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From the News Desk
Thursday, 18. October 2007
Apple Opens iPhone Programming to Third Party
Apple will finally allow third-party developers to create programs for the iPhone.
Apple announced that it would provide a software development kit for third parties to create applications for the company's popular iPhone and iPod Touch.
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO said, “We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers' hands in February."
SDK is a software developer’s kit, a set of tools that allows programmers to hook into the iPhone.
The developer kit would allow independent software makers to create mobile games, navigation systems, screen-shot capture programs and other tools more easily.
Third-party developers are people who don't work at Apple or companies with special relationships to Apple, like Google.
Sometime back, Apple released an update for iPhone that erased programs made by independent developers and caused some phones to freeze up.
The company will not change the policy that forbids users from unlocking the iPhone to use it with carriers other than AT&T.
Presently, Apple forbids the third-party users from building programs that run on the iPhone. Instead, developers can only make programs for the Web, which can then run on the iPhone's Safari Web browser.
Developers criticised this and said Safari-encased Web applications cannot be used without a live Internet connection, and do not share prime application icon space in the iPhone's main window.
Analysts say the introduction of the developer’s kit is a positive development.
Apple announced that it would provide a software development kit for third parties to create applications for the company's popular iPhone and iPod Touch.
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO said, “We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers' hands in February."
SDK is a software developer’s kit, a set of tools that allows programmers to hook into the iPhone.
The developer kit would allow independent software makers to create mobile games, navigation systems, screen-shot capture programs and other tools more easily.
Third-party developers are people who don't work at Apple or companies with special relationships to Apple, like Google.
Sometime back, Apple released an update for iPhone that erased programs made by independent developers and caused some phones to freeze up.
The company will not change the policy that forbids users from unlocking the iPhone to use it with carriers other than AT&T.
Presently, Apple forbids the third-party users from building programs that run on the iPhone. Instead, developers can only make programs for the Web, which can then run on the iPhone's Safari Web browser.
Developers criticised this and said Safari-encased Web applications cannot be used without a live Internet connection, and do not share prime application icon space in the iPhone's main window.
Analysts say the introduction of the developer’s kit is a positive development.
