Question

Dear all.
Today, I start to learn iOS. I don’t know what tool I need to install to develop IPhone applications.
At this time, I have a HP laptop which is running with Windows 7.

If you know about this, please tell me.

Thanks all.

Binh Nguyen

Answer 1

@Nguyen, If you want to use your HP laptop for developing for iPhone then its possible. I have seen people do it. But it will back fire at you and cost you more, coz macs GUI is very heavy for non mac devices and it causes them to crash all the time. My friend installed mac on VM ware and it caused him around 159$ to repair his pc (he was working on final cut pro). so if you want to just learn the objective c language then its ok, but it wont be good for actual software development and deployment. And plus Xcode is very heavy software (3GB approx), its the worlds best editor but you will face a lot of problems if you dont use mac and probably wont want to work on it again. So take my advice if you just want to learn objective c, you can probably do that by using some unix compiler too for compiling the code and s.

Hope this might help you decide. Bye

Edit: here is some of the links that will get you started with objective c and objective c on windows

http://www.ehow.com/how_5148893_start-learning-objectivec-windows.html

http://www.roseindia.net/iphone/objectivec/objective-c-windows.shtml

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/535198/best-way-to-learn-objective-c

http://techgossipz.blogspot.com/2011/01/learn-objective-c-on-windows.html

Enjoy.