This look impressive! Some important questions:

Can you develop this on an iPhone that is not jail-broken?
Can you submit these apps to the App Store?

I'm looking at the progress on MonoTouch and XNATouch with great interest. The default iPhone language and IDE leave some things to be desired...

Danny Tuppeny:

Can you develop this on an iPhone that is not jail-broken?
Can you submit these apps to the App Store?

I may be missing something, but since Mono and XnaTouch are code libraries, I don't see why there would be any problem with that.

Even though it's only 2D at this point, it's still infinitely better than using Objective-C. $400 is IMHO worth it to not have to use that!

I'm curious as to how iminib3d might be able to work with it - I'll be testing this soon.

Exactly. You can submit to the App Store, that's the point! A MonoTouch application is build on top of IPhone SDK as a regular IPhone application.

Jalf,

Thanks for posting your links.

This is the kind of discussion/development I was hoping to see and a very good reason not to lock the thread.

Please keep us posted on further developments. 

Allan

Jalf,

Thanks alot, I have been working with this for the past two days and have just purchased MonoTouch as I am going to port my stuff to iPhone. I just finished porting over my menu system and it works great. I tried using Torque as I use it for XNA however there are a number of low level XNA things that are not implemented. The first I ran into was some resource Manager stuff.

Great Job, you will see my first efforts on the itunes store soon.

UberGeekGames:

Danny Tuppeny:

Can you develop this on an iPhone that is not jail-broken?
Can you submit these apps to the App Store?

I may be missing something, but since Mono and XnaTouch are code libraries, I don't see why there would be any problem with that.

When I first got my iPhone, someone mentions that you could use Mono, but it had to be compiled on the device (and that meant jail-breaking). I just wanted to be clear whether there was anything like that involved :D

This forum probably isn't the place to ask that. :)

There is a free demo version available on the site and you can try it out all you want. My experience so far is this thing rocks. I was able to not only get stuff up and running in a hurry, I have already pushed an app to my phone. My experiences with the iPhone have been using Xcode, took me over an hour just to learn how to navigate the ui. dont even bring up the objective C.

I Downloaded monotouch demo, put it on my hackintosh, downloaded the mono ide, (based on VS) and in less than an hour I had more going on than my first day with xcode. When I tried XNATouch things got really cool. I paid the $400.