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Andre Lacerda
9,455 PointsFront-End Switch to iOS Development
Hey All,
I am currently on the Front-End Development Techdegree but I am considering switching to iOS Development. I am still undecided but my goal is to work with app development but I was wondering if I need any of the skills such as html, css and Javascript to work in app development.
What do you all think?
2 Answers
David Lin
35,864 PointsAndre,
While good to have web-development knowledge and skills, you don't strictly need to master HTML, CSS, JavaScript to do much of iOS app development. They're helpful, though, if your app needs to interface with web pages and manipulate their content, such as if your app is a custom web browser that optimizes web content on mobile devices. Still, learning basic web languages makes you that much more of a versatile developer, and what you learn from one language often transfers to learning others. For example, anonymous functions of JavaScript are similar to closures in Swift, blocks in Objective-C, and lambda functions in Java and C#, etc.
Andre Lacerda
9,455 PointsThank you David! I am finishing the Web Design Track and I will get started with Swift shortly.
David Lin
35,864 PointsYou're welcome! Best of luck!