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Why iOS Interviews Still Ask About MVC

Why iOS Interviews Still Ask About MVC For almost twenty years, one of the most common architecture questions asked during iOS interviews has been surprisingly simple: "Can you explain MVC?" Almost every iOS developer has encountered this question at some point in their career. It appears in interview preparation books, online tutorials, YouTube videos and countless blog posts. Even developers with years of commercial experience are often advised to revisit Model–View–Control

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How to Prepare for an iOS Interview

Sometimes it's nice to be concise. If you do not yet have a written down structured plan of preparing for interviews then you could benefit from some guidance. Below are the steps to prepare for any iOS deverloper role.

Study core language features
Study memory management, arc, capture lists and when to use strong or weak.
Study protocol extensions and default implementations.
Study networking and write code to download json and map it to a struct using coding keys.
Study MVC, its history, what language it was for, and think about the divide between the business logic (The Model) and the UI that sits on top.
Think deeply about why the Model has no overall architectural design plan even though humanity has built hundreds of thousands of apps - maybe have one on your computer.
Practice how you would talk about Swift language features by answering technical questions - as many as possible!