Starting out on a mac with this breakout board

[Bndit]

Thanks to the answers and support here, I think we are going to use the nrf52832 ( we migrate from another company after having really hard times). I am struggling to find out what IDE and programmer you can use on a mac - that simply works without hassle.

1. If we use this breakout board, can we program it on a mac using Nordic environement ? if so which ? they show the Arduino.

2. When we develop our custom pcb with the chip, what are the options to program it ? (personally and in mass production) ? should we add onboard chips to enable usb programming ?

3. I could see that Xcode can be used, but there is no comprehensive tutorial from start to end and some people having problems setting it up. Is it a stable solution ?

Thank you , and sorry for being a little bit pessimistic before .

[Petter Myhre]

1. For OS X we support GCC, see this and this. You can also look into Segger Embedded Studio and mBed.
2. See this on how to do in-system programming on custom nRF5x devices, for socket programming see this and this.
3. I don't know. Sorry.

[RK]

.. write something custom myself, it takes a shed load longer.

So on MacOSX (which is what I use) I'd recommend SES or Crossworks ($150 for life for non-commercial) or just use GCC and get up the learning curve of OpenOCD for debugging.

I've done a lot more embedded programming since I started a few years ago with Nordic and found in the end it's easier to swim downstream. I'm currently working on some Atmel code and even though I don't really love their huge development library, I get how it works, and there's a lot of code I don't need to write.