Mike Ash’s 22-Step, Month-Long iPhone Development Disaster Story

by Jody Mitoma on September 19, 2008 at 9:52 am

Are you interested in getting into iPhone development? Y’know, having your very own application on the iPhone App Store?…

Well if you are, have you any idea what-so-ever as to what you may be getting yourself into? Probably not, right?

No worries. Mike Ash has the full scoop for ya, which he posted about in his personal blog just yesterday for the world to read about.

Just know that the processes seems long, frustrating, annoying, aggravating, and long (did I say that already?).

Here’s a snippet of the man’s words:

I just got my first application in the iTunes App Store, and I wanted to tell the story of what it’s like to publish one, from start to finish. The app, NetAwake, is an independent project I wrote with my friend Joshua. It makes an interesting story, I think, because unlike the sordid tale of some people’s struggle to get accepted into the iPhone developer program, my personal experience was perfectly normal. (As far as I know.)

But even a perfectly normal experience with the iPhone developer program is intensely weird. Compared to the simplicity of developing and distributing a Mac app, Apple’s iPhone program is extremely convoluted and strange. Here’s the story, step by step.

1. Sign up with the iPhone Dev Center
The iPhone Dev Center is Apple’s portal page for iPhone development. Here, you can download the SDK and find tutorial videos and documentation. For reasons unknown to me, merely having an account with the Apple Developer Connection does not suffice. I have to sign up again for the iPhone site. This is pretty straightforward, however: just click through some scary legal forms and off you go. Now I can download the SDK and get started.

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To read the interesting, full story, check out the source link provided just below.

(via Mike Ash)

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