Develop iPod / iPad apps on a windows PC?
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ThatBattlefieldGuy
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You could try a Hackintosh
Not within Windows itself, no. Like said you will have to go the hackintosh or vmware route as Xcode is MAC only. It is a beautiful editor and free to download. The developer license will cost you $99 a year though if you want to use the iphone/ipad emulator and distribute your apps through the App Store. If you want to get into app development on the the cheap, pick up a mac mini.
SPS
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Hackintosh barely works from what I've read
ThatBattlefieldGuy
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Depends on the components. My hackintosh almost worked perfectly on my CPU, but there werent drivers for my mobo and gpu at the time. Tonymacx86.com is the haven for hackintosh. I'd say if youre serious about developing by a 2nd hand Mac mini or buy some components for a hackontosh. Fyi: get a gigabyte board as they have the most support, but check before hand if a DSDT is available.
SPS
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Have you tried developing on Hackintosh?
ThatBattlefieldGuy
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No, but a hackintosh is a the same os just on PC hardware. I don't think it would interfere with developing in any way.
Youngie1337
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You might aswell just buy a Mac and do it the correct way. I run OSX on VMWARE on my 2500K fine, everything works as it should, not tried xcode mind you.
If you plan on developing for a long period of time, just buy a Mac and code... otherwise VMWARE will do the trick for small apps and such.
Mac are all about money, overpriced hardware & cheap OS with expensive apps.
Not many people develop for Mac, atleast not comparing to Win or Linux.
I've been compiling my mod for Win & Linux for the past 1 month + 1 week now, not touched Mac as the dependancies are ridiculous. I will however have to in the end, but compiling a new rev. every day is time consuming and the build scripts suck.
No idea why people want to develop for Apple hardware, unless they're after £££ for small apps on the App store... which Apple will make a lot more profit on.
You do the hard work, they reap the rewards... it's always the same with Apple. Rely on outsourcing & external developers to write decent software and slap a high priced label on it.
Develop for Android or Win, C# is a perfect language to learn. Win based & also 99% of the games on the Xbox Live Marketplace are written in C#... very similar to Objective C & VB.NET...
If you plan on developing for a long period of time, just buy a Mac and code... otherwise VMWARE will do the trick for small apps and such.
Mac are all about money, overpriced hardware & cheap OS with expensive apps.
Not many people develop for Mac, atleast not comparing to Win or Linux.
I've been compiling my mod for Win & Linux for the past 1 month + 1 week now, not touched Mac as the dependancies are ridiculous. I will however have to in the end, but compiling a new rev. every day is time consuming and the build scripts suck.
No idea why people want to develop for Apple hardware, unless they're after £££ for small apps on the App store... which Apple will make a lot more profit on.
You do the hard work, they reap the rewards... it's always the same with Apple. Rely on outsourcing & external developers to write decent software and slap a high priced label on it.
Develop for Android or Win, C# is a perfect language to learn. Win based & also 99% of the games on the Xbox Live Marketplace are written in C#... very similar to Objective C & VB.NET...
I couldn't agree more, nice to see someone who isn't fooled by pretty marketing.
