Question

It’s been said that developing iOS applications represents a step backward for most developers. What does this statement mean? Is it true? Explain your answer.

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Answer 1

If we observe the stats , it says that there are approximately 1000 apps are uploaded in Apple Every day. The apple follows very strict security policy apart from normal android applications. If we develop an IOS application , there is a very less probability of accepting the application. It costs many resources of the company and there is always a time factor that will be wasted if application doesn't reach the standard of the Apple.

As we know IOS is the second largest mobile operating system in the world .Apart from this , it has very high adoption rate .So from versions to versions users might want better version what is existing now. So, companies has to reach their expectations .But development of IOS needs more than just normal coding skills .

Below are reasons why developers step backward :

i)Users always get confuse between the concepts object and pointer comparison. In normal programming language , the developers might not have clear understanding of the pointers. So, when it comes to IOS development we need to understand the difference between object and a pointer.

ii)Using hard -coded values : In IOS application development , When we write code with hard coded, we are not making our point clear. That is we don't what that particular value represents.When we try to write/modify code for multiple test-cases , we obviously can't find an ideal value for hard-coded value.

iii)Using default keywords as a variables : In a modern programming languages , like some of the programming languages accepts this case.But this should not be the same in an IOS application development. So when we need suggested to not to do some mistakes , we shouldn't make those mistakes.

iv)Misunderstanding the concepts like multi - threading and Concurrency : These are very important concepts in IOS application development.We need to get clear idea of what each term and technology used for .Multi threading concept is used for calculations and concurrency is used for parallel execution of multiple instructions.