I knew that would get you
Wanted to ask what the dev tools for the iphone was like ?
is it C++ ? is it a proper IDE like visual studio ?
The Xcode IDE is brilliant, with fully integrated debugging and a simulator to develop on, before you plug a real device in... The catch is you have to learn Objective-C which was completely alien to me. I think it was about a month of hitting my head against a brick wall before it clicked... Once you get Obj-C, the iPhoneOS APIs are a dream, very well thought out and every conceivable feature built right into the OS frameworks...
The actual "code" is standard C/C++ so if you know that you are gonna do fine... But to access the libraries and frameworks you need to know obj-c.
This is not more bait by the way. I am giving up smoking, on day 15, and was thinking about getting my teeth into some proper dev above the stuff i did in basic years ago.
Would this be a good starting point do you think ?
Hmmm, learning the iPhone OS is a great was to fill one's time... The whole event driven object oriented design is weird and brilliant compared to the AmigaOS
On the other hand, I'm inclined to have a look at that new Android appnbuilder thing, it's much simpler and seems better for a hobby.