> - As I have seen, the development of MonoTouch was formerly owned by Novell > and is now under this new company, Xamarin. Looking at the time and license > investment, how sure is it that MonoTouch will continue to live in the coming > years? Would I be better off to invest this time into learning Obj-C? >
Well, I think they are going to be going for a while, tho it's impossible to know without a time machine and a copy of their financials. However: however, in their job ads: "We sell a mobile platform that makes building great apps much easier. We're 4 months old. We're more than 30 people. We have thousands of paying customers and we're already profitable. We're pre-VC. We don’t have sales or marketing yet. In a recent customer survey, 90% of paying customers said they would be "very disappointed" if they could no longer use our product." > - So far, I have read a bunch of articles and got myself the Apress book on > MonoTouch. As I see, it doesn't target Xcode 4, Lion, etc… . What would be > the best path for me to learn efficiently how to code using MonoTouch? (Read > the book, get another one, read a website I'm not aware of at the moment, > etc… ?) Yes, it does. All the books are out of date :) (it would be hard not to be out of date - it's moving VERY VERY quickly) A lot of people (including me) are using it on Lion, with XCODE 4 (**cough** iOS5 GM SDK). XCode 4.x has worked with MT for a while, but you need MonoDevelop 2.8 to use interface builder, which was released last week. Personally, I dont use Interface Builder) Personally, I'd write some code. Pick a small task - RSS reader is good one :) - and write something. Or have a look around github for other peoples code: https://github.com/migueldeicaza https://github.com/martinbowling https://github.com/chrisntr https://github.com/follesoe https://github.com/nic.wise etc -- Nic Wise t. +44 7788 592 806 | @fastchicken | http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicwise b. http://www.fastchicken.co.nz/ Nearest Bus: find when the next bus is coming to your stop. http://goo.gl/Vcz1p 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
