Saturday, March 16, 2013

How to develop an iPod app with Visual Studio

Developing iPad apps directly from Visual Studio, is starting to be possible Xamarin just released Xamarin.iOS on Windows
In the future this will be my development platform. 

2 things to know about Xamarin.iOS on Windows.

  1. You still need a Mac, not too old, an Apple developer license ($100). Install all the Apple tools and the Xamarin tools.
  2. It cost $999 a year.
jsonB, is another solution. Technically with jsonB, you do not develop app, you create brows-able JSON dataset located in the cloud or any web server . But you can customize the UI and the user interaction. 

You can start on any operating system with a simple text editor.
We for now focus on Windows with Visual Studio or Visual Studio Express.

jsonB, focus on simple use cases, that only apply to the enterprise world. 
  • How do I bring my centralized data to my customers or employee's iPhones?
  • Can my customers or employees update and send the data back to the server.
jsonB, is all about: JSON, Http, Rest. 

In the video jsonB Hello World, I show how to customize a json dataset about countries from Windows using Visual Studio Express.

This video is about: how do I share static data with people using an iPhone, iPad or iPod?

For app that update and send data back to the server see our demo "Vegetable Catalog" on the web site or on the app itself.


jsonB is a JSON Browser for iOS, a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing JSON dataset downloaded from any web server from the cloud. In this post I am focusing only on static data (data that do not change or change every day or hours), jsonB can also interact with a rest services and with this mode we can build mini mobile app (minimapp). See post [TO-COME]





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