So you have and iphone and some free time and a littel bit of coding moxie. You might think to yourself, ” I should start thinking about coding a new iphone app and take it to the next level”. Well you need to start with the first few baby steps. Follow these steps and you will be one shake closer to stardom in the iphone world. Here they are.
1.) Sign Up For a Developer Account
Click the link to get to the
Apple Developer Connection and sign up for a developer account. You can sign up for an account for free which gives you access to all of the tools and documentation. On top of that you get a built-in iPhone simulator so that you can test your applications on your local machine instead of using your iphone ( which is busy doing other things anyway). The only stinky part is when you are ready to deploy your application on an iPhone. Yup you guessed it, you must pay sign up for the iPhone Developer Program. It is 99$ for the standard and 299$ for the enterprise edition.
B.) Download the iPhone SDK
This SDK (Software Development Kit) has everything you need in it to start developing software apps for the iPhone. It includes Documentation, Sample Code, and API, and the most current version of X11. Sam old mac installation process, easy peasy. Follow the instructions and finish up. Cool, it is free and takes a bit to download but you are pretty much off and running now.
Some other helpful links.
iPhone Application Programming Guide
Learning Objective C – A Primer
