iPhone Apps built with Monotouch
My MonoTouch iPhone app is live
Recently I was very fortunate to work on contract for one of the UK’s leading nationwide used car sales company, Carcraft.
During my time with Carcraft, I worked on number of exciting and fun web projects with a really great bunch of people. One of the more interesting projects was the development of the Official Carcraft iPhone app.
After seeing a presentation by @chrisntr at NxtGenUG (managed by @Grumpydev and team) about MonoTouch. I decided to stick with a language that complement the rest of the development team skills and develop in C# with MonoTouch.
To find out more and download the app, please visit iTunes store.
What is MonoTouch?
MonoTouch allows developers to create C# and .NET based applications that run on Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices, while taking advantage of the iPhone APIs and reusing both code and libraries that have been built for .NET, as well as existing skills. Please visit their web-site and try it for yourself. MonoTouch
How was it?
Once you have the basics under your belt, development for the iPhone was fun and quick, utilising Strongly Typed Models and Web Services, we developed an easy use application, retrieving live stock updates, car galleries and accessing GPS to calculate route maps and distances to your nearest Carcraft showroom. Also unique car industry features like, “Love this car” which allows your to enter a registration of any car and search the whole of the Carcraft stock list for something similar car or applying for finance while on the app.
All these features and more where all developed in C#, what more could you ask for? Android version, we’ll thanks to Mono for Android you can that too, if you wanted it.
Summary
If your interested in getting starting and want to build your own application, I’d recommend Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
Also reading the tutorials over at monotouch.info
I’ll be blogging about my next iPhone / iPad app, which is going to starting very shortly for mens underwear online store www.gounderwear.co.uk . So keep following.
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