Developing iPhone Application From non-Mac Pc - Part-1

The popularity of iPhone is incressing so programmer’s are very much interested to write application for iPhone. To develop application for iPhone it’s must be needed to a Mac pc but Mac pc is so expensive so many programmer’s are not thinking more about it.This article is for those who are more interested to develop but havn’t Mac pc.

This article split in two section, In frist section we prepare the development environment for and in second section we develop “hello world” program.

Prepare Development Environment:

The Development environment is based on OSx86 project, therefore we use non-Apple pc. OSx86 is a collaborative "hacking" project to run the Mac OS X computer operating system on non-Apple personal computers with x86 architecture processors

There are many distribution is available Kalyway, iPc, iDeneb etc.we need any one from that. Here we use iDeneb 1.4.

1) Install iDeneb 1.4 :

iDeneb is a Mac OS X Leopard release modified by Layne and iHackintosh Team to run on non-Apple computers. This universal release can run on both Intel and AMD based machines.

2) Install iPhone Development SDK.With the SDK you get some tools like Xcode, Interface Builder, iPhone simulator, and many more