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Cocoa Touch (iOS) vs Mono: What are the differences?

Cocoa Touch (iOS): The Cocoa Touch collection of frameworks includes everything needed to create iOS apps. The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services; Mono: *Open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework *. It is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications part of the .NET Foundation. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.

Cocoa Touch (iOS) and Mono belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

Mono is an open source tool with 8.19K GitHub stars and 3.28K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mono's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Cocoa Touch (iOS) has a broader approval, being mentioned in 44 company stacks & 101 developers stacks; compared to Mono, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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What is Cocoa Touch (iOS)?

The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services.

What is Mono?

It is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications part of the .NET Foundation. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.

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