I was doing some research and wanted to create an iphone application for my social network for bloggers. http://www.blogengage.com Do I really need to join this club? http://developer.apple.com/iPhone/program/ Or is there another way?
Hi. To develop an iPhone application you need to learn Objective-c. To learn objective-c , you need to learn c, c++. Have a nice day.
Try this tutorial http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_objectivec/ and this forum: http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/
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you don't have to pay to be an iphone developer (from your link) but if you want to test out your application on anything other than your simulator on your computer, you'll need to pay the $99. You can download the SDK for free.
The bad thing when developing iPhone/iPod was I need to buy Mac to compile the application But to start coding, you absolutely need knowledge of C