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Ios Developer Cheat Sheet

This document is a comprehensive cheatsheet for iOS developer interviews, outlining key topics, concepts, and sample questions across various categories such as Swift fundamentals, memory management, concurrency, SwiftUI, networking, data persistence, testing, architecture, app lifecycle, debugging, system frameworks, and version control. It also highlights newly added topics related to SwiftUI, including data flow, MVVM pattern, handling dynamic content, and navigation. The guide aims to help candidates prepare effectively for technical interviews in the iOS development field.

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Ios Developer Cheat Sheet

This document is a comprehensive cheatsheet for iOS developer interviews, outlining key topics, concepts, and sample questions across various categories such as Swift fundamentals, memory management, concurrency, SwiftUI, networking, data persistence, testing, architecture, app lifecycle, debugging, system frameworks, and version control. It also highlights newly added topics related to SwiftUI, including data flow, MVVM pattern, handling dynamic content, and navigation. The guide aims to help candidates prepare effectively for technical interviews in the iOS development field.

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iOS Developer Interview Cheatsheet

This is a comprehensive cheatsheet for iOS developer interviews, covering the most
critical topics, concepts, and sample questions. Use this guide to prepare for
technical interviews and gain confidence in tackling iOS-related questions.

iOS Developer Interview Topics


Category Key Topics Sample Questions

1. Optionals & Unwrapping


1. How does optional chaining work?
Swift 2. Protocols & Delegation
2. Explain the difference between weak
Fundamentals 3. Closures
and unowned references.
4. Generics

1. ARC (Automatic 1. What are retain cycles and how do


Memory Reference Counting) you resolve them?
Management 2. Strong, Weak, Unowned 2. How does ARC handle memory
3. Retain Cycles management?

1. Grand Central Dispatch


1. How do you handle background
(GCD)
tasks?
Concurrency 2. Operations &
2. Explain the difference between sync
OperationQueue
and async in GCD.
3. Async/Await

SwiftUI 1. View Lifecycle 1. How does @State work in SwiftUI?


2. State Management 2. How do you implement the MVVM
(State, Binding, pattern in SwiftUI?
ObservableObject) 3. How does data flow between views
3. Data Flow (@Published, using @Published and @EnvironmentObject?
EnvironmentObject) 4. How do you create reusable custom
4. MVVM Pattern in views in SwiftUI?
SwiftUI
5. Animations
6. Custom Views &
Modifiers
7. Handling Dynamic
Content
8. Navigation & Deep
Linking in SwiftUI
1. View Controller
Lifecycle 1. What is the lifecycle of a
2. Auto Layout & UIViewController?
UIKit
Constraints 2. How do you create a custom
3. TableView & UICollectionViewCell?
CollectionView

1. URLSession 1. How do you handle API requests in


2. Combine for Networking iOS?
Networking
3. Handling JSON Data 2. Explain the role of URLSession in
Parsing networking.

1. Core Data 1. How do you use Core Data for local


Data 2. UserDefaults storage?
Persistence 3. Keychain 2. How do you store sensitive
4. SQLite information in iOS apps?

1. Unit Testing (XCTest) 1. How do you write unit tests for


2. UI Testing view models?
Testing
3. Test-Driven 2. How do you perform UI testing in
Development (TDD) Xcode?

1. MVC 1. Explain the difference between MVC


2. MVVM and MVVM.
Architecture
3. VIPER 2. How do you implement dependency
4. Clean Architecture injection in iOS?

1. App States 1. How does an iOS app transition


App (Foreground, Background, between states?
Lifecycle Suspended) 2. How do push notifications work in
2. Push Notifications iOS?

1. Instruments for 1. How do you debug memory leaks in


Debugging & Performance an iOS app?
Tools 2. Breakpoints 2. How do you use Instruments for
3. Crash Logs performance profiling?

1. What is Combine, and how does it


1. Combine
System work?
2. Core Graphics
Frameworks 2. How do you play audio using
3. AVFoundation
AVFoundation?

1. How do you resolve merge conflicts


1. Git Basics
Version in Git?
2. Pull Requests
Control 2. What is the purpose of a pull
3. Branching Strategies
request?

SwiftUI Updates
Newly Added Topics
1. Data Flow in SwiftUI: Explaining @Published , @EnvironmentObject , and
@ObservedObject .
2. MVVM Pattern in SwiftUI: Structuring SwiftUI projects using the MVVM pattern.
3. Handling Dynamic Content: Best practices for managing dynamic text and content
sizes.
4. Navigation & Deep Linking in SwiftUI: Managing complex navigation hierarchies
and linking to specific app sections.

Feel free to suggest improvements or share your thoughts. Happy coding!

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