Comments on: From AS3 to Objective-C: Flex vs iPhone development http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/30/from-as3-to-objective-c-flex-vs-iphone-development/ Hacking away at UI development Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:34:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: cornice http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/30/from-as3-to-objective-c-flex-vs-iphone-development/#comment-3586 cornice Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:08:59 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/30/from-as3-to-objective-c-flex-vs-iphone-development/#comment-3586 There is no garbage collection available when developping for iPhone though. Apparently because of performance reasons. thx There is no garbage collection available when developping for iPhone though. Apparently because of performance reasons.

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]]> By: Andrew Paul SImmons http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/30/from-as3-to-objective-c-flex-vs-iphone-development/#comment-3336 Andrew Paul SImmons Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:44:40 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/30/from-as3-to-objective-c-flex-vs-iphone-development/#comment-3336 Great to hear from another AVM2 to iPhone OS developer. I have also had the chance to work full time on a commercial iPhone application, but have found that the main productivity slowdown is not coming from Object-C, but from the total lack of web tools provided in cocoa. libxml a c-library is your best choice for an xml parser. Parsing Xml in c is no fun. Loading an image from the internet is not as strait forward as it should be in cocoa. You need to make an NSURLConnection and then contaminate the bytes returned to create an NSData object which can later be transformed into an image that can then be displayed in a view. Not having the garbage collector is just an unavoidable detail of the limited hardware. Great to hear from another AVM2 to iPhone OS developer. I have also had the chance to work full time on a commercial iPhone application, but have found that the main productivity slowdown is not coming from Object-C, but from the total lack of web tools provided in cocoa. libxml a c-library is your best choice for an xml parser. Parsing Xml in c is no fun. Loading an image from the internet is not as strait forward as it should be in cocoa. You need to make an NSURLConnection and then contaminate the bytes returned to create an NSData object which can later be transformed into an image that can then be displayed in a view. Not having the garbage collector is just an unavoidable detail of the limited hardware.

]]> By: Billy http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/30/from-as3-to-objective-c-flex-vs-iphone-development/#comment-1009 Billy Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:49:20 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/30/from-as3-to-objective-c-flex-vs-iphone-development/#comment-1009 Have you tried using F-Script, the OS X SmallTalk language to help smooth out the transition to Objective-C and Cocoa? Java and AS3 are years behind Objective-C in terms of sophistication and abstraction. I just started using Objective-C two weeks ago and it just blows me away. I don't know much, but I do know why Next Step was named that way -- I'm reminded of it everytime I use Cocoa with all the classes beginning with "NS." Have you tried using F-Script, the OS X SmallTalk language to help smooth out the transition to Objective-C and Cocoa? Java and AS3 are years behind Objective-C in terms of sophistication and abstraction. I just started using Objective-C two weeks ago and it just blows me away. I don’t know much, but I do know why Next Step was named that way — I’m reminded of it everytime I use Cocoa with all the classes beginning with “NS.”

]]> By: Objective-C http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/30/from-as3-to-objective-c-flex-vs-iphone-development/#comment-397 Objective-C Sun, 11 May 2008 22:09:55 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/30/from-as3-to-objective-c-flex-vs-iphone-development/#comment-397 <strong>Hubs of From AS3 to Objective-C: Flex vs iPhone development...</strong> hubs about Objective-C to Stepping *back* into Objective-C certainly provides more power and flexibility in the language, but there’sa loss in productivity for me that I just can’t shake. Some of this loss comes from Objective-C’s design itself, ... Hubs of From AS3 to Objective-C: Flex vs iPhone development…

hubs about Objective-C to Stepping *back* into Objective-C certainly provides more power and flexibility in the language, but there’sa loss in productivity for me that I just can’t shake. Some of this loss comes from Objective-C’s design itself, …

]]> By: patrick http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/30/from-as3-to-objective-c-flex-vs-iphone-development/#comment-180 patrick Thu, 01 May 2008 03:09:22 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/30/from-as3-to-objective-c-flex-vs-iphone-development/#comment-180 There is no garbage collection available when developping for iPhone though. Apparently because of performance reasons. There is no garbage collection available when developping for iPhone though. Apparently because of performance reasons.

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