Tuesday, 16 November 2010

iPhone Apps?

This week I have mainly been thinking about writing an App for iPhone.

To help me along I have been reading a book "Advanced iOS 4 Programming" by Maher Ali.

The initial hurdles to overcome are:

1. A new language: Objective C. and
2. A new Api for interacting with the OS and the device.

My first shock was how low level everything seems: writing in C and having to do your own memory allocation and garbage collection seems painful after a few years of Python. My second shock was the syntax of method calls. Its a mixture of square brackets and dots .... oh well I suppose its just syntax.

Will let you know how I get on!

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