Apple’s smartphone OS running on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch hardware is iOS. For these computers, Apple offers tools and services for developing iOS apps and accessories.

You can use React Native (JavaScript) or Xamarin (C# & F#) as an iOS developer to programme in native languages like Swift or Objective-C or build native cross-platform applications.

In this article, we’ll explore how to build iOS apps. We’re going to look at how you can learn to develop an iOS application and play with existing apps.

As with learning something new, learning to build iOS is difficult. Although, It is enjoyable, exciting, and satisfying!

Here’s what we’ll get into:

1. Setup your MAC for ios app development
2. Setup, your editor for ios application
3. Create your first ios app
4. Run the ios application

Setup your MAC for ios app development

Apple prefers a closed ecosystem over an open system. iOS can only be run on Apple’s own devices, including the iPhone and iPad.

We can run Mac on window machines using VMWare or Hackintosh, but these are not recommended for iOS coding purposes. So basically, as an iOS developer, you will need a Mac for the development/debugging/testing of an iOS app.

2. Setup, your editor for ios application

To start developing iOS apps, Xcode is the only tool you need to download. Xcode is an integrated development environment (IDE) provided by Apple. It includes the iOS SDK (Software Development Kit), a source code editor(UI), debugging tools, and much more.