Yeah, Xamarin has become very popular over the years. But as you suspected, you'll most likely still be spending time doing platform-specific coding. The same goes for pretty much any set of development tools. You can get a decent cross-platform application written in Java (including on iOS through RoboVM), but for that truly native look-and-feel you'll still need to have a different menu bar for Mac OS X than for Windows. Not to mention that Mac uses standard controls, Windows can also use touch, and mobile platforms use only touch. And each platform require its own type of packaging, albeit that this can be automated or outsourced.
Davy -----Original Message----- From: Gamers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Lemm Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2014 13:50 To: 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: [Audyssey] cross platform programming Hi, Chatting to one of my friends who programs for a living, I mentioned that I had started to learn BGT and was very slowly building a game. We got chatting about coding and he asked which platform the game would be for. Somehow we got chatting about cross platform and he explained he had just started looking into a platform called Xamarin, which allows you to write apps in C# for IOS, android , windows and MAC and use the same C# code for each platform. I know that talk of cross platform programming has come up here before and I'm pretty sure I've remember people saying its quite difficult to do, so I thought I'd just share this, it might be old hat to programmers on this list or just not be something for audio game development since the friend I was chatting with is a sighted programmer. Also to be fair since I'm only starting out in coding (topped with the fact we were also out drinking at the time and I'd had quite a few beers by this point) quite a lot of what we talked about went over my head but I think the thing he said that was so good was that even though its written in C# it is totally native to which ever platform you produce the app for. Paul Lemm --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
