iPhone App Development without Apple Mac OS
I found out that you don’t need to have Apple Mac OS to develop iPhone Application.
Previously I found out that the limitation of iPhone SDK only works on Apple Mac OS X Leopard machines and it was a letdown or a big hurdle to try developing iPhone applications.
That was until a friend, Kai Shen gave me a link to MobiOne.
There’s no need for the iPhone SDK or a separate Palm Pre IDE or even to have a certain operating sytem to take advantage of smart devices.
MobiOne is a desktop software (currently available for Windows only), that has emulator for iPhone and the Palm Pre.
Before you start to get all excited, it doesn’t really work like the iPhone SDK.
The emulator only acts like an emulator, or to be specific, a HTML browser for your ‘iPhone application’. 🙂
The Palm Pre version.
You can open a local HTML file or online site and access it like an application.
The software acts like a tool and has DOM Inspector, Profiler and also Debugger for your javascripts.
There is also a Geolocation feature where you can change your Latitude and Longitude to test your location-based app.
It might not be a full iPhone SDK replacement, but I think it does get the job done if you’re planning to create applications in HTML.
It is useful for application developers such as the one who developed PJNation.com.
So if you’re thinking of developing iPhone apps the quick and dirty easy way, and don’t mind people checking out your source code, I’d say go HTML and javascript! 🙂
Thanks to Kai Shen for the tips!