ROADMAP.md

iOS Developer Roadmap

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• iOS Developer
  • Practical knowledge
    • Getting started
      • First pet project ideas
    • Languages
      • Objective-C
        • Blocks
          • Memory Management
      • KVC
      • KVO
      • Toll-free bridging
      • Runtime
        • Method messaging
        • Swizling
        • NSZombies and KVO implementation
    • Swift
      • Closures
      • Initializers
      • Generics
      • Protocols
      • Structs
      • Enums
      • Runtime
        • Method dispatch
    • Memory management
      • Stack and Heap
      • Value vs Reference type
      • MRC
      • ARC
        • weak references
      • Retain cycles
      • Garbage collector
      • Memory leaks
      • Shallow and deep copying
      • Autorelease pool
    • Multithreading and concurency
      • POSIX threads
      • NSThreads
      • Perform selector family
      • GCD
      • NSOperation(Queue)
      • Runloop
      • Methods of thread synchronisation
      • Problems
        • Race condition
        • Deadlock
        • Reader-writer problems
    • Cocoa Touch (iOSKit)
      • UIKit
        • UIApplication
          • States
          • UIApplicationDelegate
        • UIViews
          • UITableViews
          • UICollectionViews
        • Layers
        • Layout
          • Frame-based (manual)
          • Constraint-based (autolayout)
            • UIStackView
        • Animations
        • Transform
        • Screen transitions (Navigation)
        • ViewController
          • Lifecycle
        • UserNotifications
      • Foundation
        • Notifications, Delegation and observing
        • Collections
        • Networking
        • Serialization
          • NSCoding
          • Codable
          • JSON
          • XML
          • Protobuf
      • Core Location
      • Work in background mode
    • Software Architecture
      • Design Patterns
        • Architectural
          • MVC
          • MVVM
          • MVP
          • Clean architecture
            • VIPER
            • RIBs
        • Creational
          • Singleton
          • Factory
          • Abstract Factory
        • Structural
        • Behavioural
          • Observer
        • Concurrency
      • Design Principles
        • SOLID
        • Inversion of Control
          • Dependency Injection
          • Service Locator
      • Object-Oriented Programming
      • Functional programming
        • Functional Reactive Programming Frameworks
          • React Native
          • RxSwift
          • RxRealm, RxDataSources
    • Third-party dependencies management
      • Cocoapods
      • Carthage
      • Swift Package Manager
    • Project structure and File/Group organisation
    • Version Control Systems
      • Git
    • Debugging
      • Instruments
      • Best practices
        • Checklists
    • UX
    • Caching and Persistency
      • Core Data
      • Realm
      • YAPDatabase
    • Testing
      • Unit Tests
      • Snapshot Tests
      • Functional test
      • TDD
      • BDD
    • Performance optimization
      • Increase FPS
      • Decrease memory footprint
    • Code signing
    • Tools
      • Swiftlint
      • Sourcery
      • Fastlane
    • Continuous Integration
      • Jenkins
      • Xcode server
    • Security
      • Keychain
      • Security Transforms API
    • tvOS
    • WatchKit
  • Computer Science knowledge
    • Algorithms
      • Sorting
      • Graph Theory
        • Trees
      • Strings
      • Greedy
      • Dynamic Programming
      • Bit Manipulation
      • Recursion
      • Game Theory
      • NP Complete
      • Big-O notation
    • Abstract Data Types
      • Stack
      • Array
      • List
      • Map
      • Multimap
      • Set
      • Multiset (Bag)
      • Graph
      • Queue
      • Priority Queue
      • Double-ended priority queue
      • Double-ended queue
    • System design
      • Problems