Namespace Carballude » Apple http://www.carballude.es/namespace A place to share our knowledge Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:18:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 iPhone / iPod Touch Hello World! http://www.carballude.es/namespace/2009/01/28/iphone-ipod-touch-hello-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=iphone-ipod-touch-hello-world http://www.carballude.es/namespace/2009/01/28/iphone-ipod-touch-hello-world/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:41:57 +0000 Carballude http://www.carballude.es/namespace/2009/01/28/iphone-ipod-touch-hello-world/ For the last few years I’ve been writing apps using Java and C#. Doubtless they’re good and powerful languages, however some tasks need to be performed with different languages.

I’ve bought an iPod Touch this Christmas and obviously I really want to develop my own applications for it but, unfortunately the only way is by using Objective-C.

As a computer scientist I’ve been trained on C++ but that was a long time ago and, the truth be told, just the basic stuff.

Be that as it may, I’ve decided to learn Objective-C and Cocoa in order to develop my own iPhone / iPod Touch applications :) I’ve found some tutorials at the Apple Developer Connection and at other blogs. Notwithstanding my lack of Objective-C knowledge, following the instructions I was able to develop a simple “Hello World!” in a couple of minutes.

Everything was great until I decided to deploy my application into my iPod. I couldn’t. Do you want to know why? Apple doesn’t allow me to deploy my own applications in my own iPod until I pay a developer license, which costs about $100 USD Dollars.

There is only one possible workaround, jailbreaking my device. Unfortunately I’ve a second generation one, and there is no jailbreaking available yet. As soon as I can I’ll jailbreak my device and try to deploy my applications.

What do you think about this Apple behaviour? Will Apple eventually shape up?

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