Custom Native iPhone Apps

Just like Symbian applications on most mobile phones, Apple’s famous iPhone already caught the eyes of hacking community to invade its mobile functionality and develop your custom native applications for your iPhone.

Apple already released thier official SDK, which is currently on beta stage, where you can build, test and run (on Simulator) your customized navite application.

The official SDK runs only on Mac OS X 10.3 and later, lol, dissapointed Win Users? Yup, Obviuosly iPhone’s architecture is based on ARM and is Darwin-based platform (Mac’s kernel). SDK provides development environment to manage your native application project, the XCode, the official IDE for developing Mac Applications.

On some Linux distribution, unofficial SDK (Tool Chain) is used to compile and build native applications. iPhone-Dev maintains the toolchain for applicaton development. Development on this unofficial SDK or tool chain is a complex process, from compiling the tool chain itself, to integrating with the iPhones file system (firmware version compatibility) and to the actual deployment of the binary appplication to the actual mobile device. But of course, hard works deserve a price, because deployment of binary application on actual iPhone is FREE! Not sure on SDK, because you can only test your application on official SDK’s simulator and requires provisioning profile or keychain (certificate) in order for you to deploy the application on the mobile device which has a minimum of US$ 99. ^_^

Not sure if there’s some hack or tricks on this in order to deploy your official application on iPhone without needing the developer’s certificate from Apple.

So its your choice wether you go official or unofficial… ^_^