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I disagree completely about the swift thing. It may look a bit like Javascript on the very surface, but it's a whole different thing, if you know Javascript you know zero Swift ( except for syntactic sugar in the lambdas and declaring simple variables ).

Having said that, IMHO your best shot to get something done now would be Titanium or Phonegap.

Cheers.

Ps: Stay away from Swift until it's solid and there are more learning resources.

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Thanks for giving me a heads up. I've indeed only looked trough the syntax and as far as I can tell it's pretty similar to javascript/python/coffeescript. I know all of these, so I thought Swift would be easy once I understand the rest of iOS dev. Could you elaborate a bit more on why it's a whole different thing?

I don't think telling him/her to stay away from swift is good advice. The swift language itself is not all you have to worry about. Getting familiar with Cocoa touch is also another task. You have about 2 months before ios 8 comes out. In my opinion thats enough time to learn swift and cocoa touch, and come up with a not too complex app.

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