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Native iOS development made simple [video]

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Re: Native iOS development made simple [video]

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Post by bennyg »

dicroce wrote: post #6
nayefc wrote: post #3

From all the app code generators I've seen and used, the experience is absolutely horrendous. Memory leaks, does not five you full access into the API etc... It's a lot easier to suck it up and learn Objective-C than having to deal with these tools.

What would be cool is if someone who was a REALLY good objective C developer made a tool... So that the generated code was of the highest quality.

Part of me wants to and most of me doesn't haha. The problem is that design patterns change pretty frequently. I mean I cringed when I saw action sheets and their table views in the video. I'm working on a "Bootstrap for iOS" right now but the project is pretty much on the back burner due to some other iOS stuff I'm working on. I've released the colors part of what I was going to include (shameless plug: https://github.com/bennyguitar/Colours-for-iOS) and I'm going to release another couple classes soon that make some UI stuff a lot easier and streamlined.

Re: Native iOS development made simple [video]

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Post by tudorizer »

bennyg wrote: post #11
dicroce wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would be cool is if someone who was a REALLY good objective C developer made a tool... So that the generated code was of the highest quality.

Part of me wants to and most of me doesn't haha. The problem is that design patterns change pretty frequently. I mean I cringed when I saw action sheets and their table views in the video. I'm working on a "Bootstrap for iOS" right now but the project is pretty much on the back burner due to some other iOS stuff I'm working on. I've released the colors part of what I was going to include (shameless plug: https://gith…

Looks like a good start. I'll be watching this repo.

Re: Native iOS development made simple [video]

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Post by bennyg »

holgersindbaek wrote: post #14

Nice idea, but it seems like the only kind of apps you can build are apps that takes stuff from the web and put it inside the app. Well done that they have been able to build it though. How do you think they are porting the html/css code to Obj-C?

It looks like from the video it just writes it all and you drop an info.plist file and a build folder (probably with classes and all images) into your project. It doesn't show it, but my guess is that you then change the initial VC in the AppDelegate file and you're on your way.

Re: Native iOS development made simple [video]

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Post by atwebb »

nayefc wrote: post #3

From all the app code generators I've seen and used, the experience is absolutely horrendous. Memory leaks, does not five you full access into the API etc... It's a lot easier to suck it up and learn Objective-C than having to deal with these tools.

Out of curiosity have you used or seen Xamarin? I've heard a lot of hype and talked to fairly experienced people who say it doesn't add too much in size or performance cost.

Re: Native iOS development made simple [video]

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Post by aarondf »

I think this is a cool idea, but I think it might make sense to aim it at the Titanium platform. As a Titanium developer myself, I think this would go over extremely well in our community. I would assume that anyone who is comfortable enough in Obj-C wouldn't really want to use an app builder like this, but titanium devs are already using a "builder" of sorts since they are using the framework. Just a thought!
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