I know there are a couple of apps already in development, but I kinda want to have a go to learn how to build an app in Swift. So what are some good resources to learn?

  • NotSteve_@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Do you have programming experience? I can’t tell from your post if you’re looking for API resources or general programming resources. If it’s your first time programming, making an app like that might be a bit of an overwhelming first project unfortunately

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        1 year ago

        You can start with smaller pieces of the app! Like one thing you can do is to try learning a bit of Python and play around by making simple requests to a Lemmy API to print off a list of posts from the front page.

        For learning I’d recommend checking out Codecademy. I got my start with programming there like 10 years ago and I feel like I owe a lot to the website. They have fully interactive tutorials and give you a great starting point.

        Good luck! :)

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    1 year ago

    Genuinely wouldn’t recommend it. But if you do decide to go through the pain, I generated an OpenAPI spec you can use to codegen the API in whatever language you want. I haven’t fully tested it, but it should be pretty close. I’m using it to make my own cross-platform client!