App development for jailbroken iOS devices?

Question

I know you need a Mac and Xcode and an SDK. But is it possible to develop applications for jaibroken devices and / or conventional devices using Windows / Linux platforms?

Edit

Also, what is the low score in the Airplay SDK? I heard that this is pretty good, but does not give the same performance as an application developed through Xcode. Found this PDF document, why is it

Answer 1

The short answer is YES.

Although I'm not quite sure what you mean by “ONLY” for jailbreak devices, but if you have any experience with flash scripts or action scripts, check out Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5. This is a program that allows you to create and create your own applications for ipod / iphone / ipad.

http://www.adobe.com/products/flash.html

I have used it for many years and consider it ideal.

Answer 2

In fact, you can, and what programming is. If you are a tough programmer, you can do a lot of cross-platform and cross-hardware. Keep in mind that no matter how cool Steeve Jobs (or pretends) is for Apple, and maybe even for non-Apple consumers, they care about their profits and will never officially announce that they’re creating apps for the iPhone and others iOS devices maybe on a PC too. That way they make you get a Mac. They are very successful in making people believe that creating iPhone apps is otherwise not possible.

Answer 3

There is a toolchain for Linux platforms , but it does not have Interface Builder or other subtleties. Here is an example application that uses it.

Answer 4

You may be looking for theos . Check out this thread .

Of course, your toolchain should be installed, which should not be so difficult. There are many projects that are related to the Linux iOS toolkit. Windows is another story: P (not to say it's impossible!).

Answer 5

The short answer is that fundamentally iPhone OS uses Cocoa, which is a closed infrastructure distributed only with Xcode. Some people thought about reverse engineering (like Wine), but I don't think anyone really succeeded so far, not to mention using Cocoa as a development environment.

You may be able to create some debian packages (dpkg) that can be run in the background or through a mobile terminal. This is a kind of limitation because you do not have access to the graphical interface and your application will not be very intuitive.

There seems to be a development platform for porting Blender game logic to a full iphone game. You might be able to avoid Xcode this way, but I doubt it. http://sio2interactive.com/

You can run OSX in Virtualbox / VMWare Player, but this is prohibited by Apple.

Answer 6

Do not listen to other people who insist that you get a Mac. You just need to download a copy of the hacked VMWare with Mac pre-installed from http://thepiratebay.org/ . You also need to download a copy of the cracked VMWare player from the same site. Then download Xcode inside Mac. No need to pay anything. I use it and work great.