOS development their full time job? Because as someone who does web development, to learn the in and out of Swift programming language and using XCode feel major vendor lockin and prefer say React Native due to its interoperability.
If you browse job listings, you will find titles for 'iOS developer' and 'Android Mobile Developer'
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#33As a solo/indie dev who's currently early in building a product, I've been keeping a journal of "ideas" for content in a txt file in the codebase as I hate context switching and want to build this up before I get to it. Here's what I've done: - At the top of the file I've listed my audience, 3 personas - My content has to be useful to one of those - If I see an interesting post/take on social media I hold the link an…
I have a paper notebook next to my keyboard entitled 'sleep deprivation induced fever-dreams'. It is an excellent collection and useful tool so I dont let my ideas runaway with my attention.
Often when I return to what I write, about 60% I look back at with the novelty gone, and reassess from a more suitable eye and cross them off the list.
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#34People who code for mobile development, like OP, is IOS development their full time job? Because as someone who does web development, to learn the in and out of Swift programming language and using XCode feel major vendor lockin and prefer say React Native due to its interoperability.
If you browse job listings, you will find titles for 'iOS developer' and 'Android Mobile Developer'
Yup, I know that but my reason to ask was that if most people who develop for IOS also know web development, as in full stack development.
or are they usually IOS developer fulltime.
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#35For anyone like me that’s never heard of Lagree before https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lagree-buddy-wrist-metronome/i...
It’s a kind of Pilates.
Sort of like Bikram for hot yoga.
Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you browse job listings, you will find titles for 'iOS developer' and 'Android Mobile Developer'
Yup, I know that but my reason to ask was that if most people who develop for IOS also know web development, as in full stack development. or are they usually IOS developer fulltime.
Most are full time iOS developers.
Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
#37As a solo/indie dev who's currently early in building a product, I've been keeping a journal of "ideas" for content in a txt file in the codebase as I hate context switching and want to build this up before I get to it. Here's what I've done: - At the top of the file I've listed my audience, 3 personas - My content has to be useful to one of those - If I see an interesting post/take on social media I hold the link an…
I have a paper notebook next to my keyboard entitled 'sleep deprivation induced fever-dreams'. It is an excellent collection and useful tool so I dont let my ideas runaway with my attention. Often when I return to what I write, about 60% I look back at with the novelty gone, and reassess from a more suitable eye and cross them off the list.
And, if you're like me, you notice sometimes that you've been rediscovering the same interesting thought over and over again, and should really give it some structure and start building on it, rather than rewriting it again and and again, years apart. That's on the list of things I think that LLMs could help with.
Of course that's also an opportunity to combine the best of all of those iterations together, and still toss out a bunch of paper (or archive a bunch of bits.)
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#38As a solo/indie dev who's currently early in building a product, I've been keeping a journal of "ideas" for content in a txt file in the codebase as I hate context switching and want to build this up before I get to it. Here's what I've done: - At the top of the file I've listed my audience, 3 personas - My content has to be useful to one of those - If I see an interesting post/take on social media I hold the link an…
I have a paper notebook next to my keyboard entitled 'sleep deprivation induced fever-dreams'. It is an excellent collection and useful tool so I dont let my ideas runaway with my attention. Often when I return to what I write, about 60% I look back at with the novelty gone, and reassess from a more suitable eye and cross them off the list.
I get the same whenever I get my daily walk in. Pure unbounded epiphany of ideas and experiments, surging with creativity. I'll revisit them a few days later and for 90% of them my immediate internal response is "that sounds like a really sh*t idea".
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a paper notebook next to my keyboard entitled 'sleep deprivation induced fever-dreams'. It is an excellent collection and useful tool so I dont let my ideas runaway with my attention. Often when I return to what I write, about 60% I look back at with the novelty gone, and reassess from a more suitable eye and cross them off the list.
I get the same whenever I get my daily walk in. Pure unbounded epiphany of ideas and experiments, surging with creativity. I'll revisit them a few days later and for 90% of them my immediate internal response is "that sounds like a really sh*t idea".
Yea 90% is a more realistic fail rate of my 2am ideas which seem great at 2am, but then terrible a few days later with good sleep. If GP is batting almost .400 for insomnia fever ideas, that sounds pretty stellar to me.
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#40People who code for mobile development, like OP, is IOS development their full time job? Because as someone who does web development, to learn the in and out of Swift programming language and using XCode feel major vendor lockin and prefer say React Native due to its interoperability.
Even if using a framework like RN, solo devs would be putting themselves in a precarious position if they don't understand the underlying systems and frameworks. Without that knowledge they won't be able to effectively debug and figure out if issues are stemming from the cross-platform framework or the native platform/framework and subsequently will be entirely dependent on outside parties for fixes.
So if they're learning the native frameworks anyway, they may as well use them. These days with Swift and Kotlin most logic code transfers pretty cleanly and most apps can be LEGO'd together from UIKit/SwiftUI/Compose components, so the workload isn't as high as one might expect.
Aside from that, early on it's usually better to start with one platform, nail the UI and interaction, and then once the app is proven worry about the other platform.