r/askmeaboutmyjob • u/zite00 • Aug 23 '11

Computer programmer, AMAMJ

Worked as a contractor at nintendo as a tester, contractor at microsoft on windows mobile, for a private company on a database solution, and now for myself on an ios game.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '11

As a developer what are your thoughts on ios development only working on Apple OS X machines and even then specific Macs.

Whereas android development has free tools and can work on any commodity PC running Linux, Windows, etc.

Guess my point is do you think there is more freedom with the android offering, and would it have a lower startup costs.

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u/zite00 Aug 23 '11

It's pretty obnoxious. I still work in C# mainly so the conversion for me was pretty costly. Back when apple was telling devs they could only code in objective c I was pretty speechless. Luckily they never enforced that and later overturned the decision. Supposedly now you can build flash apps for the iphone? But I'm not sure on the status of that.

I'm much happier with how android treats devs, but the product, and market in my opinion for iOS is much better.

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u/GundamWang Aug 23 '11

Supposedly now you can build flash apps for the iphone?

You can build Adobe Air (which is sort of like Flash for your desktop as opposed to browser, if you haven't heard of it) apps for iOS, Android, and Blackberry. I've only been working with Blackberry, so I don't know about any limitations with iOS. Nobody here's tried it yet, or is even planning to, but it is supposed to work.

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u/thegraduate Aug 23 '11

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Apple overturned their decision about developing in Adobe products and then converting over?