Swift Mobile App Development

Mobile app stores have hit a record high volume of downloads and an example to this statement can be borrowed from the Apple App Store. A ComScore report states that the available 1.2 million applications in the iOS app store occupy 42% of the market in terms of installations. Besides these impressive numbers, mobile development is set to become all the more lucrative with the launch of Swift, a multi-paradigm programming language. The language utilizes the Objective-C runtime in the XCODE IDE; works effectively with frameworks like Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, besides being able to work parallel with Objective-C.

This blog post has been created with the intention of highlighting some of the major features of working with Swift while developing mobile applications by the iPhone app development company California.

• Swift uses the LLVM compiler that transforms the source code into optimized native codes for enhanced performance on devices powered by the iOS operating system.

• The language has been designed to be inherently secure and resilient to errors with the use of inferred types. These patterns are also tuned for efficient integration using Cocoa as well as Cocoa Touch APIs.

• It is also more concise and has a clean syntax as compared to Objective-C. Developers working with Swift do not have to worry about memory management as it is automatically handled.

• Debugging in Swift is handled through an REPL (Run-Eval-Print loop), the performance of which is further enhanced with a highly interactive “Playground” view running in the XCODE IDE.

It will be a while before programming in Swift becomes mainstream and replaces Objective-C as the standard iPhone app development language. But until then, mobile application development requirements, with Swift, can be fulfilled by partnering with technology outsourcing partners.

Clavax Technologies is an iPhone app development company California, offering services in creating highly innovative as well as interactive mobile applications using the latest technologies and frameworks.