Learning iOS development
I am currently learning all about Objective-C and iOS development.
I’m following the excellent tutorials written by fellow Belgian Bart Jacocs.
The company I am currently working for needs an iOS app in preparation to the HomeKit craze which is expected to happen as soon as devices come available on the market.
Challenge: I have been working on Windows PC machines for about my whole career and don’t have an Apple computer.
Developers need to work with Apple’s Xcode for iOS development. So the company ordered a Mac Mini exactly for this purpose for me to work on.
While waiting until the shiny new Apple gear arrives, nothing stops me from learning about the new programming language, tools and everything around this using my Windows PC.
First thing I learned: it is possible to start with Objective-C code on Windows by following these instructions.
There are a whole bunch of new concepts I have to learn, since my background as a front-end web developer working in JavaScript, Java etc is very different from the Apple World of Programming. But I am certain I will be able to get going quickly because of the plethora of documentation online.
The concepts I need to master in short-term, in no particular order:
- Objective-C
- Using an Apple machine
- XCode IDE
- iOS guidelines
So wish me luck! I’m going in.
Note: I had installed CodeBlocks on my work dev machine (DELL XPS-12 running Windows 8.1) so I could run C code, but decided I didn’t really need this at this time.
My first Objective-C program
So this is the helloworld.m
objective-c program I have been playing with, courtesy of Bart’s tutorial. This amazing code compiles to a nice helloworld.exe
program which outputs the prints to the console in Windows PowerShell.
Next steps and research took me to the Write Objective C code pages.
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