New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How long did it take you to learn (native) mobile dev?

Ask HN: How long did it take you to learn (native) mobile dev?
4 by diceduckmonk | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I've been a professional SWE for 8+ years now, but have never done iOS / Android development in a professional context. I've done iOS development for a school project, but it was haphazardly thrown together Objective-C. The app had memory leaks, so we had to make sure the professor didn't demo the app for longer than 5 minutes before the app crashed. I've been under the assumption that the problems of Objective-C that Swift solves was automatic garbage collection, but it seems to address a slough of other things first. Any experienced SWEs who found value out of attending a bootcamp or structured course to fast track mobile app development? I've been able to pick up specialities in other software disciplines such as data science, backend, frontend from first hand work experience, but mobile app development is usually a silo where the teams only hire people who are already well versed in mobile app development. It feels like there are many platform specific quirks and instances of "you don't know what you don't know", so a bootcamp would at least steer you down the happy path and from there you can start branching out and considering the tradeoffs of the happy path. Our team is making vendoring decisions between React Native versus Swift/Kotlin, the latter being outside our area of expertise to have opinions on.