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iOS

Jwan Khalaf
Jwan Khalaf
1,977 Points
Posted by Jwan Khalaf
Jwan Khalaf
1,977 Points

iOS app architecture

Hi Guys

My paid profession is a web developer in ASP.NET MVC C#. I have signed up to Treehouse specifically to start learning iOS app development. I have completed the 'Building iOS Apps with Swift' track.

The apps built were simple single paged applications. I have an idea for an app, but even after finishing the Swift track, I am still unclear on many aspects.

One of the main things I am concerned about is App Architecture. In my .NET web applications, I create a project for each layer of my web application (all projects sit within a solution in Visual Studio). So often I have a domain layer, a services layer and a web layer.

When developing iOS apps, can I do such a thing? I don't mean having the view, controller and model in a separate file, I know how that bit can be done. I am talking about even more separate break down of the three parts (Model, View and Controller).

The app I have in mind is still simple enough, but would have to involve (I hope) correct architecture so that I can scale it easily in future versions. It is basically a quiz app. A user (aimed at children) would see a picture of a fruit, and they would have to guess the name of the fruit from three given options.

Questions I have include:

  1. Best way to store all data related to a question? For example, the fruit image, and the three text options that go with it.
  2. How to have a start screen, where user can select difficulty (there are some very rare/unknown types of fruits ... these would go in High Difficulty).
  3. Play background music and have a settings page, where user can disable music playback.

These are only some of the questions I have. PS. I have the design of the app ready in Photoshop.

Any help and advice on how I should go about developing this app would be greatly appreciated. Do you see any possible pitfalls that I should look out for?

Thank You.