I'd really rather not buy a Mac just to do this. I know there have been efforts to make it possible, but it's hard to tell which, if any, are worth my time.
Thanks!
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Not as far as I know
They all require the iPhone SDK which is only available with XCode (which is Apple software).
Josh K
2010-09-10 22:47:52
somebody, please tell him he's wrong ;)
Gabriel
2010-09-10 22:48:33
@Gabriel: Why don't you explain?
Josh K
2010-09-10 22:54:46
@Josh K, he probably means something like this: http://www.osnews.com/story/21564/Building_a_Hackintosh_Apple_Can_t_Sue_You_For
ergosys
2010-09-10 23:08:34
@ergo: Ah, so let's cobble together a computer to develop on. That is anexcellent idea.
Josh K
2010-09-11 00:01:40
@Josh K, worked for woz!
ergosys
2010-09-11 03:04:02
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I've wondered about this sort of thing before... I found this thread about the same topic from another forum: http://ask.metafilter.com/110466/Anyway-to-develop-iPhoneiTouch-apps-without-investing-in-a-Mac
Basically, there are ways of dubious legality to run OSX without having a Mac so this would be a possiblity for a testing environment if you want to go through the trouble, I have heard of the VMware OSX images before and this may be easiest way to do it, haven't tried it myself though
Rick
2010-09-10 22:48:20
+1
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There is a project call xmlvm that supposedly supports crosscompiling Java code to iPhone/Objective-C, I suppose it would also work on an IPod Touch (though I'm not sure, I think that since the code won't be properly signed the device will need to be jailbroken, can you do that on an Ipod Touch?). The links seems to be down (for me) at the moment though, but the google cache of the pages gives some details.
ho1
2010-09-10 22:51:38