{"id":1730,"date":"2009-08-04T20:15:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T12:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2009-08-04T20:17:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T12:17:46","slug":"iphone-development-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/04\/iphone-development-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone development alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to quickly post about two things:<\/p>\n

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  1. Zii<\/a>: the iPhone-esque, jargon-laden, portable media device\/platform<\/li>\n
  2. Open Source languages\/IDEs that can target the iPhone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Zii Plaszma<\/a> is the “Stemcell Computing Platform to Innovate and Profit”. Aside from stupid naming all around, it looks like a neat device simliar to the iPod Touch<\/a>… but with hardware GPS, a HD camera, SDHC slot, 10 point multi-touch, and FullHD HDMI output. It runs a proprietary Linux-based OS called Plaszma OS, or alternatively Google’s Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    You can pick one up for US$399 with the SDK<\/a>, which runs under Ubuntu<\/a> 8.04 and includes: Eclipse<\/a> IDE, gcc<\/a>, gdb<\/a>, cmake, and the OpenGL ES<\/a> API.<\/p>\n

    Here’s a video full of crazy jargon:<\/p>\n

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    Now onto Open Source languages\/IDEs that can target the iPhone – for people who are keen on FOSS<\/a> or maybe simply aren’t down with Objective-C<\/a> or Xcode<\/a> (as a development environment).<\/p>\n

    Hugh over at Game Haxe<\/a> has managed to get a basic haXe<\/a> program running<\/a> on iPhone using the C++ build target, statically-linked SDL, and a bunch of other stuff. This means that developers familiar with AS3<\/a> could use a very similar language (and libraries) to target the iPhone. Definitely something to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n

    In related news (but on a potentially bigger scale), Miguel de Icaza<\/a> (of GNOME<\/a> and Mono<\/a> fame) recently blogged<\/a> that the MonoTouch<\/a> team has reached feature complete status and are looking for iPhone developers to try out Mono, and their MonoTouch C#<\/a> APIs, for the iPhone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I wanted to quickly post about two things: Zii: the iPhone-esque, jargon-laden, portable media device\/platform Open Source languages\/IDEs that can target the iPhone The Zii Plaszma is the “Stemcell Computing Platform to Innovate and Profit”. Aside from stupid naming all around, it looks like a neat device simliar to the iPod Touch… but with hardware … Continue reading “iPhone development alternatives”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-rU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}