Archive for the ‘programming’ Category
iPhone SDK
iPhone SDK can be downloaded from Apple now. There is a free version you can test and play with. It is $99 to become a registered developer and get a key so you can create applications people will be able to download from the iPhone application store beginning in June. For $299 you can obtain an enterprise license which allows you to develop in-house applications.
More details on the 30%Apple/70% developer split and tons of examples, demos, how tos etc are available on the Apple developer site.
Google phone developer kit released for all platforms
We are all looking forward to a hackable phone for which we can write applications. This toolkit allows you to write Java applications for the GPhone.
The Android Developer kit is available for Windows, Linux and OSX. There is also documentation and other useful things at that site.
There are many HTC phones rumored to be arriving with Android in 2008. HTC has really been doing a nice job in the smart phone market lately.
More information can be found at The Open Handset Alliance. There is also a very quiet beginning of a Forum on developing and using Android
And just to make things interesting Google is offering $10 million in prizes to developers
However many developers are reporting problems
It is strongly rumored that Android will be released Fall 2008 on an HTC handset.
