Re; The struggle to become competent in iOS development

[Graham Samuel]

Well, I have answered my own question to a great extent, since I've discovered the iOS Release Notes PDF. Apparently it was in the Help menu all the time! Stupid of me - but maybe a few references sprinkled over the other documentation and the 'Resources Centre' section might have been helpful, to me at any rate.

I am not sure that this is the end of the story - but I'm sure I'll be a lot happier when I get to page 83 of the document.

Although I finally found the 'glue' document, I am still very much interested in any sources of information outside this list.

TIA

Graham

I wrote:
> I've got a fair amount of LiveCode experience, especially if you count it in years, but really I've only worked on Mac and Windows platforms. Now like so many others, I'm trying to develop an iOS app (well, two, actually). I'm finding it pretty hard to get my head around this stuff, and I wonder if some info I need is around but I somehow missed it. 
> 
> I've looked at (and am still looking at) the relevant LiveCode lessons on the RunRev site; I've been scanning the LC dictionary which turns out to have a lot of new commands and messages, with names that start with "iPhone"; I've looked at the LC User Guide (not one single reference to iOS in the whole thing, AFAICS!), but I haven't found a document pulling it all together. I seem to remember that when LC first embraced iOS there was some document describing the approach and the necessary additions to the engine etc, but I can't find it. I'm finding odd references that I don't understand, to do with the touch interface of these devices, and to do with native controls, some of which (I think) you can only instantiate at runtime - if this is so, how do they get scripts? etc etc.
> 
> Can someone tell me, is it really as fragmented as this, or is there some overview material to move dinosaurs like me into the 21st century? I am not afraid of hard work, but I feel lost in the dark wood, and sadly I'm a lot past the middle of my life.
> 
> Graham