Do you have experiences with the use of C++ to create Android and iOS applications using Visual Studio 2019?

Question

If you do, please share your experiences here and any YouTube link for tutorials on that or any recommended programming e-book that could help me learn how to use C++ to create Android and iOS applications. Konstantinos Malliaridis, David Carroll

Answer 1

Mofey I've not had any personal experience with C++ on anything I've done professionally since the late 90s, so I'm not the best person for this question.

I do recall the following articles from last year that might be of interest though.

https://dropbox.tech/mobile/the-not-so-hidden-cost-of-sharing-code-between-ios-and-android

https://dev.to/tanker/reacting-to-dropbox-another-take-on-cross-platform-c-development-42o0

Answer 2

If you are curious about pointers in C#, here are a few links that I recommend checking out:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/unsafe-code-pointers/pointer-types

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/pointer-related-operators

https://www.pluralsight.com/guides/charp-pointer-and-reference

https://mattwarren.org/2019/03/01/Is-CSharp-a-low-level-language/

Answer 3

Mofey Hmmm... Why do you need direct access over pointers? That's a pretty low level concern for which I've not personally needed access to in any of the business level application development I've done.

Perhaps, it would be different if I was doing low level development where CPU / GPU intensive processes were involved. However, that's just not been a requirement in my personal experience.

I've also not needed to make use of pointers in C#, my primary language of choice, for any of the wide use cases I've encountered in enterprise application development over the past two and a half decades.

While C# has relatively limited pointer support compared to C/C++, it's just not a feature that I've needed to tap into.

Answer 4

𝐊𝐢𝐢𝐛𝐨 𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐥, no it's not

Answer 5

𝐊𝐢𝐢𝐛𝐨 𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐥
As a matter of fact, it's definitely not
Its a question reserved for experienced C++ programmers and I'm asking because I couldn't find useful answers on both Google and YouTube

Answer 6

Mofey also google and understand the concept of cross compiler, this is the concept that helps you understand the bigger picture of how applications compiled on one platform using a specific tool chain can run on a target platform.

Answer 7

Shankhui, have you tried checking out this link
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/android-and-ios-development-with-c-in-visual-studio/

Answer 8

Oh thank you very much David Carroll, why I find C++ as a powerful programming language is because I think its the only high level language that has pointers

Answer 9

Oh thank you David Carroll, you're a real mentor

Answer 10

A another concept that helps application developer not to worry on which platform his code will run is Dockers, do go thru it . If your application is built using Dockers it can run on any platform.

Answer 11

𝐊𝐢𝐢𝐛𝐨 𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐥, have you tried using C++ to build mobile apps on Visual Studio 2019 before?

Answer 12

Mofey Go has pointers.

Answer 13

Well Ore Go isn't on SoloLearn so I wouldn't know because SoloLearn happens to be my number 1 learning platform for coding

Answer 14

is it possible? i'd like because android studio is too heavy for my pc, dualcore

Answer 15

Qamard see if this helps you https://medium.com/@AndreSand/building-android-with-docker-8dbf717f54d4

Answer 16

In Android Studio you can use Java or Kotlin Language only..

Answer 17

No,its not possible to create android or IOS app using c++.

Answer 18

Check out Xamarin.Forms - using C# for the code behind and XAML for the UI, you can easily create cross platform apps in VS 2019 using a single shared code base.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/get-started/what-is-xamarin-forms

Answer 19

Someone should teach me how to code please