iPhone SDK on Windows alternative solutions

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I know there is no official SDK for Windows  which is very annoying  Is there any way to develop applications on a Windows computer  other than somehow running a Mac OS in VMware  I know you can do it with Xcode  but that is also only for Mac nbsp OS nbsp X  Google searches have revealed absolutely nothing   If I cannot use the SDK or Xcode  is there any way I can just check syntax or something and just make my code in Notepad and save it with the proper extension  I have no idea whether or not I would be able to do that  probably because I have never even tried the SDK and probably never will without buying a Mac

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I looked into this before buying a Mac Mini. The answer is, essentially, no. You pretty much have to buy a Leopard Mac to do iPhone SDK development for apps that run on non-jailbroken iPhones.

Not that it's 100% impossible, but it's 99.99% unreasonable. Like changing light bulbs with your feet.

Not only do you have to be in Xcode, but you have to get certificates into the Keychain manager to be able to have Xcode and the iPhone communicate. And you have to set all kinds of setting in Xcode just right.

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Technically you can write code in a  NET language and use the Mono Framework  http   www mono-project com   to run it on the iPhone  I haven t ever seen someone do this from scratch  but the folks that write the Unity Game Development platform  http   unity3d com   use it to make their games iPhone-compatible  The game itself is written in  NET  and then they provide an iPhone shell with the Mono frameworks that allows everything to run on the iPhone  I don t know whether they ve contributed all of their modifications to Mono back to the open-source repository  but if you re serious about writing iPhone apps outside the Mac environment  it might be possible   That said  I think you could dump weeks into getting that to work  and it might be best to invest in a Mac instead  -

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No  you must have an Intel Mac of some sort   I went to Best Buy and got a 24  iMac with 4G RAM for  1499 using their 18 month no interest promotion   I pay a minimum payment of something like  16 a month   As long as I pay the entire thing off within 18 months - no interest   That was the only way I was getting into iPhone development

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You could do what saurik of Cydia does  and write your code on a PC then build it on the iPhone itself  it is a Mac  technically   after you jailbreak it  However  you don t get Interface Builder  so you re basically creating UIs in code by hand  It d also be pretty tough to actually submit your app without a Mac

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There are two ways    If you are patient  requires Ubuntu corral pc and Android SDK and some heavy terminal work to get it all set up   See Using the 3 0 SDK without paying for the priviledge  If you are immoral  requires Mac nbsp OS nbsp X Leopard and virtualization  both only obtainable through great expense or pirating  - remove space from the following link  htt p   iphonewo rld  codinghut com  2009 07 using-the-3-0-sdk-without-paying-for-the-priviledge    I use the Ubuntu method myself

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No one has brought up the hackintosh  If you have supported hardware it might be the  best option

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http   maniacdev com 2010 01 iphone-development-windows-options-available   check this website they have shown many solutions     Phonegap Titanium etc

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You could easily build an app using PhoneGap or Appcelerators Titanium Mobile   Both of these essentially act as a WebKit wrapper  so you can build your application with HTML CSS JavaScript  It s a pretty portable solution  too  but you are somewhat limited in what you can make - i e  no intensive rendering or anything  It really all depends on what you re looking to do

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There is another solution if you want to develop in C C     http   www DragonFireSDK com will allow you to build iPhone applications in Visual Studio on Windows   It s worth a look-see for sure

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This really comes down to how much you value your time  As the other posters have mentioned  there are a couple of ways you can build iPhone apps without a Mac  However  you are jumping through serious hoops  and it ll be much more difficult and take longer than it would with the proper development chain   You can buy a second-hand Mac Mini for a couple of hundred bucks on eBay  If you re serious about doing iPhone development you ll make this back in saved time very quickly

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