How do I get my program on to the iPhone and the iPod touch? I have an idea and want to make it into a program. Where do I start?
You can start with the theory and search the Internet for tutorials and courses. Or you start right away with the practical side and hack code into your computer. This series of posts will take you through the first steps to get started and will point out some resources on the net where you will get more information.
Let’s start by setting up the computer on which you want to do the programming. If you intent to publish your app in the App Store you will have little choice but to learn Objective-C and to use Xcode. If you aim for the Jailbreak world and want to distribute via Cydia you have the choice of several tool chains and several programming languages. The developer exchange section at http://www.hackint0sh.org/ forums will be a good place to start looking.
In this series of posts I will look at Objective-C and Xcode as that is what I am familiar with. I did not look to deeply at the other tool chains that are available. I do use other programming languages for development as part of my day time job but I on the iPhone I use Objective-C.
Read on in the next part.
