Developing on WP7 vs Android vs iPhone

Post by ekidd » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 12:27 AM UTC

WalterGR wrote: post #18

ekidd wrote: post #10

Summary: The author is a long-time Windows developer and extremely familiar with Visual Studio. He likes the WP7 development environment best. He can deal with Eclipse for Android, but he finds iOS development with Xcode counterintuitive. I'm not sure the author is really distinguishing between his personal tastes and the actual characteristics of each platform. But his personal tastes are shared by an enormous numbe…

Summary: The author is a long-time Windows developer and extremely familiar with Visual Studio. I don't understand where you got your summary. Looking at his CV - http://home.pacbell.net/eevans2/resume.html - it seems he has a range of experience.

Post by smhinsey » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 12:51 AM UTC

ekidd wrote: post #31

WalterGR wrote: post #18

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Summary: The author is a long-time Windows developer and extremely familiar with Visual Studio. I don't understand where you got your summary. Looking at his CV - http://home.pacbell.net/eevans2/resume.html - it seems he has a range of experience.

I don't understand where you got your summary. From this part of the article: I admit that I’ve spent many more years developing in Visual Studio than Eclipse or Xcode... Based on my own years in Visual Studio, I assumed that this meant Windows development of one flavor or another.

Post by MikeW » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 1:07 AM UTC

Post by jrockway » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 1:49 AM UTC

farhadabas wrote: post #14

TomOfTTB wrote: post #11

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I don't think enough people bring up the advantage Expression Blend brings to the table. It's like being able to design your UI in Photoshop (Say what you will about Microsoft the one thing you have to give them credit for is the amount of money they spend to create developer tools) Things might change once Adobe gets Flash up to speed on Android but until then Blend is by far the most powerful UI environment availab…

Yes, most people don't even know that Expression Blend exists. The first time I used it to customize my UI in Silverlight, I was blown away how quick and painless it was. To simply change the look of a button in Android, I had to spend far too long creating .9png files or w/e they are called.

Post by nlogn » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 2:50 AM UTC

S_A_P wrote: post #9

cschep wrote: post #2

"Objective-C sucks" is just silly. If you know and like C#, of course you'll like developing for WP7 more. Weird that he talks about null references in Objective-C but you can send all kinds of messages to nil and you'll be fine. Not so in C#/Java.

I actually was just wishing c# had as terse of a null check syntax as ObjC. I love the fact that I can type if(!object) [[Do something]about it] vs if(object == null) DoSomething.Aboutit I know its a small thing, but my typenames are usually lengthy so in practice C# statements can get character heavy.

  public static bool operator true(Class c)
  {
      return c != null;
  }

  public static bool operator false(Class c)
  {
      return c == null;
  }