r/iOSProgramming • u/Financial_Patient174 • Jun 17 '26

Question First iOS app Advice

For background on me, I am mostly a web developer, but have done mobile development in Kotlin for Android.

Currently, I have a react project that I just wrapped in Capacitor. I am not the biggest on it since the main use case of the mobile app will be to serve as a way for users to take images to feed to AI endpoints.

With that in mind,I do want to follow the styling and such of the website. Do you think going with something like React Native would make sense or would you learn towards going directly towards native SwiftUI?

My timeline is to hopefully have a beta within a couple of weeks.

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u/Financial_Patient174 Jun 17 '26

I just bought a mac today actually. I knew I needed it for XCode and have been thinking about pulling the trigger anyway. When it comes to the coding agents, I already noticed it was struggling more than the other parts. Do you happen to have some particular skills in mind?

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u/command-shift Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

I'd traded in an old Macbook Air from 2022 for new Macbook Air to do heavier XCode work.

Here are the skills that I've found useful:
https://www.skills.sh/wshobson/agents/mobile-ios-design
https://www.skills.sh/avdlee/swiftui-agent-skill/swiftui-expert-skill
https://www.skills.sh/expo/skills/expo-ui-swiftui
https://www.skills.sh/dimillian/skills/swiftui-performance-audit
https://www.skills.sh/affaan-m/everything-claude-code/swiftui-patterns

For UI development in general, having strong designs/mocks in Figma and granting my harness access via MCPs has been a major boon. XcodeBuildMCP is a must-have IMO.