Re: Android Development for the IBM i

Maurice - I didn't see a language war starting here - I didn't hear Joe make any value judgments - only that he chose not to learn Objective-C.

Here's a resolution for you - how about writing an article or articles about writing an IOS app? I bet Tami would like to see that, too.

Regards
Vern

On 1/2/2012 10:27 AM, Maurice O'Prey wrote:

Hi Joe

I kind of guessed your response but this is not a war about programming languages as by now we have all learned to speak quite a few.

Clearly the platform is a commercial battle and if you are going to have a successful app it will have to support all.

So no more one is better than all the others, another new year resolution!

Kind Regards

Maurice O'Prey
XMLi5 Ltd

On 2 Jan 2012, at 15:45, Joe Pluta<joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/2/2012 9:22 AM, Maurice O'Prey wrote:

For my new years resolution I'm writing an IOS app ( not that I have anything against android )

Yeah, I tried that. I got as far as getting Leopard to boot in a VM,
just to see if it could be done. But in the end I couldn't get past a
couple of hurdles. First was the fact that I would have to learn
Objective-C. I really have no desire to re-learn Smalltalk. But the
real kicker was that I would have to pay Apple for the privilege of
running an application that I wrote on a device that I own.

Good luck to you on your endeavors!

Joe
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