Made of Everything You're Not

I’ve been following iPhone app gossip for a while now and wanted to pass on some notes in the minute chance I knew something you didn’t (fat chance I know

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1. In order to install an app on a non jail-broke phone it has to be from the iPhone App Store. Otherwise the phone has to be jail-broken (did you jail-break your phone).
2. Apple is notoriously Nazi about the App Store; they have very strict rules and regulations about what they will allow and their approval process is INTENSE.
3. iPhone apps are written in Objective C which is outside our comfort zone (freelancers are EXPENSIVE for Objective C)
4. There’s usually a 6 month approval process for an app to be allowed into the iPhone App Store. The app needs to be complete before requesting approval.
5. There’s a $99 application fee to add phones to the App Store (even for free apps)

The way I understand it Objective C is a kissing cousin (Eww!) of C so the concepts in C apply (which I’m already, elementarily, familiar with). From what I’ve read, iPhone app development is extremely painful and slow though. There’s no way to test or debug until you try to load the app; even the compiler doesn’t throw errors (which is weird).

That being said; I’m into it. I’m going to download some open source iPhone apps from sourceforge and dig into the code. Hopefully, there’s some good stuff out there

Tags: iphone

This entry was written by Eric Lamb and posted on Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm and is filed under Programming. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.