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iOS

Posted by Alex Cawley
Alex Cawley
9,291 Points

Help with iOS coding

I decided to check out the iOS development course just to see what C is like. I went to download xCode but my version of mac OS is too old. I have 10.6.8 but xcode requires OS 10.8.4 or later. Is there any other environments that are as good as xCode or should I just look for an older version of xcode?

2 Answers

Kyle V
Kyle V
781 Points
Kyle V
Kyle V
781 Points

Hey, You cannot created iPhone or iPad applications through any other environment. Xcode is the only editor provided by Apple to create apps for deployment to the App Store. I would recommend to look for previous releases as that would allow you to create applications for iOS. Hope this helps, Kyle

Dennis Walsh
Dennis Walsh
5,793 Points
Dennis Walsh
Dennis Walsh
5,793 Points

Alex,

iOS is programmed in Objective-C, not C. Objective-C is a super set of C, featuring a more object oriented structure then traditional C, which is a structured programming language. If you want to learn C, then you can use a whole bunch of other IDE's, like Eclipse or Visual Studio. Eclipse is free (and Visual Studio Express is too), and supports many other programming languages such as C++, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML. I use Eclipse and it is a fairly popular IDE used in many dev shops. If you want to learn Objective-C, I would use Xcode, get an older version, it is really a great IDE.