Comments on: From AS3 to Objective-C: Flex vs iPhone development

By: ogniwa fotowoltaiczne

ogniwa fotowoltaiczne — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:05:54 +0000

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By: Objective-C migration « Iphone SandBox

Objective-C migration « Iphone SandBox — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:54:50 +0000

[...] I have a FlashÂ as3 background, here goes some good links for language transitioning: http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/30/from-as3-to-objective-c-flex-vs-iphone-development/ [...]

By: Kevin Newman

Kevin Newman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:49:16 +0000

I’ve been enjoying this series: http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_objectivec/

Also, there are a bunch of tutorials targeted directly at Flash developers to migrate to Unity 3D, which can be programmed in C# and Javascript (afaik), and compiled to run on iPhone, and other devices. (I haven’t checked that one out as thoroughly though.)

By: KC Jones

KC Jones — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:41:27 +0000

Good to see im not the only Flex developers making the a leap into the land of Cocoa. Its an interesting mix but so far i’d have to agree with most of that you have said. Coming from C/C++ to flex 3 years ago i fell in love with the sophisticated UI design power and familiarities AS3 gave me. Now returning back its a little bit of a jungle.

If anyone knows of a good C-Objective Primer for Flex coders could they email it to me perhaps?

By: cornice

cornice — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:08:59 +0000

There is no garbage collection available when developping for iPhone though. Apparently because of performance reasons.

thx

By: Andrew Paul SImmons

Andrew Paul SImmons — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:44:40 +0000

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

Billy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:49:20 +0000

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

Objective-C — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:09:55 +0000

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hubs about Objective-C to Stepping *back* into Objective-C certainly provides more power and flexibility in the language, but thereâ€™sa loss in productivity for me that I just canâ€™t shake. Some of this loss comes from Objective-Câ€™s design itself, …

By: patrick

patrick — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:09:22 +0000

There is no garbage collection available when developping for iPhone though. Apparently because of performance reasons.