Roadmap

Roadmap

We're adding APIs and fixing bugs with every release. Here are some of our highest priorities at the moment. If you think we should be focusing on something not mentioned here, file an issue and let us know!

Building out our iOS API support

• Improved UIKit support
  • Improved accessibility support
  • Transition UIKit controls to take advantage of XAML functionality
• Improved Foundation/CoreFoundation support
  • Integrate official Apple CoreFoundation
  • KVO/KVC improvements
• Improved CoreText support
• Improved Security support
• Improved CoreAnimation support
• Improved CoreGraphics support
• Support for popular iOS third-party frameworks
  • AFNetworking
  • Facebook SDK
  • Bolts
• Improved support for system frameworks

Making it easier to get started

• New project website
• Publish coding conventions and standards
• Downloadable evaluation virtual machines, so you can try out the bridge using the virtualization environment of your choice
• Improved documentation, samples and tutorials
• Web-based app analysis tool, so you can get an estimate of how much of your app is compatible with the bridge
• API availability browsing, so you can see exactly what the bridge supports

Improving our tooling and developer experience

• Improved Storyboard/XIB support
  • Xib2Nib instrumentation
  • Enhanced error reporting
• Improved debugging/logging; object inspection and native visualization in Visual Studio
• Objective-C annotations in Visual Studio

Improving our Objective-C compiler and runtime

• Adding support for GNUStep libobjc2 to replace current Objective-C runtime
• ARM support
• Compiler optimization support