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    iPhone SDK

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by imMACulate, Mar 26, 2008.

  1. imMACulate

    imMACulate Notebook Evangelist

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    I just have a quick question. As far as programming for the iPhone what kind of coding does the SDK use? Is it like Java or something? Or is XCode its own programming language?
     
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  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Apple's Xcode does have support for JAVA and other popular OOPs, but the iPhone SDK only supports Objective-C 2.0, Apple's own version of modernised C++. Kind of like Microsoft's C#.

    There might be wrappers out there in Objective-C using the iPhone SDK which enable support for languages such as JAVA or whatnot, but I don't know as I have no motivation to develop on the iPhone platform.
     
    Budding, Mar 26, 2008
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  3. niemassacre

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    Objective C only. Learn to love it.
     
    niemassacre, Mar 26, 2008
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  4. Starlight

    Starlight Notebook Evangelist

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    Well, Objective C isn't based on C++, it followed its own evolutionary path from C onwards, but other than that you are correct - all programming for OS X in its various shapes (such as the iPhone OS) is done in Objective C.

    I just bought a book called "Programming in Objective-C" by Stephen G. Kochan with the intent of refreshing my programming knowledge from my university days by learning a new language, it seems pretty nice so far but it's a bit early to say as I only got it a couple of days ago :) Worth checking out if you are interested though.
     
    Starlight, Mar 27, 2008
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