Should I learn web development or iOS development?

If you're wondering where to start, or which developer type to become, watch this video.

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[RatherBeCancelledThanHandled]

This is good advice, I landed my first contract mobile IOS dev position and I start in two weeks. I feel like I had to work way harder than I would’ve if I just went with web dev.

[Monika-qhbk]

It's amazing. I've been thinking about it for a couple of weeks, meanwhile trying to learn web development and basic swift concepts at the same time. And today I've found this video and everything seems so clear now :) I know you uploaded it a long time ago, but thank you! :)

[CowboyEkim]

Thank You ! That really helped with my decision 👍🏽

[palomarAI]

Good learning path advice, much appreciated.

[jahangirakbar]

Thank you for the video this is what I was looking for

[dinonuggit]

the glass near the edge of the table was making me anxious lol

[shavkatibragimov]

thank u so much iv been struggling a lot as to choose one path

[tizcxvb]

Swift is open source, not controlled or owned by Apple, initiated by Apple yes, partly maintained by Apple yes, but not owned or run by Apple. One thing to note for all starting iOS/MacOS/tvOS developers out there is to know the difference between the core Swift programming language and Apple's development API's (CocoaTouch, SwiftUI, UIKit, ARKit). I know that I got confused between these two in the beginning and thinking to myself that Swift was an impossible language to master, it's really not... It's actually how I wish languages like JavaScript were made (we can all dream right).


Another cool thing that is up in the horizon for Swift is Swift 6! Swift 6 will bring a lot of focus to things outside Apple eco-system development, such as IOT, server side programming, etc.


Best of luck with the channel.

[ConernicusRex]

The way he walks you through it belies something pretty simple. Web dev is for 'just' (firmly tongue in cheek) programmers, at least in front. Mobile takes developers and engineers. The bar for entry in web is low because it's something high school kids can do.

And yeah you aren't super informed on swift. If anyone is reading this you can ignore that part entirely. Swift is one of the most powerful and versatile languages around. The learning curve is steep but levels quickly as the language has a lot of features that were designed with ease of use in mind.

[andres-rodriguez]

I would break it apart. I would learn how to code in Swift just running the terminal, and learn Object Oriented Programming at the same time. So no app development of any kind just writing code and executing code and seeing it in a terminal. After that I would start learning the basics of iPhone development. As you are now good in Swift it won't be complicated to jump then into iPhone development. I recently did that with Flutter. I only picked Dart, and wrote a ton of code and became more in tune with it, after that I started now learning Flutter, and is a lot easier than doing both at the same time. I work as an Android engineer.

[iiiii]

Advice is spot on. I've spent the last few weeks diving into both iOS and web development to see which one I like/pick up easier. I can say web development by far is way easier to pick up and get started vs Swift. A simple game tutorial with Swift literally took me hours just to follow along. Meanwhile I was off to the races with basic HTML and CSS. Sure it wasn't a full fledged web page but it sure looked decent. Thanks for this honest advice to so many beginners like myself.

[willa]

I don’t know very much about coding. I dont want to get hired as a coder. I want to make apps for Android and iOS as a personal side job. Should I learn a cross platform or swift and Android code ?

[jacobtran]

thank you for your honesty. i sub and liked. NOW do a video on Product Design and hook a brother up with some 411's

[josuecruz]

I'm deciding myself if I should learn html, css, javascript, and react or swift. I will probably go for web dev then learn react native and do cross-platform mobile development. Any advice? Thanks in advance.

[neptunemike]

great video, but do you think this changed due to the recent events? and upcoming probably economic downturn?

[nolimitsREAL]

As well in web development, if you have experience, gets you more money. I doubt that in mobile development gets you more money than web development, this is more related to the money. In IT in general the earnings are high. Generally experience = more money in every industry. I think depends on what you are attracted more and start with what you consider that you would like to do. Than if you don't like it, you can switch, but I do think that experience is caught in years of work in the same industry. After some years than your earnings are higher. Unless you are some special kid that you can do both, but I doubt that, this things are rare and we should not compare with others. Me myself I did like both of them, but I didn't have a mac, so I said to start with web development and believe me it's not easy. In department of easy I don't think that they are easy.

[chasingbrews]

I started in Web Dev and built a few little sites with the MERN stack. Now that I am learning Swift, I wish I had focused on it initially. I have no doubt that my web work will help though. Design is so different on the iOS side too.

[fraelitecagnin]

If I'm not looking for a job and already have some knowledge of Front-end, should I now learn Back-end or iOS development?

[dmitriyobidin]

Higher barrier, but less saturated. I would disagree that you will get web dev job much quicker. You will learn basics much quicker, but...
If you can build something on iOS chances are that you will get a job much sooner with less interviews.
Web development(and if we are talking about html/css i assume that you are talking about front end) - you will eat so much shit going through dozens of interviews... And it will not even guarantee you anything. Just cause the market of junior level front end devs is oversaturated right now. Especially during pandemic.

[AlexBodrovFamily]

I am experienced web developer who fed up with chasing up on new stack(or partially new) every single project or two. It seems to me like IOS development world is much “stable” in that sense, but I understand switching to IOS will be a downgrade of my level for sure at least for the next couple of years. I am curious if web dev experience matter at all in IOS world?