Posts Tagged ‘Flash’

[Update: Jeff LaMarche (author of one of the best iPhone books on the market) wrote one of his trademark 'no tact' responses to this post. I'd be very interested to know what people think about his post.]

[Update 2: Guy English (aka kickingbear) chimes in on this debate with what is the best response I've seen from a hardcore Cocoa developer. Basically: Apple's tools are probably better at producing better iPhone apps, but let's see what MonoTouch and Flash can deliver before we definitively say that they are no good.]

Novell recently announced a product called MonoTouch, which allows developers to write iPhone applications using C#, a language invented by Microsoft (but since standardised). It’s a very clever piece of work that allows someone without experience of Objective-C – the only option that Apple gives you for iPhone development – to write an iPhone application with a reduced learning curve.

Yesterday, Adobe followed suit and announced that they are working on a way to make native iPhone applications with their Flash technology.

Naturally, this is a good thing. Talented C# and Flash developers will be able to write excellent iPhone apps and we can all go home happy. The fact that two heavyweights in the technical space have made these tools is a massive compliment to Apple’s achievement with the iPhone.

Not if you listen to many Objective-C programmers it isn’t.

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