Ask HN: Experienced programmer, beginner to iOS (objective-C). Where to begin?

Re:Ask HN: Experienced programmer, beginner to iOS (objectiv... by officialchicken on Sunday May 06, 2012 @09:01AM (#3935010)

I can not agree with recommending ARC to anyone at this time; in this case there is a ton of existing code out there which is incompatible with it. If you are an experienced obj-c developer who's tired of writing boilerplate and uses the static analyzer with LLVM - then go for it.

Learning to clean up after yourself is a life skill worth having. And besides, there's always the -fobjc-arc flag for classes which use it.

EDIT: Every project seems to include: Reachability SBJson ASIHttp

And also commonly occurring: OpenUDID ZipKit NSLogger InAppSettingsKit (there are others) Cocos2d/3d

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Re:Ask HN: Experienced programmer, beginner to iOS (objectiv... by Arcanum-XIII on Sunday May 06, 2012 @09:22AM (#3935056)

You can disable ARC for some or all part of your program, so lib compatibility is not a problem.

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Re:Ask HN: Experienced programmer, beginner to iOS (objectiv... by architgupta on Sunday May 06, 2012 @09:14AM (#3935031)

Thanks for the heads-up on ARC.

Not averse to managing memory :-)

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Re:Ask HN: Experienced programmer, beginner to iOS (objectiv... by mikeash on Sunday May 06, 2012 @09:20AM (#3935051)

If you need to include those files in your project, you can just turn ARC off for them while leaving it on for the rest.

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