Ask HN: iPhone/iPad online app-development
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Apple does not support any development environment other than XCode on an Intel Mac.
Thus, if you want to do Objective-C development, your best bet is to get your hands on a Mac. Barring that, you could rig up Hackintosh, or Hackintosh VM in VMWare/Virtualbox.
If you are willing to consider some zanier options, there's a open source project that's attempting to create a portable iPhone toolchain: http://code.google.com/p/iphone-dev/.
If you're willing to forgo Objective-C, and try cross-compiled development, there's stuff like PhoneGap, xmlvm, etc.
Thus, if you want to do Objective-C development, your best bet is to get your hands on a Mac. Barring that, you could rig up Hackintosh, or Hackintosh VM in VMWare/Virtualbox.
If you are willing to consider some zanier options, there's a open source project that's attempting to create a portable iPhone toolchain: http://code.google.com/p/iphone-dev/.
If you're willing to forgo Objective-C, and try cross-compiled development, there's stuff like PhoneGap, xmlvm, etc.
Check out:
It might make more sense to buy your own Mac, after all. I initially assumed this service rented Mac Minis.
"We are a mac mini colocation service. In other words, we place your Mac mini in a high-end data center where you can use it as a server. We provide you with a menu of services including redundant very high speed internet connections, remote control electrical power, a highly secure location to house your Mac mini, and remote human hands."
http://www.macminicolo.net/
It might make more sense to buy your own Mac, after all. I initially assumed this service rented Mac Minis.
"We are a mac mini colocation service. In other words, we place your Mac mini in a high-end data center where you can use it as a server. We provide you with a menu of services including redundant very high speed internet connections, remote control electrical power, a highly secure location to house your Mac mini, and remote human hands."
http://www.macminicolo.net/
You can get a Mac Mini for $599, hook it to your network, and access it using logmein.com or some other remote access method. That's what I did to get started, and it's worked very well.
Obligatory Obj-C+iPhone Tutorial: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/
Is there any online tools which lets me submit code in Obj-C and which compiles and displays the app on a simulator?
Please do share if you have any other suggestions on the easiest way to get started.