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My 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, top
by glhaynes 16y ago
My 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 :)