iPhone Mobile Application Development
iPhone mobile application development is a new and useful domain, which is emerging worldwide due to the growing popularity of iPhone and the possibility of various functionalities that this technological wonder comes to offer.
iPhone is a multimedia smartphone designed and developed by Apple.Inc. The iPhone is currently available only in the Mac OS X 10.5 platform and thus, Mac OS X 10.5 the only platform used for the development of iPhone applications.
The Apple iPhone open application development is offered mainly in the following categories:
- Business
- Finance
- Document management & processing
- Internet / Social networking / web interactive
- News
- Games
- Entertainment
- Utility
- Weather & etc...
Further, the task of mobile development of iPhone, on the basis of the nature of applications can be classified as follows:
- In-built features integration with the OS architecture
- Upgrades and enhancements
- Innovative plug-ins and add-ons
- IPhone content development
- IPhone-compatible mobile website development and so on
The iPhone application development process
- The developmental tool: Apple.Inc has facilitated a software development tool/kit called the iPhone SDK, for the development of applications on iPhone by third-party developers.
- The de facto language: Objective C (based on C programming) is the standard programming language used for iPhone applications development.
- Testing/debugging: Apple Inc. has availed �iPhone simulators' in its website to check the usability and functionality of the applications developed.
- Distribution/ hosting: The sole distribution and hosting channel for iPhone applications is Apple's �AppStore'.
