Mobile App Development
Prerequisite: Umuzi’s Full-stack Web Development programme (or similar)
Qualification: National Certificate in Information Technology (Systems Development) (NQF Level 5)
Typical learning time: ±12-18 months full-time; ±24 months part-time
What does a Mobile App Developer do?
Mobile app development is a subset of software development specialising in mobile technologies like web based hybrid mobile development (Ionic), Android (Google), and iOS (Apple) platforms. Mobile Developers solve problems and build products for mobile devices. This may include ideation, prototyping, writing code, testing and fixing bugs. They may work on projects using and adapting web apps for mobile.
With the available technology evolving rapidly, and the use of mobile devices accounting for an ever increasing proportion of internet usage, the demand for, and marketability of mobile development skills is also growing.
On the Umuzi programme, you will learn the foundations of building mobile applications before specialising in one of the most important and common mobile development platforms, either:
Web based hybrid
google Android
apple iOS
Your learning journey with Umuzi:
Mobile App Development
Step 1: Complete Umuzi’s Full-stack Web Dev programme (or similar)
(i) Basic coding practices
Foundations of programming
Learn about object oriented programming and test driven development.
Tools of the trade & good practice
Basic code architecture and clean code, using Git and GitHub for code management and version control, incl. pull requests and code reviews.
(ii) Frontend development
(iii) Backend development
Step 2: Foundations of Mobile Application Development
Accelerate productivity with this build automation tool for multi-language software development.
Develop & deploy app software in a cross- platform computing environment.
Learn about relational databases & data structuring with PostgreSQL.
Create stand-alone micro services with this open source Java framework.
Learn RESTful API architectural style & Java Database Connectivity API for Java.
Step 3: Choose one of these three specialisations
1. Web based hybrid
Javascript & Ionic
Learn JS, the language of the web & use the rich ionic library to access native device features and plug-ins.
Angular / React / WebComponents / Vue.js
Fill your toolbox with the preferred tools of your organisation to build on your ionic foundation.
2. Google Android
Kotlin
Write better Android apps faster with Kotlin, the first choice from Google I/O 2019.
3. Apple IOS
Swift
A powerful and intuitive programming language particularly suited to iOS applications.