I’ve been full time on an iPhone project (more of a prototype, really) for one day, and I absolutely love it.
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It’s simple and intuitive. Drop controls, set up outlets and actions.
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You don’t have to fight the framework. It does what it does with a minimum of fuss.
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A good UI is a focused UI, rather than one full of features. I love this style of thinking.
I’m less thrilled with Xcode’s documentation viewer. It feels like a really poor web browser that takes more of the screen for junk, runs in the same workspace so you can’t command-tab in and out of it. Just splitting it into a separate process would immediately improve it.
In about a day, I created four screens and linked them all together. That doesn’t sound horribly impressive, but it felt easy. Granted, I’ve previously spent a few hours figuring out UINavigationController, but things were actually simpler than I had understood. Finding things took a while, but they were generally hidden in plain sight. The few times I violated something in the runtime, the error message was simple, direct and accurate.
I do wish SQLite was a more recent version. I would love to use sqlite3_open_v2 in some of this code, especially the SQLITE_OPEN_READONLY flag.