Saturday, May 8, 2010

Cheating: Monotouch Developer

Ok. I have talked to many iPhone developers and I am finding that they recommend using native XCode (software that is provided by http://developer.apple.com

If you get totally frustrated, just have a simple app to create and want to just do it the old way in .NET as long as you know C#, there is a program for Mac called Monotouch.

Here is their website: http://monotouch.net/

I own a copy of it, and I have released apps using it.

Its a little clunky but it does the trick. My biggest complaint with it is that it really creates much larger executables and launching to the app store is kind of a pain. In all fairness to them, they claim version 2.0 recently released solves these issues. I have not personally verified that yet.

Coming from .NET

The reason I created this blog is that as a 10 year .NET developer I learned coding the hard way.... boys and girls this is a completely different animal altogether but I am loving every minute of it.