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GraphQL was conceived almost four years ago to serve the needs of Facebook's iOS developers. Outside of Facebook however, non-JavaScript GraphQL clients haven't received as much attention. In this talk, I will explore the use of GraphQL to build native mobile apps. I will discuss some of the design decisions faced when developing a native GraphQL client, and illustrate these with examples from a Swift client. Among other things, I will show how to exploit code generation and the strongly typed nature of GraphQL to present a typed interface to query results.