Mobile foundations
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Understands mobile lifecycles, platform constraints, and interaction models.
Course coverage
- Mobile Development Fundamentals (planned)
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Software development
Mobile Engineer
Builds reliable, secure mobile applications for native and cross-platform runtimes.
Skill coverage
57%
Course coverage
57%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 7
- Published coverage
- 4
- Relevant courses
- 8
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
Mobile development
4 capabilities
Native development
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Builds applications using Android or iOS platform tools and conventions.
Course coverage
- Kotlin Fundamentals
- Android Development FundamentalsFree
- Swift Fundamentals, iOS Development Fundamentals (planned)
Cross-platform development
Importance: Important (3 of 5)
Evaluates and uses shared-runtime mobile frameworks appropriately.
Mobile architecture
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Structures state, navigation, persistence, networking, and platform integration.
Course coverage
- Mobile Application Architecture (planned)
02
Mobile quality
3 capabilities
Mobile testing
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Tests application behavior across devices, operating systems, and integrations.
Course coverage
- Mobile Application Testing (planned)
Mobile security
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Protects application code, local data, transport, and credentials.
Course coverage
- Mobile Application Penetration Testing
- Mobile Application Security (planned)
Mobile delivery
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Automates builds, signing, release channels, and store delivery.
Course coverage
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
- Mobile Application Architecture, Mobile Application Security, Mobile Application Testing, Mobile Development Fundamentals (planned)
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- Kotlin Fundamentals
- Mobile Application Penetration Testing
- Swift Fundamentals (planned)
Specializations
Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.
- Android Development FundamentalsFree
- Dart Fundamentals
- Flutter Fundamentals
- React Native Fundamentals
- iOS Development Fundamentals (planned)
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