Tools for iPhone development

IPhone OS is the system implemented by Apple that allows you to run native applications on mobile devices: iPhone, iPod Touch and iPod. The iPhone OS development is a selling point of Apple products. The security measures continue to evolve into the world’s biggest Smartphone operating system, while security researchers and hackers try to evade its security model. Apple has come across a lot of security concerns by the users, but the company always stack-up against all relevant insecurities. The architecture of this platform builds on the core system Mac OS X and adds a new layer that supports the multi-touch interface and accelerometer. The minimum requirements to start developing on this platform are: 

1.      Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or later

2.      iPhone SDK 2.0 or later

3.      Mobile device for testing (optional)

The iPhone SDK contains the information, tools and code needed to test, develop, debug, run and tune apps for the iPhone OS. To fulfil that purpose, several applications are used. Within this kit are three main applications:

1.      Xcode: Contains a set of tools for developing applications. It allows: editing, debugging and compiling the source code.

2.      Interface Builder: Enables the creation of graphical interfaces and linking with Xcode.

3.      iPhone Simulator: Runs applications developed an emulator of the device.

Integrated development environment (IDE) belongs to Xcode of Apple Inc. and is provided free with Mac OS X. Xcode works with Interface Builder, which is a tool for creating graphical user interfaces. Xcode includes a collection of compilers and can compile the code  through a wide range of programming model.    Various features of Xcode is basically related to the technology that is used for delivering   process  of building from source code among multiple computers. Xcode was introduced on October 24 of 2003 with version 10.3 of Mac OS X, being developed from previous Apple development environment.

The appearance of Xcode 2.1 launched in June of 2005 was significant because it provided the developer community the tools to create universal binaries that allow software created for Mac OS X be run on the architecture PowerPC and the new, based on Intel (x86). This version also integrates the tools and frameworks WebObjects. The development package "Xcode Tools" contains many different components. In addition to editors and compilers, it also includes tools to create installation packages for profiling and analysis of hardware for editing configuration files and create icons. But the key development components are: "Xcode IDE" consists of a built-in code and data editor, project and file management, graphical debugger and compiler, version control, documentation assistant and the hardware simulator of the iPhone.

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