While working as a programmer for a major IT company in Greece, he stumbled upon the quite promising and new language at the time, named C#. When MonoTouch was released, providing .NET developers with the ability to create software for the iOS platform, he was overwhelmed by the potential it offered.
With almost 10 years of professional programming experience with .NET and Mono, he now works as a freelance C# and MonoTouch software developer and offers his expertise to various projects for companies around the world.
In his spare time, he enjoys blogging about his "adventures" in coding (http://software.tavlikos.com) and tries to fill his camera's memory cards.
About the Reviewers
Jayant Varma , is the founder of OZ Apps, an Australian consultancy specializing in mobile development, training, and consulting. He had been involved with mobile devices in 2000, when Microsoft first released the Compaq iPaq (PocketPC).
He started his career in IT as a developer and then managed the IT departments for the BMW and Nissan dealerships in a couple of countries. His enterprising work demonstrated the gap and the niche that existed for mobile devices.
He is working on a Lua Cookbook for CoronaSDK developers and intends to write a book for beginners on game development principals.
Andreas Zimnas , was born in Kaufbeuren, Germany in 1982. Later, he moved with his parents to Edessa, Greece where he finished high school. In 2007, he graduated from the Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, obtaining his degree in software development, after a four-year attendance. While a student, his paper Instructional Design E-Learning Systems was presented in the 3rd International Scientific Conference eRA in September 2008 and in the World Congress on Science, WCSET 2009, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in January 2009. He is now attending the Master's program in Applied Informatics at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. Mr. Zimnas is currently employed as a software developer for a private company in Thessaloniki, Greece, developing applications for the .NET platform. He is also developing applications for the iOS platform, having currently published six applications.
Chris Fletcher , as a long-time Apple fan with extensive programming experience, has developed and beta tested many applications spanning various programming languages. Recently starting his own company, Empoc, LLC, Chris now develops applications mostly for the Mac App Store and iOS devices. Chris also spends time on his blog, chris-fletcher.com, writing tutorials and reviews. Most importantly, though, Chris values his time with his family.
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Preface
Technology is advancing quite rapidly. Portable devices, such as media players, smartphones, and tablets, have brought huge advancements and changes in the way people communicate, share, and consume digital content. Developers need to be up-to-date with the available platforms these devices work on, if they want to be "part of the game".
iOS, Apples operating system for its own portable devices, is undoubtedly one of the leading portable platforms today. If it werent for MonoTouch, .NET developers would have to spend time to learn a new programming language to expand their creativity to the iOS ecosystem.
This book, through a series of multiple recipes and with an almost equal number of complete projects, will help you become part of this ecosystem, with the help of MonoTouch and C#. When you finish reading it, you will be a capable iOS developer, ready to unleash your creativity to one of the most popular portable platforms today.
What this book covers
, Development Tools , will walk you through all the available IDEs and SDKs that you will need for using MonoTouch for iOS development. You will create your first MonoTouch project and learn how to debug on the simulator.