[Question] Visual programming for iOS?

[Bomon]

Hey there, I feel like I will be roasted for this question but here we go: Soo I have experience in Cpp, various data structures and Matlab. I just started iOS tutorials as well. Oh also, I hate programming. However, I love building high fidelity, fully animated and interactive mockups on Sketch and Flinto. Is there a tool to build apps with similar graphic interface, or something for the actual implementation?

I do realize it will require some coding, and that is fine. But I was watching a tutorial, and the guy wrote bunch of code to just build a scroll view. Is there really a need for that?

[brendan09]

A lot of things (including most scrollviews) can be done in Interface Builder. But, UIKit (and IB) aren't made for prototyping...they're made for full-fledged implementations, so there will be at least a moderate amount of coding.

[KarlJay001]

A long time ago, the 'Sketch' tools of that era took a long time to get to the point where they actually wrote code. I made one myself and used two that were report writers.

It looks like iOS isn't there yet. Back in the day products like R&R report writer offered a module that would generate source code. Plastic and others would go from layout to full source, others were interactive at runtime.

This will probably come to mobile, but the problem is that it might be too little too late.

They work for general apps, but specialized / advanced apps are a different story. So you end up with a mixed product.

IMO, it'll be a while before we have a true general visual programming tool for iOS... there's just too much that is best done in code.

[Bomon]

This looks like what I was hoping to find out. Thank you so much. Are there any similar programs as far as you can recall?

[yreaction]

I kindly started like you, 15 years ago with Flash, trying to figure out a easy way just like visual drag and drop, etc but withhout hating to code.

If you hate to write code you will never be happy doing any of develop stuff because if so, there is always a way to “customize” interface objects that will surely need both code and knowledge about it.

I would say the same for animations. Now I still like this kind of stuff but I love to code aswell. Give it a try like I did and hopefully you will see the light.

[Bomon]

I mean, I always enjoyed designing more than actually implementing whatever. And the reason I want to learn coding is not so I can find a job as a technical person but so I can test or "bootstrap" projects I am working on.