RubyMotion and MonoTouch

Brief introduction to RubyMotion and its comparison with MonoTouch. A short presentation given at Sydney ALT.NET user group on 29th May

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1. RubyMotion
2. What is it?
3. Why do I care?
4. NSArray *items = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"A", @"B", @"C"]; [items enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) { NSLog(@"%@, %i", obj, idx); }];
5. NSArray *items = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"A", @"B", @"C"]; [items enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) { NSLog(@"%@, %i", obj, idx); }]; items = ["A", "B", "C"] items.each_with_index {|item, index| puts "#{item}, #{index}" }
6. NSArray *items = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"A", @"B", @"C"]; [items enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) { NSLog(@"%@, %i", obj, idx); }]; items = ["A", "B", "C"] items.each_with_index {|item, index| puts "#{item}, #{index}" } var items = new List<string>() { "A", "B", "C" }; int index = 0; foreach (var item in items) { Console.WriteLine("{0}, {1}", item, index); index++; }
8. How does it compare with MonoTouch?
9. Currency Get latest exchange rates from openexchange.org
10. Binary Size RubyMotion: 1.8MB MonoTouch: 5.1MB
11. Lines of Code RubyMotion: 557 MonoTouch: 612
12. Demo
13. Learn more @seansan (Sean Ho) https://github.com/seanho/CurrencyApp-MonoTouch https://github.com/seanho/CurrencyApp-RubyMotion http://rubymotionweekly.com http://rubyrogues.com/055-rr-rubymotion-with-laurent-sansonetti/ RubyRogues Podcast - Interview with RubyMotion creator RubyMotion weekly newsletter Currency Demo on GitHub Find me on