Has anyone here had any ios develoment experience?

[SAWYER]

I have a few ideas for games on ios but I do not know the tools or language, but I think it could very well be worth the effort to learning. How has your experience been?

 

[mcmilljb]

Check this out. It may be able to help you do stuff without having to learn new languages.

http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-application-development/

 

[runawayprisoner]

Pay Apple $100 and you'll have access to all of the documents, videos, and learning guides you can get. Plus you get access to everything a Developer does.

If that's too steep, try looking up Objective-C online.

 

[blackdogdeek]

this series helped me out immeasurably:

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-iPho...0287268&sr=8-1

 

[gorcorps]

I thought the same thing until I learned what was needed to actually do it. You need to pay Apple $100 annually to be in their "developers program", even if you don't charge for your apps. If you want in the app store at all it costs you. As if that wasn't bad enough, you can only code iOS apps on a Mac. You can't do it in windows.

Knowing what a PITA it is to develop for the system I'm shocked at how many actually DO go through all this to put out apps. A lot of stupid ones too.

Anyway, purbeast0 here has android and iOS experience so I'd ask him. He'll probably see this and chime in soon anyway.

 

[speg]

$100 and a Mac are a "PITA" 😕

Anyway, I just started dabbling in iOS last month. It's just fine. Now if you're doing a lot of game stuff... that's a whole other ballgame. One I know nothing about.

Do you have any other programming knowledge?

 

[gorcorps]

$100 and a Mac are a "PITA" 😕

Anyway, I just started dabbling in iOS last month. It's just fine. Now if you're doing a lot of game stuff... that's a whole other ballgame. One I know nothing about.

Do you have any other programming knowledge?

Yeah... it is. If you have a mac that's super, but for the 85-90% of the PC userbase that doesn't it's a PITA. Why do I have to buy their special computer just to CODE? Seems like a ridiculous requirement to me. I can stomach the developers fee as it does take resources on their end to host files and review apps, but having to program on a Mac is so unbelieveably stupid.

 

[Nothinman]

Yeah... it is. If you have a mac that's super, but for the 85-90% of the PC userbase that doesn't it's a PITA. Why do I have to buy their special computer just to CODE? Seems like a ridiculous requirement to me. I can stomach the developers fee as it does take resources on their end to host files and review apps, but having to program on a Mac is so unbelieveably stupid.

And forcing you to use Objective C is another kick in the balls since it doesn't apply to any other system available. You pretty much have to buy into Apple's world 100% in order for it to be worthwhile.

 

[alfa147x]

Thanks for the links guys. Starting work on my GPS app soon