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iOS

Posted by Jef Aldrich
Jef Aldrich
3,065 Points

Building a GUI for open source tools question...

I am making great progress with the iOS course and my goal is to publish a simple checkers application as my first app. My plan was to use an opensource game engine for the logic and i would created the gui. My question is how do i "tie" an objective-c app to open source code that may be written in another language?

To be specific i want to use raven-checkers for the logic and i will create the gui. Do i have to port/rewrite the python code to objective-c?

https://code.google.com/p/raven-checkers/

What resources are available to help with learning how to accomplish this?

2 Answers

Amit Bijlani
STAFF
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Amit Bijlani
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher

The best approach would be to port the python code to Objective-C. There are several reasons for doing this and the main one is that by porting it, you will be forced to understand it which will help you maintain your app. There are some obscure projects out there like this one: http://www.iospython.org/ that might help in embedding the Python code into your iOS app.

Jef Aldrich
Jef Aldrich
3,065 Points
Jef Aldrich
Jef Aldrich
3,065 Points

After i finish the iOS course i will look into python.

Thanks for your help.