title: Monotouch or Titanium for rapid application development on IPhone?
body: <p>As a .Net developer I always dreamed for the possibility to develop with my existing skills (c#) applications for the Iphone.</p>
  
  <p>Both programs require a Mac and the Iphone Sdk installed.</p>
  
  <p>Appcelerator Titanium was the first app I tried and it is based on exposing some Iphone native api to javascript so that they can be called using that language.</p>
  
  <p>Monotouch starts at $399 for beeing able to deploy on the Iphone and not on the Iphone simulator while Titanium is free.</p>
  
  <p>Monotouch (Monodevelop) has an Ide that is currently missing in Titanium (but you can use any editor like Textmate, Aptana...)</p>
  
  <p>I think both program generate at the end a native precompiled app (also if I am not sure about the size of the final app on the Iphone as I think the .Net framework calls are prelilnked at compilation time in Monotouch).</p>
  
  <p>I am also not sure about the full coverage of all the Iphone api and features.</p>
  
  <p>Titanium has also the advantage to enable Android app development but as a c# developer I still find Monotouch experience more like the Visual Studio one.</p>
  
  <p>Which one would you choose and what are your experiences on Monotouch and Titanium?</p>