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iPhone dev... ugh...

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OogyWaWa

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Well, looks like for this semesters project I have to develop an iPhone app... i don't even own an iphone, ipod touch, or even a mac, lol...should be interesting...

anyone have some tips/links on beginner's dev and some problems often run into? thanks 🙂
 
I believe there's an Adobe AIR format iPhone simulator you can use to develop your App.

Sim @ PhoneGap: http://phonegap.com/download



Also Oreilly is trying to sell a 'webapps' course, and I would highly avoid it as its just basic html and js to create an iphone-like html structure and is mainly a complete waste of time.
 
OogyWaWa said:
Well, looks like for this semesters project I have to develop an iPhone app... i don't even own an iphone, ipod touch, or even a mac, lol...should be interesting...

anyone have some tips/links on beginner's dev and some problems often run into? thanks 🙂
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I'd ask my teach to supply the hardware if they expected me to develop on it.
 
OogyWaWa said:
we are getting dev hardware and stuff, but, for now i'm just trying to do some research since i know squat about iphones and development of them
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Ah, then I'd probably just start by seeing if the SDK had any useful getting started stuff in it.
 
The iphone really is fairly easy to program for (providing you know obj-c and are used to developing for cocoa). The SDK comes with a very nice iphone simulator. No need to even use hardware until you are ready for it.

Honestly, I like the SDK. I hated it at first, but it is fairly easy to use once you learn the basics.
 
sourceninja said:
The iphone really is fairly easy to program for (providing you know obj-c and are used to developing for cocoa). The SDK comes with a very nice iphone simulator. No need to even use hardware until you are ready for it.

Honestly, I like the SDK. I hated it at first, but it is fairly easy to use once you learn the basics.
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yah...would be nice if i knew obj-c, lol
 
sourceninja said:
Well if you know c, the rest really isn't all that hard.
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i don't, lol.

no mem-mgt, sandboxed apps.... why the hell do people dev. for this crap? i know everyone has one, but, what a PITA... the limitations are astounding...

maybe i can convince them to go android >)!
 
OogyWaWa said:
i don't, lol.

no mem-mgt, sandboxed apps.... why the hell do people dev. for this crap? i know everyone has one, but, what a PITA... the limitations are astounding...

maybe i can convince them to go android >)!
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With autorelease pools memory management really isn't that hard. Not compared to normal c/c++ imho. The sandbox is annoying, but I understand the purpose.

The real annoyance is no 3rd party frameworks. That means if you find something you want to use (say oauthconsumer) you can't use it as a framework. Instead you have to move their source code into your project. That's really annoying.
 
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