Developing iPhone apps
Having been a big fan of the iPhone for a long time now I have decided it is time I had a go at learning how to produce a simple iPhone application. The user interface on the iPhone is in my opinion the
greatest user interface I have ever used and would love to get to a level of experience where I can maybe bring the 2 technologies together for better ways for users to interact with SAP. Anyway that’s a
while off yet so lets focus of learning how to create iPhone apps. If anyone wants to learn at the same time and maybe share learning material drop me an email or
post a comment below.
Just as a quick update to this project a number of people have contacted me about iphone development and how to get started. Well the first thing
you need to know about developing native iphone apps is that you need an Apple mac pc/laptop running Apples operating system. You also need to
register and pay for the iphone developer kit. If you have these or you are happy to purchase them then your next stepp is to have a go at the
examples on this page starting with the helloworld app.
If you don’t want to go down this route then don’t despair there is another way, one which could in many instances produce an application equally
as effective. This alternative which I am actually exploring myself involves developing iphone web apps using HTML, CSS and javascript. Apps
developed using this method can be created to perform and look just like a native iphone application. The best way to learn about this method
is to check out http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com which is an online
version of a very good book on this subject. Infact I recently started reading this book myself and by using your iphone web browser you can check
out my attempt at the first section here http://www.sapdev.co.uk/iphoneversion/test.htm
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