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5 Essential Skills of a Successful iOS App Developer

App development is a tricky business, isn’t it? Yes, probably because of the difficulties and hustle in making the successful app development. There are many important skills that makes the developers an expert in making an innovative and conceptual iOS mobile apps. Just so you know, many iPhone app development company are working on to make an immaculate and creative app that pleases the audience, encourages the customers to use the products or the services that are impelled by the app quality and user friendliness.

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Being a professional developer is not a usual task as you have the responsibility to make the foundation of the business or the enterprise the client wishes to have. If you decide to opt a career in a mobile application development that involves high chances of job opportunities, you are one of the smart decision maker who has joined the journey of the ever-rising smartphone era and enormous mobile app usage. As per the latest survey, the job growth of mobile app developers is estimated to be more than 20%. So what does it take to become an iOS app developer?

The statistics and the figures that are associated with the app industry is mind boggling. The mobile app industry generated approximately $44.8 billion in 2016. It is also estimated by 2020, market analysts predict that the global mobile app market could hit $100 billion. That is incredible, isn’t it?

Let’s get into some of the core skills you would need to become a professional developer.

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1. Swift Programming Language

We know that Swift is a powerful programming language owned by Apple for developing magnificent mobile applications. It is evident that the language is vast, following subjects are enough to make you grasp a decent understanding of the language and its practicality.
1. Basic Syntax
2. Control Flow (If and Switch Statements)
3. Objective-C Interoperability
4. Error Handling
5. Classes, Inheritance & Initialization

2. Spatial Reasoning

Do you have the ability to re-think in terms of 3D while sighting the spatial relationships between objects is an essential tool for IOS application developers? It becomes important to know when professionals develop interfaces for Apple’s products such as Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPhone, etc.

3. Design Principles

There is no secret for success. Well, sometimes there are set of protocols if followed parallel can create good results. You must have noticed one thing for sure if you are an iPhone user that most popular iOS apps are popular because of their intuitiveness. One of the major reasons is their strict adherence to defined procedures and guidelines.

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4. Networking

Before linking networking with app development, come up with an app that has no connectivity with the web. It may be very difficult to name one, as today almost all of the apps interact with web in some way. But, it is important for you to understand the sending and receiving of data over web or networking

5. Core Data

Core Data is a persistence framework developed by Apple for devices run on its iOS platform. This framework mainly operates by storing data on Apple’s devices. For instance, if you have ever played old video games such as Super Mario Bros., remember how frustrating it was to start the game all over again the next time you turned it on.
These factors will be helpful both ways, the companies that want to hire the skillful developers and also to the developers who wishes to be recruited by the authoritative organization especially and specifically because of their expertise. Go on.