iPhone App Development on Ubuntu

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Possible Duplicate    Starting iPhone app development in Linux        Is there a way to use Ubuntu Linux for developing iPhone applications destined to be listed on Apples app store

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Probably not  While I can t log into the Apple Development site  according to this post you need an intel mac platform   http   tinleyharrier blogspot com 2008 03 iphone-sdk-requirements html

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I found one interesting site which seems pretty detailed on how you could setup a ubuntu for iPhone development  But it s a little old from November 2008 for the SDK 2 0   Ubuntu 8 10 for iPhone open toolchain SDK2 0  The instructions also include something about the Android SDK Emulator which you can leave out

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With some tweaking and lots of sweat  it s probably possible to get gcc to compile your Obj-C source on Ubuntu to a binary form that will be compatible with an iPhone ARM processor  But that can t really be considered  iPhone Application development  because you won t have access to all the proprietary APIs of the iPhone  all the Cocoa stuff    Another real problem is you need to sign your apps so that they can be made available to the app store  I know of no other tool than XCode to achieve that   Also  you won t be able to test your code  as they is no open source iPhone simulator    maybe you might pull something off with qemu  but again  lots of effort ahead for a small result   So you might as well buy a used mac or a Mac mini as it has been mentioned previously  you ll save yourself a lot of effort

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Perhaps the best way would be to implement your app as a web app   I think you can also make web apps that run direct on the phone  without internet access or a remote server   Web app  sounds lame   But a lot can be done with DHTML   HTML5   JavaScript   It s a rare app that requires more power and couldn t be done as a web app   And you get pretty good cross platform with Web   JavaScript - the browsers vary a bit but a good web dev can write one web app that works pretty much everywhere   Of course if you re writing a high-performance 3D game  the browser might not deliver what you need   maybe in a few years     Apparently some Google hackers ported Quake 2 to HTML5 already   http   web appstorm net roundups browsers 10-html5-games-paving-the-way

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Many of the other solutions will work  but they all make use of the open-toolchain for the iPhone SDK  So  yes  you can write software for the iPhone on other platforms    BUT     Since you specify that you want your app to end up on the App Store  then  no  there s not really any way to do this  There s certainly no time effective way to do this  Even if you only value your own time at  20 hr  it will be far more efficient to buy a used intel Mac  and download the free SDK

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Not officially  no  It s just Objective-C though and the compiler s open source - you could probably get the headers and compile it and somehow get the binary on the device  Another option is compiling on the device  All these options will require jailbreaking though  A Mac Mini is just  599

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There are two things I think you could try to develop iPhone applications    You can try the Aptana mobile wep app plugin for eclipse which is nice  although still in early stage  It comes with a emulator for running the applications so this could be helpful You can try cocoa   Extra  Here is a nice guide I found of guy who managed to get the iPhone SDK running in ubuntu  hope this help - -  iPhone on Ubuntu

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There are several way to do it  may decide to go the native way by downloading a VM application for linux and the install Mac OS in your VM and then download the Xcode application for mac But the true is i tried this path but it was really long so i decide to get sencha touch and phonegap for mobile phone here the sencha-touch is a javascript framework that will help you in developing the interfaces and the phonegap is also javascript library which will help to access the feature of your Iphone or any oher mobile platform I m using sencha-touch and phonegap  its really work for me

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It can be done        There is someone who did it   Enjoy

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