The assumption right now is that Apple's Xcode will be the development environment. I use it daily and IMHO it's awesome pretty much on par with MS dev studio (which I also use almost every day) -- best of all it's free. It's included with Mac OS X and on every new Mac. See: http://www.apple.com/macosx/developer/
It will be interesting to see if we'll see the reemergence of something like what used to be OPENSTEP for Windows NT as the iPhone SDK and Dev environment for Windows. If Apple intends to keep people on the Windows side developing for the iPhone but now in the "native" apps realm they'll need something like this. After all, that apparently was the impetus for Safari for Windows so I'd say it's an open question. -Eric On Oct 18, 2007, at 3:42 AM, AwayBBL wrote: > > OK, so when there's an SDK in Feb, what do I need to buy to get > started? I'm a PC guy right now, so I assume I'll need a Mac. I also > assume I'll need a development environment. Any suggestions on a > minimal platform that I should buy to get started(I'm on a low > budget). Are the Mac development tools good(is there a good IDE, good > sample code...etc?) > > > > On Oct 17, 1:47 pm, "Dennis Baldwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> They've definitely sucked in the past, but recently I was blown >> away with >> J2ME support on the Blackberry 8800. We wrote an app that tied >> into the GPS >> API and uploaded location data to our remote server. At any rate, >> the app >> sat on the main screen of the device like any other native app and >> the fact >> that we could get GPS information via Java was pretty rare (at >> least on GSM >> devices). If you ever get a chance check out Google Maps for the >> 8800 >> series devices....insanely impressive and written in Java. >> Nonetheless, I >> ditched it for my iPhone :) >> Regards, >> Dennis >> >> Ublip, Inc.www.ublip.com >> >> On 10/17/07, Andy Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>>> another way, Java isn't truly native, yet that's how apps are >>>> written >>>> for the Blackberry. >> >>> Yes, and they suck ;-) >> >>> andy- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
