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Mobile App Development vocabulary · iOS, Android and Native Development

Swift

Meaning in mobile app development, with examples

/swɪft/nounCore term

In mobile app development, Swift means: The programming language Apple introduced in 2014 for building apps on iOS and its other platforms; it has largely replaced the older Objective-C.

In Turkish: Swift

How it is used

Job ads ask for Swift experience, often together with SwiftUI and UIKit. Developers talk about Swift versions, Swift packages (Swift Package Manager) and newer language features such as async/await and Swift concurrency.

Example sentences

  1. We're rewriting the old Objective-C screens in Swift.

  2. Candidates should have at least two years of Swift experience.

Common collocations

  • written in Swift
  • Swift developer
  • Swift package
  • Swift concurrency
  • iOSApple's operating system for the iPhone. Apps for it are built with Apple's own tools, mainly Xcode and the Swift programming language.
  • XcodeApple's development environment for writing, building, testing and publishing apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and other Apple platforms. It runs only on macOS.
  • SwiftUIApple's declarative framework, introduced in 2019, for building user interfaces in Swift by describing what the screen should show for each state.
  • KotlinA modern programming language created by JetBrains that Google recommends as the main language for Android development; it works alongside Java code.

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