My number one tip for becoming a better iOS developer

Watch this video to learn my number one tip for learning iOS quicker, levelling up faster, and become a better programmer all at once.
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[@JonathanLeon]

Amazing tips! I'm currently learning Swift and its an interesting experience.

[@smilebot484]

Great advice. I think one way I've changed the way I learn is that I try to play a video on my ipad and code along on my Mac. But I think having one massive repo with everything in it is great advice. Realistically you can put not just notes but also projects and playgrounds all in one repo.

[@chrisk3197]

Amazing tip. Just setting this repo up has been great github practice for me. Definitely going to use this idea to learn and practice.

[@swiftarcade7632]

Awesome Chris. I think it is key on so many levels. 1. You learn github. 2. You have a playground. 3. It makes you look active. 4. You are going to learn so much. Cheers and good luck!

[@sudharsandevarajan6783]

Loving it..thanks for the wonderful tip

[@whansen101]

Dude, you are truly amazing, this is so helpful!

[@swiftarcade7632]

Thanks Warren. Glad you found it useful. All the best.

[@teo_d_david]

Very good advice. Once i get my macbook, I will do it.. Thank you.

[@cselaw8152]

Wow, very valuable info. Thank you for sharing!

[@swiftarcade7632]

Most welcome CSE Law. Thanks for dropping by.

[@JigneshPatil]

Oh my word!! Thank you so much!! This is really valuable.

[@swiftarcade7632]

Very welcome Jignesh. All the best.

[@devrogerio]

that wonderful content, is helping me a lot. I have used along with the bootcamp in swift that I am doing. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@swiftarcade7632]

Hey that's so great to hear Rogerio! I know what learning this stuff is like. These I videos I wish existed when I was learning iOS. So glad they are helping you figure things out and get more productive as a developer. Thank you so much for the comment. I am trying to grow the channel. This definitely helps. All the best - Jonathan

[@literallyIvan]

Great advice! Thanks

[@swiftarcade7632]

Most welcome.

[@jawadsrour8490]

Just discovered this channel. Great great content!!!

[@swiftarcade7632]

Most welcome Jawad. Thanks for the comment.!

[@buendiaoma]

Great idea, Thanks a lot, I gonna try it right away!!!!!

[@swiftarcade7632]

Do it!

[@reece5863]

Thanks for this. You can be a bit scary at times with how technical you get. But I appreciate you.

[@chuonraksa5326]

Great tip, Thanks

[@swiftarcade7632]

You are very welcome!

[@aafaqahmed2265]

Hi Jonathan, thanks for your advice. I tried working on your advice and outputs are awesome. Now I am eager to now which Markdown editor do you use for taking notes?

[@adarshraj312]

Great ,Thanks for sharing this video. i did same on GoogleDrive. But, Github is greater option and i'm shifting on it.

[@syedrazackimran]

I appreciate your work. It's helped me to know about all UI components and foundation kits.

[@swiftarcade7632]

That's great to hear Syed. There is definitely a lot out there. Don't let it overwhelm you. You can tackle each one at a time. All the best. Jonathan

[@problem.solver]

You are brilliant and I think you know that, haha. Any comming full uitest courses? I would love to get it your way.

[@swiftarcade7632]

Hi Ramy. No I am not brilliant :) No plans for a full ui test course, but I did cover a fair bit of unit testing and view controller testing in my latest course - Professional iOS Development - you can check it out here - www.udemy.com/course/the-swift-arcade-professional-ios-development-course-uikit/?referralCode=2A5FFBFFF1F8013C3271 - Thx and all the best.

[@pitmanra]

Thanks for the video. Would you be interested in doing one that walks through your GitHub process, including MacDown?

[@swiftarcade7632]

Will see what I can do. Thx Pitmanra.

[@Notkdenben]

@@swiftarcade7632 I know this is a year after the fact but I also would be interested in seeing this if you’re able to get around to it. I’ve been kind of ignoring GitHub as a whole since learning Swift is already daunting enough for me. I haven’t really taken the time to explore GitHub and your tutorials have been extremely helpful. I would love to see the process as well.

[@user-yd9xy3rb4x]

Time to learn advanced patterns.

[@swiftarcade7632]

Absolutely!

[@abdorizak]

The best way to learn programmatic Ui I'm beginner at swift uikit

[@swiftarcade7632]

We all are beginners at some point Abdorizak. Welcome to the channel.

[@abdorizak]

@@swiftarcade7632 thanks major 💯

[@peetafunkadelic]

Hello there Jonathan, maybe odd question. But how do you maintain that repo? I mean, do you write your mark down in then web IDE (if GitHub does have one, Gitlab does) or locally eg with VSCode a then push it to remote? I do something similar for myself but I hold it on some more “convenient “ platform like Confluence or Notion. Thanks for potential answer.

[@swiftarcade7632]

So what I do is spike out the code I want. Create any pictures I think will help. And then bring it all together in MarkDown with a code editor (I use MacDown) and then push it up to my repos. Then, wherever I am working, I can pull my repos down. Or I can just go to my github website, see the page I created, and then pull whatever code example I need from there. So I treat it like a regular code repos. I will do edits locally and just push them up. Thanks for asking!

[@doodmac7458]

It would be awesome to see a step by step tutorial of your process.

[@peetafunkadelic]

@@doodmac7458 I did something for myself like following. Created repository on Gitlab. Connected to with my local one. And every time I do some changes to that “Wiki” (using VS Code for editing). Commit & push to remote.

[@joshkinney5091]

@@peetafunkadelic I just found a cool way to organize my learnings with GitHub. Video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKPIYZWvgcmkrNk

[@peetafunkadelic]

@@joshkinney5091 Cool. Actually, I used the approach Jonathan has shown only for "team" wiki. For my personal knowledge management I went different way though.

[@jasondhindsa6774]

It's a great idea in this video, however, often times I get stuck/confused during the learning process and I'm not sure how to proceed sometimes.

[@swiftarcade7632]

I hear ya Jason. That's why I like this idea of creating small focused playgrounds so you can just get in there and experiment.

[@jasondhindsa6774]

@@swiftarcade7632 Totally agree! Thank you for the great videos! You deserve way more subscribers!

[@jasondhindsa6774]

How did you create the table of contents that you have in the main page of your GitHub repo?

[@swiftarcade7632]

Its just a markdown file. Pull the repos and you can see the source. Cheers.

[@maxspeed2k]

I like the mug!!...looks like you got it from the apple store in cupertino.

[@swiftarcade7632]

You have a good eye Macspeed. And you are indeed correct. I did get that mug from Cupertino!

[@nileshjdarji]

Anyway you can share your repo. It looks fantastic.

[@swiftarcade7632]

Absolutely. Sorry I should have left at top of notes. Repos is here: github.com/jrasmusson/ios-starter-kit

[@nileshjdarji]

@@swiftarcade7632 thank you sir.

[@CielLearcen]

@@swiftarcade7632 this repo's the gem!

[@odiadavid6957]

❤❤

[@abcde7748]

Please add Eng Sub! Thank you

[@swiftarcade7632]

Will see what I can do ABCDE. Cheers.

[@user-vo7vr2ns9k]

ZBS

[@shahratinmahmud]

You didnt know swift ui in the 2021? are you kidding me?

[@swiftarcade7632]

I still don't know SwifUI. But I am learning :)

[@AzakeCoffee]

Music distracts of topic. Please more info, less music.

[@swiftarcade7632]

Noted :) Thx Aza.