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iOS

Posted by jne
jne
12,613 Points

Learning iOS developing

How is the iOS developer track made. Is it best to have a mac with xcode installed or do treehouse offer a built in solution like we've seen on "front end developer" when learning git. There they had a console that we could use. We've also seen plain text editors. What is used and what is recommended when learning objective-c with the iOS developer track?

Thanks

1 Answer

Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points

Hi Joakim!

You should write in Xcode as it is what you will need to compile Objective C/Swift and run it on an iOS simulator. You could write the code in a text editor and then copy it over but there is no real point in doing that at all. So yeah, go for Xcode!

-Luke

jne
jne
12,613 Points

Thanks...better buy a mac then!

Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 Points

Yes, for iOS development , you need iMac.

But if you want to start , really start , write it on a paper :) It works really or on notepad maybe but it may get confusing there .

Just look at som ething like animation as this is easy to code in iOS so you could get used to it on paper .

Or just learn C on windows, Objective-C is C that you can learn on windows. Unless you want go on swift , you need iMac for 100%.

Hope this help.