Ask HN: iOS dev questions for clients

2 pointsby damon_c12 lat temu3 comments

I just got my first pro iOS dev job. It's for a pretty simple iPad app for a large corporate customer to use internally.

I was wondering if anyone had any advice as far as what I need to ask with regards to spec.

Is it reasonable to ask that I only need to support iOS 8?

2 comments

dep_b12 lat temu

If you use it internally you get to set the hardware platform and OS version. So just go for iOS 8 as there is no reason to buy iOS 7 based hardware for your customer, unless they have a large amount of iPad 2's already.

Jeremy102612 lat temu

You will likely have to support back to iOS 6. Depending on how large/spread out the company is.

Be sure to find out who is responsible for distribution of the application. Whether or not its going into the app store or will be directly enterprise distribution.

Will there be a backend? If yes, who is maintaining it?

damon_c12 lat temu

Thanks for the reply!

Thankfully, it could hardly be simpler. As I am a busy web dev, it's the perfect first iOS gig I think. No backend, just a bunch of static views linked to a home view.