I'm the lead developer on the mobile products at my company. For c# there's the http://xamarin.com/ company that sparked from the mono project, it claims it works for cross platform development.
Apart from that you basically have two options: 1) Native ios/andriod 2) wrap up a html5/javascript app in phonegap(or alternatives) We went back and forth between native and javascript for 4-6 months and ended up writing the app in html5/javascript. The primary argument is that the our app needs to support a mobile website (not just app), and after we've pushed the limits polishing the app in html5/javascript if it's still not up to the task and customers want more then we'll also a build a native version. For mobile frameworks you can check out sencha touch/jquery mobile. We ended up rolling our own html/javascript without using a framework, we used backbone.js/zepto/underscore templates. The LinkedIn ipad app is done in html5/javascript and they have some good blog posts. http://engineering.linkedin.com/ I'm actually working on a html5 cross platform boilerplate for people who don't want to use the lockin frameworks like sencha touch and jqm. A bit like the html5boilerplate/mobile but for phonegap apps. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > Folks, we have a working Silverlight 4 app out there at the moment with > some desktop support apps all written in .NET 4. Now and then when we demo > the SL4 app someone will ask variations on these questions:**** > > ** ** > > “...what’s your migration path away from Silverlight when it dies?”**** > > ** ** > > “...will the app be available for iPad or iPhone”**** > > ** ** > > I know the first question is floating around like a bad smell everywhere > and the answer depends who you ask. I believe that we’re talking years > anyway before such a thing would happen, and our app would be probably be > obsolete or rewritten by then anyway. So I’m not particularly worried about > that for now (unless I should be?!)**** > > ** ** > > The second question is a doozy and out of my areas of experience. Can > someone confirm that .NET and the runtime is not available for iPad or > iPhone? What kits and languages do you use to write iPad and iPhone apps? > Is Object C still for that sort of thing? Or Java? Or HTML5? If anyone > knows anything technical about writing apps for Windows and Mac and the > issues involved I’d love to hear your comments.**** > > ** ** > > Cheers,**** > > Greg**** > -- *Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital* Managing Director P. 0404 865 350 E. mich...@thinksmartdigital.com.au W. www.thinksmartdigital.com.au T. www.twitter.com/rid00z L. au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland <http://au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland>
