[mox1]

I recently translated one of my Apps from Android to iPhone.

I had 0 objective-C experience, but I made it work. It was a bit of a frustrating experience. Many times I found myself writing Objective-C boilerplate-ish code that I had 0 clue what it was doing, considering this is a hobby / for fun project I just wanted it working.

It's not easy to google the answer to, "Why did I just add this new keyword after this colon in this random .h file.."

I didn't want to spend the next month reading Objective-C for beginners, I know what a for loop is, I also know what constructors are. I just wanted to use the language.

[ff10]

You may know what a constructor is, but maybe not know what a designated initializer does. ;-)

[cesarbs]

I felt the same when working on iOS. I felt I was writing way too much boilerplate code, while Android and Windows Phone just gave me a lot more "for free".

[BHSPitMonkey]

You've just described exactly what it feels like transitioning from iOS to Android development, too.