The iOS App Development Process

Software Development!

Steven Curtis
5 min readAug 1, 2022
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There are a number of ways of

  • Planning
  • Design
  • Development
  • Testing
  • Launch and Maintenance

For the developer

  • Gather requirements
  • Design
  • Implement
  • Verify the solution

Yet these components for software development, when taken at face value seem rather small and trivial.

Let us move into more detail about the process that might go on when creating an iOS application.

My process

Requirements

You can think of a rather large number of facets that can contribute to the requirements for a project.

In the first instance we can come up with a skeleton list of features.

These can then be implemented, and improved upon once we get user feedback. This is an example of iterative software development.

Compatibility

Within the iOS world we can think of both devices and iOS version compatibility (although the two are interlinked) and this will impact the features (of Swift and…

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