How to Build your first iOS app in 7 minutes using Cursor AI

I'm going to show you how to build your first IOS app no programming experience required at all we're going to do it all with AI using cursor AI the most powerful AI programming tool you can use we're going to build our own habit tracking app it is going to be sick we're going to have a ton of fun doing it and at the end of this you'll have your own IOS app that you built all by yourself that you can then use every single day let's go first thing you want to do is download X code this is the Mac

app that allows you to build and Run apps so make sure to go into the App Store search xcode download xcode get that popping once that's good to go make sure to open up xcode this is what you'll see we're going to create a new project we're going to click on app under iOS that should be the default option we're going to hit next let's name our project I'm calling this habit tracker feel free to follow along with me pause whenever you want download things start things code things whatever you want to do follow along with me I'm calling it habit tracker give it an organization identifier hit next and then we're going to choose a folder to put it in so you can create your own folder here uh I'm putting it in my habit tracker folder I created create in a second we're going to download cursor and start the cool AI stuff but just to get this up and running once this opens up all you have to do is you can hit play and what this is going to do is boot up kind of the default IOS app just so we can make sure this works so it opens up an iOS simulator this is an iPhone 15 Pro this boots up our boilerplate app so we can make sure it works boom hello world that works perfect let's go all right so go to

cursor. comom download that it's free get it popping get it open you're good to go cursor is the program we use to build apps without any coding at all you don't need a single day of experience building code to build apps of cursor once cursor is downloaded open it up this is what you'll see now let's open a folder we're going to open up the exact same folder we just opened up in xcode so find that folder open up the folder inside of it with the app click open boom that opens up the app in cursor now we have the same code opened up in xcode that we do in cursor so anything will show up in xcode and so basically this is how it works we're going to be doing everything with AI and cursor we're going to be telling cursor exactly what we want to be building with plain English using prompts it's going to edit the code and then we open it up with xcode to see what it looks like I'm going to show you exactly how to build your IOS app through here so what we're going to do is this open up the Habit tracker folder open up the content view you can see this is our main file what we're going to do is we're going to do command shift I this opens up our composer and what going to happen in our composer is we're just going to tell the AI exactly what we want to build so follow along with me step by step here I'm going to put in a prompt and plane English is going to say I want to build a habit tracking app let's build this

out step by step let's first add a way for users to enter in new habits build an input and a plus sign to add the habits I'm going to hit enter and what's going to happen is cursor in the AI is going to start writing the code for the app so I'm not writing anything here right here just puts in all the code for us and then down here in the bottom right it tells us everything it's doing it's adding new properties and we can just hit accept all and it adds in the code now let's go see what this looked like I open up xcode again let's hit play Let's see what this looks like let's see what uh cursor was able to build for us in that first step and again we're going to go back we're going to add a ton more to this but let's just see step one how this looks if it worked well this pops open the simulator again come on baby what do we got something good here what do we got boom look at that okay so we're building out our app all right let's enter new habit of working out and we'll hit the plus sign boom it adds The Habit okay and we'll do subscribe to Alex plus okay so we got the habits now we need a way to be able to check it off we need to be able way to check off every single habit so let's

go back in a cursor and keep building out this functionality so I'm back here in cursor let's go back into our composer and let's start adding in what we want okay so I put in our next prompt to what we want to build here I want to have a way to check off a habit when it's done put a checkbox next to every habit when a habit is checked put a celebration animation on the screen something like confetti I want to be able to check off habits and I want to get a really sick dopamine hit every time I do it too so I want a little bit of confetti let's hit enter again this is going to start building out the code for us I don't even know how any of this code works it just builds it out it's adding check boxes next to each habit and it's including a celebration animation when checked we use a simple confetti animation I love that let's accept all boom let's check on this again and before I press play on this to see what this look looks like if you learned anything so far make sure to hit subscribe below turn on the Bell hit the like button that will really help and let me know what else you want me to build in my videos everything I build in my YouTube videos are from user feedback so let me know in the replies what you want me to build out so I'm going to hit the play button here let's replace it let's see what this looks like I want to see a really nice confetti animation let's see it's loading up I want the sickest dopamine hit every time I do a new habit here we go okay let's enter a new habit eat my vegetables we'll hit plus there all right let's check it off look at that the confetti all right the confetti can use some work but we have the checkbox and we have a cool little confetti animation we're getting there I want to add another thing this I want to be able to have a calendar right so I can see which day so I can keep track of which days I'm actually doing the Habit so let's go

back here let's build out a habit tracking calendar so we can track which days we did The Habit so I'm going back into composer all right so we're going to do the this I want a calendar on the screen too that shows off which days I completed habits when I check off a habit the day in the calendar is filled with a color this is going to allow us to track our streaks how many days in a row we complete habits things like that let's hit enter I think this is going to be pretty cool we got our confetti we can check things off now let's track our streaks on a calendar all right certainly let's add a simple calendar view to show which days habits are completed we'll use a gitter rectangles to represent the days of the current month and fill them out with colors when a habit is completed on that day all right look at all this codes building out if I was developer this would take me hours to build out because I got AI on my side it just builds out in seconds this is too easy literally anyone can do this anyone I hit save on that let's open up xcode let's play that again come on baby look good for me here I mean what what's really revolutionary about this as this loads is the fact that anyone can come up with any ideas Now for iOS apps for anything and then just build it out you no longer need to have the technical skills anyone with ideas can build out apps now I think that's pretty revolutionary and something people aren't really thinking about all

right here we go look at the calendar that's pretty nice let's enter in a habit go for a run hit plus all right boom we got our habit there let's check it off oh we get the confetti and the day is checked off which today is the 9th boom it works perfectly that's sick we now have a habit tracking app I within a few minutes I have an entire app I built myself that I can now send to my phone if I want to put it on the iOS store I can put it there if I want to sell this for a buck I can put it on the store and sell it for a buck I have my own business I built an entire side hustle in what 5 minutes that's pretty incredible this is so much more powerful than you think you now have the power if you follow what I did here anytime you come up with an idea in your head about something you want to build you can just go to your computer and build it out you don't need to learn new skills nothing you have ai is your own personal employee building things out for you so next steps for you what we're going to do is in following videos I'll show you how to upload this to the app store to get it approved how you can start selling it and making money off of it but what you just did just now don't underestimate it you just built your own iOS mobile app if you learned anything make sure to hit subscribe below turn on the Bell notification hit like and then let me know in the replies what else you want me to build out all I do is make videos showing you how to build cool stuff with AI I'll see you in the next video