Its been a week since I started off with application development using iOS. So far the experiences has been awesome. So if you want to write programs for iPhone/iPod/iPad, all you gotta do is,
- Get a Mac. You cannot develop apps from your pc. I tried using virtual machine, but it is NOT POSSIBLE AT ALL. Forget about your pc. Go get your mac !!
- Once you have your mac, navigate to http://developer.apple.com. You have so many resources out there which should get you on board immediately
Tips for beginners,
- Development Center – is really neat and way ahead than MSDN
- Programming Paradigm – is MVC and should be familiar if you were programming for quite a while
- IDE – XCode and InterfaceBuilder are the IDEs with which you write programs for iOS. Thou’ they are not as good as Visual Studio, they are pretty good for beginners
- Programming Language – ObjectiveC – so far is the biggest challenge for me. If you are new to this, you will find it to be really weird
- Unmanaged Code – if you are a .net programmer with no experience writing C/C++ programs, you should be extra careful in here
- Tutorials and Samples – development center has got everything for you. Do not worry about this
Overall, the experience is good and exciting so far.
