RE: Questions about iPad and iPhone

2012-07-10 Thread Greg Keogh
Thanks folks, I've forwarded the replies to my colleague who manages these matters. Lots of new jargon and ideas for us to digest -- Greg

Re: Questions about iPad and iPhone

2012-07-10 Thread David Connors
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Emily Waghorne wrote: > Native iOS is considered the way to go if you want to be taken > seriously by iPhone and iPad users but it depends a bit on your app > and your target audience. And a web based solution is definitely much > easier! (Consider android, windows

Re: Questions about iPad and iPhone

2012-07-10 Thread Emily Waghorne
My understanding of Mono is that it only supports a subset of the iOS functionality, so check to make sure what you want to use is made available. Native iOS is considered the way to go if you want to be taken seriously by iPhone and iPad users but it depends a bit on your app and your target audi

Re: Questions about iPad and iPhone

2012-07-10 Thread Michael Ridland
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 ap

Re: Questions about iPad and iPhone

2012-07-09 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
> ** ** > > 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 an

Questions about iPad and iPhone

2012-07-09 Thread Greg Keogh
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