Once you have a rough idea of what your project should do and who it is for, the next practical question is: what will you actually build it with? Every platform — Android, iOS, Windows, and the web — comes with its own expected toolchain, from design and prototyping software through to IDEs, UI frameworks, and testing tools. Choosing well early saves rework later; choosing poorly can lock your team into a workflow that fights your design goals or your available skills.
This topic surveys those options in two layers. The first is design and prototyping: tools like Figma that let you sketch, wire up, and test an interface before any code exists, so usability problems surface cheaply. The second is implementation: the native tool sets for each platform (Android Studio and Kotlin, Xcode and Swift, Visual Studio and .NET, plus the browser-based web stack) and the cross-platform frameworks such as Flutter, React Native, .NET MAUI, and Compose Multiplatform that promise one codebase across several targets.
As you watch, keep your own project in mind. Note what each tool assumes about your team's skills, what it makes easy versus awkward, and how much control it gives you over platform-specific interaction conventions. Pay attention to the trade-offs discussed around cross-platform work — code reuse, performance, access to native UI patterns — because those trade-offs are exactly the kind of justification you will need to write into your scope document.
A short beginner tutorial on building an interactive prototype in Figma, covering how to link frames, set up interactions and transitions, and play back the result. It is aimed at people new to the tool and focuses on the prototyping mode rather than advanced design systems. Expect a quick, hands-on walkthrough rather than a deep reference.
Figma is the de facto standard for interface design and prototyping across platforms, and this video gives a compact entry point into the prototyping subtopic from a UX-focused channel, so you can mock up and test screens before committing to a development toolchain.
The creator builds the same application six times using Flutter, React Native, .NET MAUI, SwiftUI, Capacitor, and Compose Multiplatform, then compares the experience and results. Expect discussion of setup, developer experience, UI capability, and the practical differences between native and cross-platform approaches. It is a comparison piece rather than a tutorial on any single framework.
This directly serves the cross-platform tools subtopic and also touches the native iOS and Windows stacks, giving you a side-by-side basis for arguing why one toolchain suits your project better than another.
An official Flutter video that introduces Flutter by mapping its concepts onto what an iOS developer already knows, covering ideas such as widgets, layout, and navigation in comparison to native iOS development. It is framed as an orientation rather than a full course. Viewers unfamiliar with iOS can still use it as a contrast between a native and a cross-platform mental model.
Coming from the Flutter team itself, it is an authoritative look at how a cross-platform framework relates to a native platform's tooling and conventions — useful context when weighing iOS development tools against a shared-codebase approach.
Together these videos move from design tooling to implementation tooling, which is the bridge between deciding on a platform and planning the work. The Figma tutorial supports MO3 by showing how prototypes can make objectives and success criteria concrete before development starts. The six-framework comparison and the Flutter-for-iOS orientation support MO1 and MO2 by exposing the real constraints of each platform's toolchain — native UI fidelity, code reuse, and developer effort — so your platform choice can be justified against stated project requirements rather than preference alone.
These videos were chosen from YouTube on October 3, 2026. Each has captions; the player turns them on. Videos on YouTube can be changed or removed — if one no longer plays, tell your instructor. If a player does not appear, use its Watch on YouTube link.