Programming for ipad/iphone on Windows 7

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can I Program for ipad/iphone onn windows 7? and if I can please send me the link to the program and more

Posted 11-Jan-12 10:44am

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Updated 11-Sep-12 12:23pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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RaisKazi · Answer 1 · 2012-01-11T16:13:00

Solution 1

For IPhone/Mac development you require X-Code.

http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/

I do not think X-Code is supported on Windows Operating System. For more information you may refer below links.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=537583

http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-tools-utilities/63583-iphone-app-development-windows-7-platfrom.html

Posted 11-Jan-12 16:13pm

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[no name] 11-Jan-12 22:42pm

Looks like I have to get a $1440 mac :(

RaisKazi 12-Jan-12 0:06am

In long term it will transform into smiley. :)

[no name] 12-Jan-12 0:36am

True but its allot of money, and whats 300k?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Jan-12 0:53am

I am sure you are too far from being realistic!

The development method you were interested in and I've described need so much qualification, that the real development costs would absorb this $1440 in no time...

Also, please see my answer and my comments to the comment by Rais. Let's imagine you can successfully master all the techniques. Even in this case, using just Windows and iOS device would make this work to difficult without a Mac machine where you would need to do some debugging. It would save you some considerable amount of time if you are much more comfortable on Windows, but sooner or later you will need to use Mac anyway!
--SA

[no name] 12-Jan-12 1:05am

Are you saying there no point in programming? and I wont even stand a chance?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Feb-12 17:35pm

I gave you to many chances to learn something, in different areas.
To me, it looks like you blew them all one-by-one. No progress any any of the fields.
You need one thing: hard work.
--SA

RaisKazi 12-Jan-12 1:02am

Look at the SA's points, just next to his UserName in his Solution.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Jan-12 0:55am

Rais, this does not answer the OP's question, but what you say is the alternative, and it makes perfect sense. I voted 5.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2012-01-11T16:14:00

The only way I know is based on CLR: Mono with MonobjC which is a bridge to Objective-C and encapsulates Mac APIs like Cocoa, WebKit, etc.
I tried it with Mac OS X which worked very well, but it also provides a bridge to iOS.

I must warn you: it is not easy at all, need quite a good deal of general programming experience to master all that.

Now (sight…) am I supposed to provide all the links? There are too many. Let's start with main things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Runtime[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28software%29[^],
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page[^];

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C[^],
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/[^];

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobjc[^],
http://www.monobjc.net/[^];

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS[^],
http://www.apple.com/ios/[^];

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_%28API%29[^],
http://developer.apple.com/technologies/mac/cocoa.html[^].

This is only top-level references. You will need to master a big deal of each topic. You will need to browse programming documentation on each topic; moreover, there is no much documentation on MonobjC level; so you will need to find most of documentation in Apple programming guides and then find matching classes and members in MonobjC; this also requires good understanding of mechanisms.

Another problem is that you hardly debug it all on Windows. So, the approach will be developing and debugging the non-UI components on Windows. The MonobjC is not just a library; it is also a run-time system which you can run on Mac OS X or iOS. UI debugging requires MonoDevelop, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MonoDevelop[^],
http://monodevelop.com/[^].

With MonobjC, you can install special MonoDevelop plug-ins to allow visual development and UI debugging. I used it only on Mac OS X, not on Windows, so I'm not 100% sure it can be done. You cannot do it with Visual Studio. However, you can develop a UI project not using any "Designer"; this kind of project will be successfully compiled on Visual Studio and run on your iOS without recompilation. You can do it if you are really careful. In certain situations, you will need to address incompatibilities between .NET and Mono.

I also want to add, that this kind of cross development more difficult than, say, Windows-Linux cross-platform development, perhaps by an order of magnitude. Compared to Linux, Apple is really hostile to non-Apple developers. :-)

Care to try? :-)

Good luck,

—SA