Wrapping Up iOS

We haven’t even scratched the surface of all the APIs that are available in iOS development, but we’ve gone pretty deep into the ones we’ve worked with. You’ve gotten pretty deep exposure to the tooling and the new language, Swift. This is a great foundation from which to continue to learn to build iOS apps.

Strengths

The strength of the iOS platform is hard to dispute. It’s one of the dominant platforms; there’s no way around it. It’s important to know. The more Apple releases beautiful hardware, the more people will want apps on iOS. There’s no sign of that slowing down anytime soon.

Some very exciting and cool things are happening on the platform as well. Swift is probably the biggest. Swift is exciting because it’s a great ...

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