
Everyone has a mobile phone, but how does an app actually get onto it? This is a beginner-friendly tour of the mobile world, whether you write code or not.
We start with a simple question: why do we even need mobile apps when the web is right there? From there we follow an app on its journey to the customer and watch the friction you may face, from a web page you can ship in minutes, to a desktop app, to the app stores where going live is a real challenge.
Then the interesting part. How you actually build for mobile, native versus cross-platform like Flutter and React Native, and a question my colleague Callum put to me: if AI can write the code now, do we still need cross-platform frameworks at all? We will work through that together.
You will leave knowing how mobile development really works, and a curiosity to explore Mobile development
About Hark:
Hark is a Full-Stack Developer at SSW who builds clean, reliable software with a focus on user experience and delivery discipline. He joined SSW through FireBootCamp and works across Angular, .NET, Azure, and Flutter.

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Hark is a passionate Full-Stack Developer, who builds clean, reliable software with a focus on user experience and delivery discipline. He joined SSW Newcastle through FireBootCamp, SSW's intensive, real-world training program for elite graduates, where he worked in a high-pressure, consultancy-style environment, building production-grade solutions using Angular, .NET, Clean Architecture, and Azure DevOps. After impressing the mentors and senior architects, he was invited to join SSW full-time.