Alternatives For iOS Development Under Windows

Nathan Campos picture Nathan Campos · Dec 26, 2010 · Viewed 40.1k times · Source

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How can I develop for iPhone using a Windows development machine?
iPhone development on Windows

I just got my new iPad and now I have two iOS devices, an iPod and an iPad. So I realized that iOS is a great OS to develop some stuff, but the problem is that I'm under Windows and I don't have any plans to buy a Mac. Anyway what I want isn't the port of the SDK for Windows, so I can develop in Objective-C. But what I want is to know all(maybe) the alternatives that I have to develop for the iPad(that I'm a lot more interested right now) and the other iOS devices.

PS: I'm interested at Application development, not game development

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Juho Vepsäläinen picture Juho Vepsäläinen · Dec 26, 2010

You might find following solutions handy. I have tried to comment those I am more familiar with:

Hopefully you'll find an alternative fitting your purposes. It really depends on what you already know. For instance if you are already familiar with Ext JS using Sencha Touch seems like a no-brainer to me.

To get an app to App Store it looks like the only solution (at least AFAIK) is to use PhoneGap for packaging your JS app. You will need XCode (mac) for this. Perhaps it's possible to use a virtualized version of OS X for this as well though I cannot guarantee this will work.