Tomorrow (Wednesday, 19 February 2014) Embarcadero is hosting an online webinar on the use of C++ (rather than the classic ObjectiveC) for iOS development. The webinar will be given by JT (Development Tools Product Manager at Embarcadero) at three different times during the day (for the different time zones around the world, 3pm Europe, 11am Pacific, 10 am Tokio next day). The title is:"iOS Application Development with C++Builder XE5".
You can register (for free) at forms.embarcadero.com/CPPiOSAppDev2-19. If you are a Delphi developer, but have friends who prefer C++, forward them this invite!
The main focus, as the title implies, is th new C++Builder for iOS, with ARC for C++ and other special features... but mostly now the primary iOS development tool based on the C++ language!
As an aside, I was reading this blog post recently, Replacing ObjectiveC, and I guess we really need to dispel this myth that the only modern alternative to Object C for native iOS development (that is, non JavaScript) is C#. Well, given the blog post was written by a Xamarin user, no surprise this is his conclusion. However, given C# language implementations seem to change a bit depending on the target platform, and there is little common libraries, why not use either C++ (in C++Builder) or Object Pascal (in Delphi) for your iOS development? You gain also the big advantage of being able to recompile your code for Android and for desktop platforms as well!
See you online tomorrow...