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How to code iPhone apps?
I have a great idea for an iphone application, but I don't know how to code it. I want to learn myself, but I'm having trouble locating good resources. Can anyone help me with some good resources or quality content on how to code iphone apps?
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The best place to start and learn is to look at resources straight from apple:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/
I agree with devguy.
There are excellent resources available on Apple's developer site, available to anyone who signs up for the free developer program. They cover everything from introduction to Obj-C to the iphone development environment specifics.
While you can test your app in the simulator for free, you'll have to pay the $99 iphone developer registration to be able to test/deploy on a phone or submit for the App store.
I used 'iPhone in Action - Introduction to Web and SDK Development' by Chistopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline, published by Manning (www.manning.com) and available as an electronic document
As mentioned previously by devguy and taplin, you want to go straight into the horse's mouth to get started: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/navigation/
You can join the apple developer program for free and have access to a lot of sample code that ranges from the simple to the complex and across multiple components like MapKit, CoreLocation and others. Objective C is reasonably straight forward if you have background in Java, C and/or C++. And I hope you have a Mac/Hackintosh because you'll pretty much be limited to using the XCode framework/platform to do the development and of course to run the simulator. Once you are comfortable, go ahead and do the registration for $99 (IOS) and start deploying to actual devices. You'll outgrow the simulator fairly quickly.
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