Anthony Tietjen

In  Xamarin  I created a  Single View App  targeted for iOS and Android with a Shared Library. I changed the scheme to Release and removed the button click logic from ViewController.cs since Xcode's doesn't start with any button click logic. I confirmed that debugging was not enabled by putting a breakpoint in the ViewDidLoad() event, and it never hit that breakpoint. The deployment target was set to iOS 9.2. In  Xamarin  I created a  Xamarin.Forms App  targeted for iOS and Android with a Shared Library. I changed the scheme to Release. I confirmed that debugging was not enabled by putting a breakpoint in the App() method, and it never hit that breakpoint. The deployment target was set to iOS 9.2. In Xcode I created a Single View App using Swift targeting Universal devices. I opened the Run scheme, changed it to use the Build Configuration of Release and unchecked Debug Executable. Under Options I unchecked Core Location, XPC Servi...

I created a blank single-view application in three different IDEs and compared the file size and startup time of the resulting apps once deployed to my iPhone 5S. Listed below are the IDEs I used, the file sizes and startup speeds for each app: IDEs Used: Xcode 5.02 with the deployment target set to iOS 7.0 Xamarin Studio 4.2.3 Titanium Studio 3.2.1 using Alloy File Sizes: Xcode: 216 KB Xamarin (for Release): 2.9 MB Xamarin (for Debug): 5.1 MB Titanium Alloy: 4.6 MB Startup Speeds: ( From home icon tap to after launch screen finished) Xcode: ~1.056 seconds (Average of: 1.06, 1.08, 1.03) Xamarin (for Release): ~1.056 seconds (Average of: 1.06, 1.11, 1.00) Xamarin (for Debug): ~2.49 seconds (Average of: 2.33, 2.58, 2.58) Titanium Alloy: ~1.07 (Average of: 0.96, 1.10, 1.12, 1.11)

One of the requirements on a Mac for creating a Native Client plugin for Chrome is to have Make installed. A version of Make comes with Command Line tools for Mac. I am using Xcode 5 on OSX Mavericks, but I found that under Xcode Preferences, Command Line tools is no longer listed to be downloaded. Luckily Alok Yadav at Computers And You has posted an article explaining how to install Command Line Tools on OSX Mavericks . I went this route and it installed easily. Also, "thekbb" pointed out on Stack Overflow that it can be downloaded from the Apple Developer Center.