iPhone is rapidly mobilizing internet users & creating its own standards.
At the time this post is written, there are millions of iPhones in use & numbers are increasing really fast. So, it is becoming very hard to stay in-compatible with it.
There are 2 main ways to deliver your content / product into iPhone:
- As an application
- As a compatible website (can act like an application)
The major differences between them are, an application can use all the iPhone features (like sounds, movements…), work offline where a webpage cannot (technically yes but it is not functional) and an application can be sold / distributed via the iPhone store.
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iPhone Application Development Tools
Tools that are must when creating for iPhone like the SDK or the optional ones that you’ll find very handy.
iPhone Dev Center By Apple
The main & official source for creating iPhone applications. It provides great & very detailed information & iPhone SDK can be downloaded from here.
Free membership is required for reaching the content. To download development tools like Xcode & distribute your iPhone apps via the store, you need the pay for it.
PhoneGap
PhoneGap is an open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript.
iPhoney - Free iPhone Web Simulator
iPhoney, powered by Safari, gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It’s the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development
TestiPhone.com - Free iPhone Simulator
A web based application that enables you to test the look & dimensions of iPhone applications.
iUI
A very functional iPhone UI library. It aims to turn standards-based HTML into iPhone compatible interfaces.
To give an example: it transforms <a> tags into sliding interfaces rather then opening a new page. You can read the introduction of the author & see an example (digg for iPhone) created with it.
