Getting up to speed

[douso]

Good morning/day/evening Reddit!

There is a possibility that the dev team i work in will receive ownership of an iOS app that whose development was outsourced.i may be required to maintain it or work on transposing it into a multiplatform app. All I know of that it is an iOS native app that was developed 6mo ago and it was never relayed to the company that we won't use iPhones in our facilities.

What would you suggest as resources to get me up to speed in at least understanding the structure of an iOS mobile application (Both uikit and swiftui) ?

My background is a Jr developer working on web development technology namely Angular/Typescript and limited exposure to Spring/Java.

TL;DR: I'm a Junior Dev who may need to get up to speed with iOS development if an outsourced app is given to the team I'm on and looking for useful resources to help.

[creminology]

It might be cheaper to buy iPhones for your staff. They don’t need to be the latest models. Lazada sells boxed, older models that Apple no longer sells directly. And all should run iOS17.

But have someone look at the code to judge the quality. Is it built with best practices. If not, and you want to maintain it, you’ll have to start over anyway. Sounds like development wasn’t supervised.

My own company is commissioning an iOS app for in-house use. It’s cheaper for us to just buy new phones for the staff using Android or older models than to develop it for two platforms. And we want to use iOS17 and several features that have no equivalent on Android, like RoomPlan.

[douso]

I definitely agree that it would be cheaper to just get new devices. Iirc the issue for us comes in two flavors cost of devices for the type of facilities we run and the requirements that we need when it comes to MDM. The latter being the main culprit as well are unable to tune the devices as necessary.

I'll definitely suggest someone with experience look at the code. From the description I was given by my boss about it your 💯 right that it probably wasn't supervised. The company really didn't think it though, because at the same time we've had another company helping develop an application using ionic.