Anybody have any suggestions on how to go about developing iPhone apps on a windows platform?
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Anybody have any suggestions on how to go about developing iPhone apps on a windows platform?
Search for How to create iOS apps in Windows using Visual Studios. It should lead you to a tutorial by Pierre-Marie Baty.
It is not possible, and if it is possible, it is not worth your effort. Developing for the iPhone is only supported on Mac OS X through the Apple Xcode Developer Tools and Official iPhone SDK. While there are alternative toolchains out there (I don't know how good those are), you will almost certainly not be able to distribute your application to the App Store if you use those build tools. In addition, trying to setup your own cross-compiler environment can be quite painful.
Yea, I remember reading about this somewhere recently as well. The census is generally that its a pain in the ass to develop on anything but the Mac.Quote:
Originally Posted by rickbrown
Android is a far more open platform with both native (on an Android device) tools and cross-dev tools (for Windows, Mac, and Linux) available.
Even some of the simpler tools can create packages acceptable to Google's Play Store, Amazon's Android App Store, etc. Or you have free and open distribution (as in just post your APKs on the Web, email them, etc.).
This makes custom "bespoke" development contracts viable ($ching$), in-house development ($cha-ching$ - jobs), and hobby community development (*fun*) practical.
No answer to the iThings question, but reasons to look elsewhere. This democratization of development is why some journalists suggest Android may be the "next Windows."
Blasphemy!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
Have you considered tools targeting PhoneGap?
NSB/AppStudio comes to mind.
These don't go through the appstore deployment mechanism.