iOS App Development

Crafting exceptional iOS App development is a perfect fusion of cutting-edge technology and seamless functionality.

What is the iOS?

iOS is a mobile operating system for Apple-manufactured devices. iOS runs on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.

iOS is best known for serving as the underlying software that allows iPhone users to interact with their phones using gestures such as swiping, tapping, and pinching.

iOS comes with a lot of default apps, including an email client, a Safari Web browser, a portable media player (iPod) and the phone app.

iOS Developer can use the iOS software development kit (SDK) to create applications for Apple mobile devices. The SDK includes tools and interfaces for developing, installing, running and testing apps.

Native apps can be written using the iOS system frameworks and the Objective-C programming language. Included in the iOS SDK are Xcode Tools, which include an integrated development environment (IDE) for managing application projects.

iOS Development with Swift

Swift is a new programming language developed by Apple Inc for iOS and OS X development.

Swift adopts the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility.

Swift designers took ideas from various other popular languages such as Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, and CLU.

Features of Swift

Swift is open-sourced and easy to learn for iOS Developer.
Swift makes use of safe programming patterns.
Swift provides modern programming features for iOS Developer.
Swift provides seamless access to existing Cocoa frameworks.
Swift does not need a separate library import to support functionalities like input/output or string handling.
Swift is a fantastic way to write iOS and OS X apps.

iOS Development with Objective C

Objective C is an object-oriented language.

This is the main programming language used by Apple for the OS X and iOS operating systems and their respective APIs, Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.

Although the Cocoa Touch frameworks are Objective-C–based APIs, the iOS development platform also enables you to access standard C-based APIs.

Features of Objective C

It has existed for over 30 years, hence it’s a developed and mature language. Moreover, it’s well-tested, has an extensive open-source library, and clear documentation.
Dynamic typing feature helps to predict the developer’s mind and simplify the code.
Being an old language, it supports the older versions of iOS and macOS.
Since it’s old and well-tested, it’s a stable language and doesn’t require frequent updates. So you don’t need to worry about migrating to a different version again.

History of iOS

iOS is the Operating system for iPhones made by Apple. It was first called “iPhone OS” for the first 3 years (2007-2009) later on from 2010 the Operating system was renamed “iOS”.

The Operating system was first released on 29 June 2007 with the first phone from Apple known as “iPhone”. iPhone users receive the new version of iOS every year in the month of September.

Version	Year
iOS 18	September 16, 2024
iOS 17	September 18, 2023
iOS 16	September 12,2022
iOS 15	September 24, 2021
iOS 14	September 17, 2020
iOS 13	September 19, 2019
iOS 12	September 17, 2018
iOS 11	September 19, 2017
iOS 10	September 13, 2016
iOS 9	September 16, 2015
iOS 8	September 17, 2014
iOS 7	September 18, 2013
iOS 6	September 19, 2012
iOS 5	October 12, 2011
iOS 4	June 22, 2010
iOS 3	June 17, 2009
iOS 2	July 11, 2008
iOS 1	June 29, 2007

Advantages of iOS

iOS has this tremendous advantage of being very simple and compatible with each subsequent upgrade.
iOS enable the working of the company’s Office365 app that is a suite of cloud-based application and productivity applications that let users create and share data, manage data, site pages and much more much like one can do by using computers.
Both fingerprint and face detection sensors are supported by the platform ensuring double security checks.
The overall performance of iOS is good. Whether you are playing games or using any other app, your device will not hang.
There are a lot of gestures supported in iOS. For example, you can shake your device to undo a recent thing.
There are multi-language support by iOS.
The iOS personal assistant SIRI has a great capacity for solving daily tasks with virtual support.
Using Jailbreaking, ios allows the installation of pirated software on it.
The iOS performance is better than compared to Android os.

Disadvantages of iOS

There is no customization.
iOS is not open source, which means you can’t customize iOS on computers other than Apple devices and can’t support it.
The iOS does not allow for install a third-party app.
iOS does not provide NFC and radio support. NFC provides communication between nearby devices but it is not supported by iOS.
The iOS works only in Apple Hardware
The main disadvantage of using iOS is the costly Apps which are provided by iOS App Store.
The split-screen feature is not supported by iOS.
iOS does not support PIP (picture-in-picture) feature for WhatsApp, Facebook, duo, etc.