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zeboidlund
zeboidlund

Reputation: 10137

Objective-c and Cocotron

Is it truly a good API which can actually be used to develop applications for the iphone in Linux? The main reason I ask is because I really want to learn Objective-c, but also be able to port it to something as well.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 556

Answers (1)

Yuji
Yuji

Reputation: 34185

The answer is no. To develop an app for iOS, you need a Mac. The main development environment called XCode only runs on a Mac, and without XCode it is a serious pain to install the compiled app to the iOS devices to perform a test-run.

So, if you want to develop an app for iOS, and distribute the resulting app to the wider world (for non jailbroken devices), just give up hope and buy a Mac.

Now, if you just want to learn Objective-C, as NSResponder says, GNUStep is a good place, which replicates the OpenStep specification (which comes before NeXTStep took over Apple). Cocotron is on the other hand is a port of the main APIs of later OS X to Windows. (I don't know if Cocotron is ported to Linux or not.)

But you also need to understand that both GNUStep and Cocotron cover only Foundation (non-GUI parts of the Objective-C framework) and AppKit (desktop GUI parts of the Objective-C), not the UIKit (mobile GUI parts of the Objective-C). AppKit and UIKit are rather similar, so knowing one helps learning the other.

Upvotes: 2

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