Sit back, relax, and enjoy the code.

The 5 stages of 3.3.1

Posted: April 11th, 2010 | Author: abel | Filed under: MonoTouch | Tags: , , , | 5 Comments »

Developers have been up in arms on the news broken by Daring Fireball and TechCrunch.  The reported change in the iPhone developer agreement definitely stops Flash developers from creating iPhone apps using the new tools available CS5, but the sword Apple used also cuts into the heart of the MonoTouch, Appcelerator, Unity 3D, Corona, & PhoneGap communities.  Being a member of the MonoTouch community, I’m directly affected by this reported change.  Easily said, I’ve gone through the 5 stages of grief over the news:

Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark

Quick Hits: Localization strings in Monotouch

Posted: February 21st, 2010 | Author: abel | Filed under: MonoTouch | Tags: , | No Comments »

It’s pretty straight forward. Check out this post:

Internationalising my app

…and make sure the folders you use follow this format “[Language Abbreviation].lproj” as commenter #4 points out ;)

If you miss one of the major languages, your app will default to English.  As of this post, the iPhone OS supports the following languages:

English (U.S), English (UK), French (France), German, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Arabic, Thai, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Malay, Romanian, Slovak, and Croatian

  • Share/Bookmark

I LOVE MonoTouch

Posted: January 24th, 2010 | Author: abel | Filed under: MonoTouch | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

Don’t get me wrong, XCode is great…in it’s own way…but as a .Net dev coming to the iPhone platform, MonoTouch rocks my world!

For the other devs in my shoes looking to play with MonoTouch, here are some things to keep in mind: Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark