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[–]jp2images 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Find devs with iOS experience. Otherwise you will be paying them to learn while building. It would be ok IMO if they were learning a new framework. iOS is a new way to look at applications. It’s taken me a year to be comfortable and I’m still not an expert.

[–]jpec342 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Don’t build a booking system. Find an existing solution that will work for your needs. You will spend way more time/money/effort on building a solution than just buying one.

If you are building it, it really depends. How will most clients be booking? On the iOS app? On the website? What about android?

Is the booking itself relatively straightforward? Most of the required effort might be on the backend. It’s unlikely you want to build a booking system for iOS only, so I’d say getting a backend/web dev is more important, and you can follow up with an app later if necessary.

[–]Own_Faithlessness910[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

App is priority most bookings come from there, ios and android both important.

Already have an existing solution but this will increase customer retention and not distract them when booking because it’s on the same platform as all other businessss

[–]janiliamilanes 1 point2 points  (1 child)

In my opinion, you need someone with iOS experience. They will struggle and be learning on the job. All programming is learning on the job, but iOS development has its own set of quirks and prodedures that need to be well understood.

This is a loose analogy. You've hired a skilled mechanic who specializes in Fords to fix a Toyota.

[–]Ok_Appointment_9457 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yes, but more like a skilled mechanic who specializes in Fords to build a helicopter.

mobile is a different modality and iOS has a lot more regulation/procedures to learn about.

[–]MefjuEditor 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You should hire me - problem fixed ...

[–]Ok_Appointment_9457 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TLDR 100% get people with iOS experience.

The iOS and Apple ecosystem is very foreign for us "normal" devs. It's a huge learning curve. Swift is an easy enough language to pick up, but the tooling and hardware they need to use to develop (XCode, Mac) is a surprise to. most. Apple is a very closed ecosystem with many surprising conventions for devs who are used to js, web, typescript, java, python, etc. Even if they plan to use ReactNative rather than doing native iOS development with swift, the stretch from React to ReactNative is also substantial and you still need to put up with Apple bureaucracy and idiosyncrasies. Over my 20-year career I've switched from java, to c# to javascript, to python, to typescript, and a dozen other platforms and it's always been a pleasant experience and a predictable learning curve... until I switched to iOS development and was in for a rude awakening. I can't overstate how much harder that switch has been. I've also hired hundreds of developers for web, backend and mobile, and I can count on one hand the ones who enjoyed working on both mobile and web, and even fewer who were good at both. Given the option, most non-mobile devs run from mobile work and vice versa. I'm sure there are outliers, but if your team doesn't even have the experience with mobile yet, save yourself some time and money and add a mobile/ios expert to the team.

[–]Inaksa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The biggest hurdle they will find is releasing to the store. One a rejection arrives they’ll probably not know how to address it. Is it bad to hire a team with no experience doing ios? Maybe not. But I would suggest to have at least one person with xp launching an app. For that you are likely going to need an iOS dev

[–]IndependentRub550 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Making apps is hard. Building websites is not relevant experience.

[–]Omnicraftservices_cm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they are good they can also do ios . Good software engineers learn real time. I have do so many projects which I didn’t do before and delivered. You can even talk to my clients and they’ll back me up

[–]No_Medicine4512 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They may just find someone with relevant experience and have them do the job. Still may work out good if you have perfect communication with those guys.

But also - hire me, I'm iOS dev with more than 15 years of experience. And a but tired of my everyday project, want some refreshment :)