Which is easy to learn iOS development or android development

Posted by acronmace on Sunday December 07, 2014 @12:25PM
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I just wanted to know which is easy since i will soon be learning IOS development. I think it will give me an basic idea of how its going to be.

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Re:Which is easy to learn iOS development or android develop... by runjake on Sunday December 07, 2014 @09:37PM (#8714623)

Neither is easy. Or conversely, both are about equally difficult.

Also, it's not so much the languages that are the steep learning curve, but the frameworks.

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Re:Which is easy to learn iOS development or android develop... by ianhirschfeld on Monday December 08, 2014 @03:42PM (#8719044)

Coming from web development (Rails), I started learning Swift this August with no previous background in Objective-C. I've found it to be fairly straightforward to pick up. I learned the basics in about a month and am approaching release of a production level app within the next month or so.

I have never tried Android dev though, so I can't compare to that.

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Re:Which is easy to learn iOS development or android develop... by dep_b on Monday December 08, 2014 @07:57PM (#8720277)

Things on iOS are either really really easy or extremely difficult for really arbitrary reasons (can you left align the text in that SearchBox please?). The pain in Android is a bit more constant. Fragmentation is still horrible but getting better.

iOS is slightly more easy overall though.

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Re:Which is easy to learn iOS development or android develop... by gsands on Sunday December 07, 2014 @08:38PM (#8714469)

similar learning curve with both -- with either one your learning will be split between learning language constructs (Obj-C/Swift or Java), app architecture (iOS and Android both have unique ways of doing common things), and the ecosystem library (Cocoa Touch or Android).

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Re:Which is easy to learn iOS development or android develop... by 0942v8653 on Monday December 08, 2014 @03:27PM (#8718954)

In my experience: iOS is a bit easier, as long as you're using Objective-C, but not by much. Learning one doesn't necessarily help you learn the other.

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