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Mobile Engineer

Builds reliable, secure mobile applications for native and cross-platform runtimes.

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Skill coverage

57%

4 of 7 skills

Course coverage

57%

8 of 14 courses

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

Mobile foundations

Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Understands mobile lifecycles, platform constraints, and interaction models.

Course coverage

Mobile Development Fundamentals (planned)

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.

Course coverage

Dart Fundamentals

Flutter Fundamentals React Native Fundamentals 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

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Learning path

Relevant courses

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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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