A good place to start learning writing apps for the iphone ?

Question

Hi all,

I was wondering what would be the steps I need to follow if I am just an individual looking to write my own apps and get it approved by apple to feature on their store. Also, is it just objective-c I need to learn or what other skills would I require ?

What would be a good tutorial or a place to start ? What are the tools I require? I found this but still for those of you developing there...I would appreciate any help sorry if this was too generic..all I want is good direction..

Answer 1

Personally I think that books are a good way to learn. For example, here are a few: http://www.markj.net/iphone-development-programming-books/

You will need:

An Intel Mac

XCode

A $99 developer fee if you want to actually build for a device/put it on the actual device

Answer 2

I agree with Andrew M - but would add that Apple's sample code is a good way to learn by example. You can look at code and reference material without becoming an iOS Developer. iOS Reference Library

You can do a lot in the iPhone Simulator but at some point you will need to pony up $99 (per year) to start testing on devices.

Answer 3

I recently started with iPhone app development in school. I read the Head First iPhone book which was a decent start just to get into it. I highly recommend the iPhone lecture series from Stanford University available for free on iTunes U.