On iOS C++ is generally only used when you don't need to make much use of the Cocoa Touch APIs. If you do, you will be using the hybrid 'Objective-C++' language

On iOS C++ is generally only used when you don't need to make much use of the Cocoa Touch APIs. If you do, you will be using the hybrid 'Objective-C++' language, and you will still need to use some Objective-C. See this Stackoverflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3804219/what-is-the-difference-between-c-objective-c-and-objective-c/3804297#3804297 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3804219/what-is-the-diffe... Basically, it's probably easier and less messy to just learn Obj-C.