Friday, August 14, 2009

Hardware need for iPhone development

IPhone application development hardware has a minimum requirement, not that iPhone can not start programming. This small guide provides an overview of the essential hardware needed for the development of iPhone and also mentions the alternatives where possible.

Mac Machine

One of the first hardware for any budding iPhone developers should buy Intel-based Mac Book or Mac machine for iPhone applications can only be developed with Apple OS-X. The non-Intel-based Mac computers are not available for iPhone application development? Yes, that area.

Is a Power PC Mac for iPhone development?

A Power PC Mac, but production is slow, to say the least, and result in extremely low productivity. An iBook is worse, so better stick to a powerful Intel-based Mac PC to your iPhone application development. Despite this, if you still want to use the PowerPC running leopard 10.5.4 or later.

Old or new Mac?

Although both works, a new dual-core Mac machine should gallop and when the race for iPhone development is strictly want to sprint and not trot, right? However, you can choose between a Mac Book (or Mac Mini) and a PC as Mac XCode and Interface Builder runs smoothly on both machines. What Mac you have chosen, so that at least 2 GB of RAM for good performance.

iPhone

iPhone applications can be developed using the iPhone Simulator that comes with the iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit), but the problem arises when you want to test the application of GPS functionality, or access the internet from the application. In such cases, the iPhone simulator is not enough and you have no other option but to purchase an iPhone. But what can be done without GPS and the Internet, the iPhone Simulator for iPhone application development do fine.

When you're done minimum hardware you ready for a great iPhone applications and games.

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