Form and Function

Well, I am pretty impressed with the level of effort that went into this SDK. I am on day four of just looking around, and I have yet to write a single line of code, which is very uncharacteristic of me.

The SDK is pretty polished, with custom graphics, and a deep set of well put together videos (available via Apple Developer Connection) free on iTunes. The videos were a great way to get a lay of the land.

Other than starting to get my mind around Objective C after spending the last two plus years immersed in Adobe Flex feels like a bit of a step backwards. I am not super fond of the C/C++ structures and coding paradigms, as they feel like I am having to do a bunch of unnecessary work at lower levels of abstraction that is needed. Having to deal with memory allocations and stuff like that is a bit of PIA, but perhaps it is just because I have been working in higher level languages for so long.

One interesting bit I ran across in the videos is that they have extended the javascript API for Web Kit to support the handling of multi-touch getsure events like gesturestart, gestureend, and gesturechange. But I have been unable to find any other documented API references to this, and in loading up Dashcode (their web IDE for the iPhone) I could not get any more info.