When one says iOS, the only thing that comes to mind is an IPhone, but iOS is much more than that. The IOS is an operating system that runs not only the IPhone but also Mac and IPad. There are many free and paid iOS apps available on the App store. iOS app development companies have built many apps for businesses that have helped companies make a lot of money.
Why develop an app for the iOS platform?
Apple is one of the most profitable ventures in the world, and its IPHONE is a high-end device which employs IOS as software. The market reach, the wide scape and users which are obtained when one’s app also operates on the IOS is paramount. That’s one of the main reasons why every modern app running on any other operating system is custom made to run on the IOS platform.
Things to know before developing an app for IOS
- One needs to know SWIFT; SWIFT is a language used to develop apps which would work on the IOS platform.
- A MAC laptop would be required to develop IOS based as windows platform wouldn’t be of any use.
- Objective c is another language that has been in use since ages for app development on the IOS platform.
- The platform IOS is Apple exclusive, and a set of syntaxes made would not run on any other platform. The extension .ipa is formed for an app to run on IOS and is stored in the apple app store.
An app which runs on IOS
The apps developed to run on iOS should have an extension called .ipa. The .ipa files include binary code for the arm architecture and can only run on an IOS. Thus, making the apps IPhone exclusive in this form of extension.
Now the question arises which language to select for app development- the objective-c or Swift. There has been a saying that swift would slowly but surely replace the existing objective-c language for app development in the IOS. Because in objective-c the string control and its class division consume more coding data and time, whereas Swift reduces this coding enormously. The problem of the app crashing due to request botch-up can also be reduced drastically using the Swift.
Swift also simplifies the coding making it easier to understand, and the syntax appears to be less complicated. The two code legacy requirement of data was also eliminated by the Swift; this reduces the time consumed for maintaining data.
The language was Swift is now being widely used by Apple, and its further upgrades would be based on this language only. Making objective-c obsolete. The Swift language makes app development easier coding less complex, and the system can perform better with less ruined syntaxes thus an app developer should have a profound knowledge of the language to develop App for IOS.