iOS	WP7	Android
“View”	XIB (Interface Builder)	Xaml	axml
	UIViewController	PhoneApplicationPage (codebehind)	Activity
	n/a (UIAutoResizing)	StackPanel	LinearLayout
	UITableView	ListBox	ListView
	UITableViewCell	ListBox.ItemTemplate	n/a (any view)
	UITableViewSource	n/a (binding, IEnumerable)	BaseAdapter
Navigation “Controller”	NavigationController. PushViewController()	NavigationService. Navigate()	StartActivity()
	n/a (object)	Xaml Uri	Intent.SetClass()
	n/a (object properties)	Xaml Uri querystring params	Intent.PutExtra() .AddFlags()
	n/a (object properties)	NavigationContext .QueryString .TryGetValue()	Intent .GetXXXExtra()
Threading	InvokeOnMainThread	Dispatcher.BeginInvoke	RunOnUiThread
“Model”	C# .NET objects – shared thanks to Mono on iOS & Android. Also WebClient, Linq, Generics, Xml, Serialization, etc…

And while we are on the mono subject, they just released a Mono droid update, which means they now have comprahensive tool chains for C# development for the following systems, iOS (including app store), Mac (including app store), Android (including app store).

So these guys have taken the general idea that anyone in mobile development for the past 3 years has had and made it a reality on top of an open-source stack.

Write an app using web technologies (html/js), abstract away the specific device peripherals and capabilities  and then compile it down to native format for each target device.

Sucks that it doesn’t do Windows Phone 7, but still worth a look at for me as it covers off some short term Android and IOS needs.

Stick with the preso, the last few slides have the best info about cross platform dev and limitations, and the videos at the actual post are quite cool.

The thing I love about monotouch is that it lets me leverage my .Net Skills (not just c#, but how the .Net run time works) and marries it to the low-level iPhone development infrastructure. The hardest part about getting into iPhone development for me was Objective-C, and now I don’t need to go there.

Points to note:

• Obviously since interpretation is not allowed on the iPhone the guys at the mono project had to put together monotouch, which statically links the parts of the .net framework needed into each iPhone app.
• Monotouch is a payed for product.

Great work from the iphone-dev guys I say:

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/67797811/dont-eat-yellowsn0w

Great work from the iphone-dev guys I say:

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/67797811/dont-eat-yellowsn0w

A word of warning though, to get this to work you have to do un-godly things in this day and age like building and parsing your own SOAP requests and responses as well as regenerating the tile pyramid. This is mainly because it’s using the VE web service API. More info on the jump.

I was a little hesitant as I’m really only looking for MSN IM capability without having to hand over my IM credentials to a third party, and unfortunately, just like all the other players fring requires you register an account with them and hand over all your other IM credentials.

In this instance though, i caved and provided my MSN IM details, mainly because being able to make VOIP calls of MSN’s protocol is such a usefull feature. Lucky for me I mainly use my MSN IM account for work, so have nothing sensitive stored with the associated passport account.

Rocked up on Friday to the Apple store expecting an hour of arguing about why the phone was so shit as a phone. Mostly I felt like this because the guy at the Optus store said it would take 2 weeks to get fixed.

Was forced to book an appointment at the “Genius Bar”. Didn’t bode well for the support experience initially, but I made an appointment and came back then.

What I got was an absolute surprise. Went up the tech, explained the problem and he walked away and came back with a new phone, which he swapped for my phone. He then printed a service receipt and I was done and walking out the door with a hopefully better working new iPhone.

So far it seems to drop less calls, which is a good thing, but that may be because I don’t use it as much as I was last week. Also to it’s benefit the 3G internet definitely seems much better than the one I had before.