Developing iPhone apps

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/edit - should have said "Developing iPhone apps" in the title to avoid people thinking this is an interesting development re the iPhone....DOH! Hindsight eh?

Hello gents.

How would I go about learning to develop iPhone apps? I am curious mainly for personal use and kind of hobby-level interest really. I have no development experience at all (other than a bit of VBA in Excel / Access).

Where on earth would I start? Is it pheasable (or should I have all sorts of development experience before hand)?

Your thoughts would be appreciated guys.
 
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When you sign up to become an iPhone Developer you get a resource centre with a load of useful sample code an tutorials.

Up until a few months ago it was prohibited to talk about development / your work on the SDK as it would violate the NDA (non-disclosure agreement), but Apple have changed their tune and now allow developers to talk about their work once it's published.

Reason I say this is, just so you understand why there's a lack of printed reference materials.

That said, there's good sites out there which have been going since before the rules were changed (don't care about the NDA it seems :p) so it depends if you don't mind reading documentation online.

I've tried a few apps using the official Apple resource centre links within XCode and get on well, but it would certainly have helped if I'd done more C++.

Good luck, and post the XCode files when you make you're first app, so we can give you some pointers :)
 
Awesome! Cheers guys!!!

I'll download those files tonight (at work at the mo).

Cheers for the offer of code review too EVH. I think I am going to try something v.simple to start with just to get to grips with it all.

Thanks again for the assists chaps, I have to say OCUK forum members rock!
 
As other have said, get the SDK downloaded, youll need a mac of some description, I have a mac mini & it does just fine.

If you want to actually test on the iphone you will have to invest in the $99 subsciption, which gives you the portal for getting certificates etc and the ability to actually make your apps available on app store if that's eventually what you want to do.

The free version has an iphone simulator, that lets you test most aspects, but not everything.

Also look out for 2 books:

ISBN 978-1-4302-1626-1 Beginning IPhone Development
ISBN 0-672-32586-1 Programming in Objective-C

I'm a novice at IPhone & Mac developement myself, but have proir programming experience & the 2 books plus the online dev centre resources are all I needed to get my head around it.

Hope this helps,
Matt.
 
If only we could share apps, that would be a good way to beta test them :)
 
That's great, thanks Smudge! I think I will check out those books too. Going to need all the help I can get (considering almost no dev experience *gulp*).
 
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