[iphone] iPhone App Development on Ubuntu

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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 ?

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/

There are two things I think you could try to develop iPhone applications.

1. 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

2. You can try cocoa

3. (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

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

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

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...

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.

It can be done!!!!!!

There is someone who did it.

Enjoy :)

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.