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I've got yet another .NET shop, and have been meaning to break into mobile market(beside WP7, I know). Trying to weigh the benefits of going native (i.e. learn
by Killah911 16y ago
I've got yet another .NET shop, and have been meaning to break into mobile market(beside WP7, I know). Trying to weigh the benefits of going native (i.e. learning/hiring iOS/Java) vs using something like mono & present talent. Feedback would be greatly appreciated :)
- glhaynes 16y agoMy first thought would be that going from C# to Java or ObjC shouldn't be too difficult for decent programmers - that that's maybe 20% of the needed effort, tops. The "hard part" is learning the frameworks and patterns of the new platform. Additionally, not being able to directly use/learn from sample code (from the platform vendor or free on the net) is a significant downside.
- Glide 16y agoI'll just add that lot of iOS libraries out there have instructions like "copy the files into your project" in order to use the library. It might be difficult to use those projects in mono based iOS projects.
- loire280 16y agoThis has been my experience learning to program the iPhone. A few hours reading "Objective-C Phrasebook" by David Chisnall got me enough Objective-C to be comfortable with the syntax and understand some basic patterns. It took weeks of reading and experimenting before I felt like I wasn't cargo-culting the framework parts.
- Killah911 16y agoThanks, I'll invest in the books instead :)