Gradle: Oh My God! Gradle takes forever to run builds.Supporting the staggering amount of devices to support might just overwhelm anyone. Fragmentation: I feel this might be on top of every ones list.But from what I have been seeing it wouldn’t have been pretty. I haven’t got the chance to use it in the early days. If the location can be simulated why not the Camera? Camera: Possibly due to hardware limitations camera was not supported in simulators.Secondly, it increases the build times by a lot. Cocoapods: is getting worse day by day because it’s repo is getting so big.It is worrisome that the methodology keeps on changing. Design: Initially to design UI there was struts & springs, then came the Autolayout and now the SwiftUI.Last but not the least, XCode takes around 12GB of the space. What’s worse is it requires more than 40GB of free space to get installed. Updates: Each update is around 10–12GB even the minor upgrades.Overall it occupies around 50GB if I don’t clean up regularly. Archives take a huge chunk and so as the simulators. For every new device on which the build needs to run it occupies 3 GB. Memory Hog: Somehow XCode keeps on hogging memory.But, it’s still confusing with the signing certificates and the provision profiles for someone who is a beginner. Signing & Deployment: With the latest version’s it’s getting easier.It’s best to setup a CI/CD to archive and upload builds. Build Times: It takes a lot of time to create an archive or to run on a device for the first time.Secondly, the autocompletion doesn’t work many a times or gives weird suggestions that are out of context. Auto-completion: Firstly, who in the right mind would set Esc as the suggestions key.Here is a list of all the issues even after 15 years: Here’s an honest review of the mobile development tools and technologies. That’s when I realised how horrible the mobile development tools are.Įnough with the chit chat. We have since then been working on full stack. I have got a fair share of experience with Android development as well, around 3 years to be precise. Eventually I started my own firm Royale Cheese with a friend that provides mobile design & development.Īfter around 4 years of iOS development I found my way into Android development. My iOS experience was nothing but exciting in those initial years.
I worked as BlackBerry developer in the beginning but switched to iOS development eventually. It was overall a great learning experience.įor my full-time job I switched to a start up named Spinlet which I hope is still going strong. I did my internship working on the famous Zagat app for BlackBerry.
I feel old already!Įclipse was our best friend back then for mobile development. I started my career with BlackBerry (BB) Development. I have been in the industry for more than 11+ years now.
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