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iOS Developer Roadmap | SlaveCode
iOS Developer
Step by step guide to becoming an iOS developer in 2026
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Roadmap
Vedios and Other Resources
Projects
AI Tutor
iOS Developer
Special thanks to Dennis who helped publish
the initial version of this roadmap.
The Fundamentals
App Components
Setting Up
Navigating
Debugger
Interface Builder
Basics
Simple UI Building
Interfaces and Navigation
Design Architecture
— UI Kit Basics —
— Building Simple UIs —
Patterns and Techniques
Asynchronism
Common Services
Linting
Debugging
Testing
App Distribution
Continuous Learning
Have a look at the following relevant tracks
Storage
Visit his LinkedIn
Android
Flutter
React Native
Swift (Recommended)
History and Why Swift?
Benefits over Objective-C
Swift Basics
Objective-C
Objective-C Basics
Interoperability with Swift
iOS Architecture
Core OS
Core Services
Media
Core Graphics
Core Animation
AVFoundation
Core Image
Core Audio
Metal
Cocoa Touch
Core Programming Concepts
OOP
Functional Programming
Memory Management
ViewController Lifecycle
Error Handling
Concurrency (GCD, async/await)
Pick a Language
Version Control
Git
GitHub
Xcode
Installing
Preferences
New Project
Interface overview
Toolbar
Navigators
Editors
Project Files
Groups
Breakpoints
Debug Navigator
Stepping
Interface Builder
IBOutlets
IBActions
Auto layout
UIKit
Components
Views
View Controllers
User Interactions
Basic Interfaces
Storyboards
Xibs
Navigation
View Transitions
SwiftUI
Declarative Syntax
Components
State Management
Data binding
Building Interfaces
Views and Modifiers
Navigation
View Transitions
UI Design
HIG
UIKit
Views, View Controllers
Navigation Controllers, Segues
Navigation Stacks
Pushing Presenting
Modals and Navigation
SwiftUI
Navigation Stacks
Navigation View
NavigationLink
Presenting / Dismissing views
Core Animation
Basics / Creating Animations
Lottie
MVC
MVP
MVVM
MVVM-C
VIPER
TCA
Architectural Patterns
Reactive Programming
Combine
Publishers / Subscribers
Operators & Pipelines
Combine and MVVM
RxSwift
Observables & observers
Subjects
RxSwift with MVVM
Operators
Schedulers
Delegate Pattern
Implementing Delegates
Callbacks
Closures
Understanding and using Closures
Capturing Values & Memory Mgmt.
Callback Hell
Async / Await
Concurrency
Data Persistence
Core Data
User Defaults
Keychain
File System
SQLite
JSON / XML
Parsing
Serializing
Networking
HTTP / HTTPs
REST
GraphQL
URLSession
Alamofire
Concurrency and Multithreading
GCD
Operation Queues
Dependency Manager
CocoaPods
Carthage
Swift Package Manager
Frameworks & Library
XCFramework
Static Library
Dynamic Library
Accessibility
Accessibility Inspector
Voice Over
Dynamic Type
Frameworks
ARKit
HealthKit
GameKit
MapKit
Core ML
Code Quality Tools
SwiftLint
Tailor
SwiftFormat
Debugging Techniques
Xcode Debugger
Profiling Instruments
Unit & UI Testing
XCTest
XCUITest
Test Plan & Coverage
App Store Distribution
TestFlight
FastLane
CI / CD
Jenkins
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
GitLab
Azure DevOps
App Store Optimization (ASO)
Keeping Updated with WWDC
Latest Swift Version
Latest iOS SDK
New Feature Announcements