Starting with Xcode

I’ve been trying to spend an hour every day getting up to speed on iOS development, which has meant exploring Xcode.

I’ve done some Windows Phone development before and spend a good deal of my life in Visual Studio, so it’s really interesting to compare the different tools.

Working through the Getting Started guide on the Apple development site, it been fascinating how easy it is to develop nice looking UIs almost out of the box.

Compared to WP8 development (and the disappointment of Eclipse for Android coding) it seems really powerful, and other than getting used to the still slightly bizarre Objective-C syntax, I’m looking forward to developing some magically beautiful apps :-)