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Difference between iPhone development and Mac OSX development

Asked on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 by Legolas iphone objective-c xcode mac apple
3 votes

This question is for all the programmers who code in iphone as well as the Mac OSX platform.

I have been searching on Google for quite some time, but I could not find any good answer, and so I am posting the question here. Please apologize if this is not a programming question.

  1. Question on development overview:

    I would like to know how the iphone development tools are different from Mac OSX development tools.

  2. Question on the programming language:

    Is the programming done in objective-c for mac-osx as well ? Will it be the same syntax and format (for example, to create a button or textField)... ?

  3. Question on the libraries:

    If the programming is done in Xcode, how will the classes and libraries for touch and navigation be for the development in Mac OSX. ? And is there an interface builder ?

  4. Question on Simulation and Testing:

    Is it as easy as iPhone development to simulate and test the app in a Simulator ?

Answered by PengOne

  1. Many different UI elements and interactions.
  2. The same.
  3. Different.
  4. IMHO yes.

You may want to check out these posts to help you transition:

Jumping from iOS to OSX

Removing iOS SDKs from OSX