Comments on: iPhone Development, a bad use of time for a .NET Developer?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:25:35 +0000

All good points! I think it would be a good move for Apple to support the MonoTouch project to a point, because there are tons of .NET developers that don’t want to learn Cocoa or Objective C.

For me, I still think it is a waste of my time to target the iPhone. Another possible avenue would be utilizing HTML5 in some way.

However, I’m not sure if you can install an HTML5 based application on the iPhone. If you could, that would be by far the best use of my time if I were to build an iPhone app. It would be a compelling avenue for lots of developers I would guess as well… (PHP developers, Python developers, etc).

Cheers,
Jon

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:59:42 +0000

Good point about the native GUI … I wonder if there will be any licensing issues?

Hopefully they’ll integrate the new iPhone 3.0 features (Push, Copy & Paste, etc.) into the SDK.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:38:18 +0000

Hi Brian,

Great information! I just saw the MonoTouch as well recently. I wonder how good the GUI components are going to be. Are they the exact look and feel of the iPhone widgets?

Cheers!
Jon

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:22:00 +0000

Jon,

I use a Mac/PHP at home and .net at work … Just saw that Mono “… open source, UNIX version of the Microsoft .NET development platform.” is working on “… MonoTouch is the edition of Mono for the iPhone. A beta will be available for testing in the first week of August of 2009 and hopefully it will be commercially available in September. ” http://bit.ly/15V9AF

This could be a way of working on your new iPhone projects with your Mac and using your .net experience.

In the meantime you could experiment with creating cross-platform apps with the free Mono IDE.