From iPhone to Mac programming

Question

I\'ve looked through the site to make sure this isn\'t a duplicate. Apologies if I\'ve missed something.

I\'ve been doing iPhone development for about a year now, an

Answer 1

Thankfully, Cocoa on the desktop and Cocoa Touch are very similar. I would recommend just downloading some beginner sample code from Apple's website. Since you already know Objective-C/Cocoa, you should be able to follow along pretty easily. If some parts are confusing, you can skim through Apple's guides.

Things that are the same:

• Design Patterns (target/action, delegate, data source, first responder, etc.)
• Objective-C
• Interface Builder

Things that are different:

• A control can have only one target and action. On the iPhone, you can have one target/action for a touch up inside, touch up outside, etc. On the Mac, there's only one.
• NSWindowController for loading xibs (conceptually similar to UIViewController, though)

Edit: Overall, the main different the iPhone has more 'pre-built' UI classes (UINavigationController, UITabBarController, etc.) you can use in your app to make it look nice and pretty (and most importantly, consistent with Apple apps).