Hello, I'm quite new to iOS native development I have been taking some online classes about iOS Development with swift especially the 2 classes below:
1 - iOS & Swift - The Complete iOS App Development Bootcamp (Angela Yu)
https://www.udemy.com/course/ios-13-app-development-bootcamp/
2 - Youtube Channel (iOS Academy)
https://www.youtube.com/c/iOSAcademy
I noticed that Angela focuses a lot of design the UI using Storyboard; whereas iOS Academy tends to design the UI using CodeBase.
My question is - What is the most common/efficient way to develop an iOS App? Thank you!
I have no data to say what is most common.
In fact you have now 3 options :
- Option 1. Create UI with storyboard, using UIKit.
- Option 2. Create UI in code, with UIKit
- Option 3. Use SwiftUI and de facto create UI in code, interactively with a previewer
I do personally prefer option 1 for 3 main reasons :
- It helps separate code and UI design (MVC design) ; that does help build and evolve UI as needed very efficiently
- Storyboard is a powerful graphic editor: you see the UI you design, what is much more tedious when you do in code in option 2
- I find SwiftUI still immature, and in many cases cumbersome when you want something a bit specific for your UI.
Hope that helps.
