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Priya's Thursday, two ways

8 lessons · 25 prompts

A day in the life of a Mobile App Developer: what changes with these prompts.

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Priya, a mobile app developer on a small iOS and Android team.

Priya starts Thursday with a crash report from the checkout screen. The stack trace points to a nil cart item after a coupon is removed. She pastes the trace into Claude and asks for likely causes and a concrete fix. It suggests guarding the cart before totals are calculated. She tries the fix in a branch and the crash stops.

Next, a designer hands her a mockup for a new address form. Priya opens Gemini and asks it to turn the mockup notes into SwiftUI layout code with Dynamic Type support. She adjusts spacing and labels, then checks contrast. The first draft saves her from building the form from an empty file.

After lunch, she needs more test coverage around the coupon logic. She uses ChatGPT to generate unit tests for empty carts, expired coupons, and rounding. A few tests need small edits, but the edge cases are already named. She runs them and catches a missed currency case.

Before logging off, Priya writes a pull request description for the checkout fix. She asks Gemini to turn her rough bullets into a clear summary with the tradeoff she made. The PR gets a quick review because the notes are easy to follow. She finishes by 4:30 instead of 6. She uses the extra time to walk her dog and read a chapter of a novel.

Before

  • Crash reports sit open for hours
  • Mockups become slow layout work
  • Tests get skipped near deadlines
  • Pull requests need long explanations

After this course

  • Likely causes found in minutes
  • Layout drafts start from a prompt
  • Edge cases named before coding
  • Pull requests read clearly at a glance

What you'll learn

  • Draft code snippets: Ask for a working first draft of common code so you spend less time on boilerplate.
  • Decode stack traces: Turn cryptic errors and crash reports into likely causes and concrete fixes.
  • Turn mockups into layouts: Convert design mockups into layout code and spot accessibility issues early.
  • Draft networking layers: Build and test the networking layer, error handling, and mock data your app needs.
  • Generate unit tests: Produce unit tests, UI flows, and edge cases so your app is covered before it ships.
  • Review for bottlenecks: Find likely performance, memory, and battery problems and get suggestions to fix them.
  • Write release notes: Write release notes and store copy, and pre-check submission rules so updates go out smoothly.
  • Write pull requests: Communicate changes, tradeoffs, and work plans clearly to teammates and product managers.

How this course works

  1. 8 lessonsOne task of your job each, from drafting code snippets to write a pull request description.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish and keep the prompts as your own library.