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iOS and Swift Development

4 Courses
6 Hours
Skill IQ

This learning path is actively in production. More content will be added to this page as it gets published and becomes available in the library. Planned content includes:

**Platform & Language Foundations** - iOS Development: Big Picture and Platform Fundamentals. - Swift: The Big Picture - Xcode Fundamentals - Swift Fundamentals

**Modern UI, state, and user experience** - SwiftUI Fundamentals with Observation - Building iOS User Interfaces with SwiftUI - Accessible and Localized iOS Interfaces

**Data, Networking & App Responsiveness** - Swift Concurrency and App Responsiveness - Building Networked iOS Apps with URLSession and Swift Concurrency - Data Persistence and Cloud Sync in iOS

**Architecture & Quality** - Modern iOS App Architecture - Testing and Debugging in iOS - Performance and Profiling in iOS

**Security, Services & System Experiences** - Authentication and Secure Storage in iOS - Notifications and Background Updates in iOS - App Intents and AI-powered Experiences in iOS

**Deploy** - Deploy and Distribute iOS Apps

**Application Modernization & Interoperability** - Modernizing Existing iOS Apps

**UIKit for Existing Codebases** - UIKit Fundamentals - Building iOS User Interfaces with UIKit

**Existing Codebases & Interoperability** - Enabling CloudKit in iOS 18 - Objective-C for Swift Developers - Creational Design Patterns in Swift 5 - Structural Design Patterns in Swift 5 - Behavioral Design Patterns in Swift 5 - Debugging in iOS 17 - iOS 17 Fundamentals

This learning path prepares software developers to build, modernize, secure, and deploy production iOS applications using Swift, SwiftUI, and the modern Apple development stack. Learners will progress from platform and language fundamentals through SwiftUI, Observation, concurrency, networking, architecture, testing, security, AI-powered experiences, and app deployment while also gaining the skills needed to work with existing UIKit and legacy iOS codebases in real-world enterprise environments.

Content in this path
Existing Codebases & Interoperability

Reference courses covering Objective-C, design patterns, CloudKit, and older platform versions for developers working with established iOS codebases.

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What You'll Learn
  • Build modern iOS applications using Swift, SwiftUI, Xcode, and Apple platform tools.
  • Create responsive, accessible, localized, data-driven apps using Observation, Swift concurrency, URLSession, persistence, and cloud sync.
  • Structure, test, secure, optimize, modernize, and deploy production iOS apps for real-world development environments.
Prerequisites
  • Learners should have general software development experience and basic familiarity with programming concepts such as variables, functions, control flow, data structures, and object-oriented or modern application development patterns. Prior iOS experience is helpful but not required.
Related topics
  • Mobile development
  • Swift programming
  • iOS application development
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