prostheticknowledge replied to your post: i too was possessed by the i”deviceName”

I’m not a developer / programmer at all, but is there any reason you didn’t choose Android? I’ve heard there isn’t as much money to make from it - just curious to see from a developer perspective.

…no i haven’t:(…and here is a technical reason why…

the main development language for Android apps as Java…Visual Studio 2010 is my main IDE.and.has plugins (i.e. SDKs.ToolKits.Custom private APIs) for developing Android apps now…Monodroid.and.Android NDK is the most popular…however Monodroid plugin requires you to compile code from a .Net language on a Linux machine to a native language the Andriod Runtime can process

Visual Studio (any version) does not support Java as a coding language…my true skill is designing.and.implementing business level processes with the code i write in C# (which is a .Net language)…think of .Net as a list of functions.or.methods that allow you to invoke features of a device without communicate with the OS directly…every OS has a runtime language which natively handles discussions.and.requests to the hardware (Microsoft calls this layer CLR)

.Net only works on Windows based devices (with the exception of C++ which is a hard core language that can be processed by most processors (e.g. ARM.Intel.Cell etc))

Java is “like” C#…meaning that some of the more difficult development tasks…such as memory management.multi-threading.and.other hardware specific code is built into the language (or executable.app.etc)…unlike C++…

…if i coded in C++ i could technically write an app once.and.tweak it to take advantage of hardware differences…but even though different coding languages are syntactically similar (as C++ is to C# and C# is to Java) which means i could code a C++ application with my skills..it’s not my cup of tea

i could go to the Eclipse IDE route.and.develop for all devices..but i lose my ability to have a tight integration experience that only Visual Studio can provide…

plus i love ComponentOne tools for .Net…with ComponentOne i can write a rich UX website.app for WP7.service.or.application in about 80% less time then it would take without C1 toolkit…