Not official, but: http://www.shrinkrays.net/code-snippets/csharp/monotouch-tips-and-snippets.aspx
"Masking the startup time of Monotouch When you build a Monotouch application with a provisioning license (whether for the appstore or not), the startup time is generally around 1-2 seconds. The Monotouch team are working on this, however as a stop gap solution a splash screen prevents your users seeing the black screen while it loads, and instead the splash screen launches instantly. This is easy to do, you just put a 320x480 pixel PNG file in the root of your project directory, and call it Default.png (the name is case sensitive). Change the build method of the file to "Content" and this the graphic will then appear instantly, while the application loads. One thing to note, as pointed out by Geoff Norton - the startup time depends on what your application is doing. Monotouch can in some cases be faster than an objective-C equivalent." There is no getting around the fact that a 4meg app vrs a 300k app is going to take longer to load. But it'll be milliseconds, not seconds, different. Most of it is down to you. On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 13:37, kbudris <[email protected]> wrote: > Does Xamarin have an official statement on this in the kind of concise yet > technical format that would satisfy a skeptical CTO? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/Performance-cost-of-MonoTouch-vs-Objective-C-tp3715348p3726872.html > Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch > -- Nic Wise t. +44 7788 592 806 | @fastchicken | http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicwise b. http://www.fastchicken.co.nz/ mobileAgent (for FreeAgent): get your accounts in your pocket. http://goo.gl/IuBU Trip Wallet: Keep track of your budget on the go: http://goo.gl/ePhKa London Bike App: Find the nearest Boris Bike, and get riding! http://goo.gl/Icp2 _______________________________________________ MonoTouch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch
