Mobile Platform Competencies

General Mobile Compentencies

• Proficent in Swift or Kotlin
• Experience with / understands nuances of mobile SDK development
• Understands mobile build system and dependency management
  • Android: Gradle, Maven Repositories
  • iOS: Swift Package Manager, Cocoapods, and Carthage

UI Presentment

Strength:

• Able to build out and style native UI
• Understands how platform specific UI classes are used
  • Android: Activities, Fragments, ViewModels, Views, Jetpack Compose
  • iOS: UIKit, UIView, UIViewController, SwiftUI
• Understands how to navigate to different screens within an app

Concern:

• Unsatisfiable UI constraints
• Creates a deeply nested view tree
• Ignores accessibility support

Background Work & Networking

Strength:

• Understands the execution of network calls within mobile
• Familiar with tools for asynchronous work
  • Android: Coroutines, RxJava
  • iOS: Combine (or other reactive frameworks), Concurrency

Concern:

• Network calls or long executing work blocks the UI thread

Mobile Architecture

Strength:

• Aware of mobile architecture patterns (MVVM, MVC, MVI)
• Provides a solution that has an easy to understand flow of data

Concern:

• Introduces business logic within the view layer
• No separation of concerns