Experimenting with iPhone development

I've begun experimenting with iPhone development. I have a MacBook Pro and I like the Cocoa development platform even though I'm less than trilled with the "Drink our koolaid or we'll send the zombies after you" attitude of the Mac community.

Honestly, Objective C isn't as big of a problem for me as I thought. Once I got the concept of sending messages to objects and the syncax, it's all good now.

Here is an example of an Alert dialog for agreeing to a license in Android and Cocoa:

Android:

new AlertDialog.Builder(AndroidExamples.this)
        .setTitle("License Agreement")
        .setMessage("EULA TEXT HERE")
        .setNeutralButton("Accept", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                //Handle click here    
            }
        })
        .setCancelButton("Decline", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                //Handle click here    
            }
        })
        .show();

Cocoa:

UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] 
                       initWithTitle:@"License Agreement" 
                       message:@"EULA TEXT HERE"  
                       delegate:self 
                       cancelButtonTitle:@"Decline" 
                       otherButtonTitles: @"Accept"
                     , nil];
  [alert show];
  [alert release];

There is a little more such as creating a handler to accept the button clicks. In COCOA, you create a delegate, and in Android you pass in a method (I usually do them dynamically).

I suppose you can argue either way, but I like that COCOA has a single event for the dialog and not for each button. You can do the same in Android by registering the same method for both or by putting the logic in a method and calling the method from the handler.

Either way, it's fun to learn a new language and platform so I'll continue to play around. My goal is to learn enough to port the My Collection application to the platform. I don't know if I'll sell it on the App Store but at least I'll learn something new.