I finally made some progress on the iPhone app front. Yipee.
I was reading Saurik's article, Upgrading the iPhone Toolchain, when it suggested that I should join the chatroom #iphone at irc.saurik.com. Luckily, I took that bit of advice, and users AWright4911 and Maximus gave me a bit of help. I was gonna try and bother my co-worker, Nihal Ahmed, but he could not be reached for comment. Anyways, I learned lots with just a few answers to some of my questions, which I am going to catalogue here. If it isn't immediately obvious, I have very little programming experience, so my blogging is aimed at those enterprising entrepreneurs who want to start something completely out of their current skill set and comfort zone. A lot of it will be painfully obvious for those well-versed in programming, so if anyone actually reads this blog, you can correct me when I'm way off.
- Here we go. Apparently, Cydia takes Objective-C. You write it, debug it on your device by signing it, then send the code to BigBoss or ModMyi. I don't know what I was imagining when I thought of the Cydia app approval process, but it was good to get that bit of input. Lots to learn still. I now have to get cracking on learning Objective-C.
- Also, I don't need the iPhone toolchain if I have a Mac, I think.
- Even better, I found theiphonewiki.com. Much to read about there.
- Now I can make more sense of iPhone Open Application Development.
Not much else to share. I'll bring more knowledge back when I actually get some. There is hope!
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