How I learned to stop worrying and join the iOs developer program
For years now I’ve put it off. Despite having an iPhone since literally day one, I’ve been fighting this ideological battle in my head against the idea of developing native applications for iOS.
Ever since college I’ve been a web developer, and while I’ve dabbled in application development and of course things like flash and director I always find my self back with good old HTML wondering why I wasted my time with that other nonsense. Settling back in on the believe that web development is the future and the only programing worth doing.
Yet I’ve convinced myself its in my best interest to learn a variety of server side languages, php, coldfusion, asp.net, ruby on rails, whatever I wanted to learn them all. Open source, propriety, whatever, these things didn’t matter to me, as long as it rendered html I wanted to learn it.
Web development has matured to a level I couldn’t have even dreamed of today but yet still feels frustratingly limited in so many ways, especially on something as different as a touch screen phone. But I still fought against native apps, convinced that the web would catch up.
Well it hasnt, and what I’ve realized is that, there isnt one right way with this stuff. Just because I try to make an iOs app doesnt mean I’m “cheating” on web development. Why does it have to be a war with only one winner. I’m only just beginning but I imagine I’m going to find the code itself to be remarkably similar to languages I am familiar with.
Maybe developing something on iOs will make me an even better “web programmer” in the end, by helping me to understand that the web is more then just html, its whatever you want it to be, and who knows what the future might hold
…. thats a future I can look forward to
