Newbie for development for iphone

Hi there, I wan to start to develop apps for iphone..after few round of research, I know I need basically 2 items to staff: A Mac machine and iphone SDK.
The question is which mac should i get of which more suitable for development?
1) Mini Mac
2) Macbook
3) IMac
Im thinking of Mini Mac, as it is cost effective but Im not sure if it is good enough for development. Any expert advise pls? Appreciate your help.
Note that Im new and never use an Mac before.

Go for the cheapest (Mac Mini) as it will be good enough for your needs.
If development goes well and you sell a few apps or love developing soooo much, you could always buy another machine in the future.
PS It would be a good idea to have an iPhone too - most of your testing can be done in simulator but not all.

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Titanium is good for iOS, but apparently not so good for Android. Moreover, it's not so cheap!
When one chooses a platform, one should also take into consideration the history and stability of the company which offers it.
That is why I would not go to Appcelerator: who knows what's behind the corner?
Sure, it is ironic that I say this after Adobe - a big company - has abandonded Flex...
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- Adobe Edge "Preview" + Adobe PhoneGap <--- Adobe says: you create animation for the web, you package it for an app. Not many people have tried it. But apparently it will work.
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- Adobe Flash professional CS6 + Create JS <--- you create animations in Flash, then you export to HTML5 and js for browsers which don't have flash. You can also package with AIR for iOS and Droid.
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     Con's: for how long will Adobe support this Create JS hack? When will Adobe say "OK, now you've done enough automatic porting to JS, from next release on you move to Edge, or to - wait for it - a version of Flash which uses Javascript instead than ActionScript?"
Me, I don't know what to do. I am keen on FlashBuilder/Flex because it's fast to build. Apps are really compatible both with iOS and Android. It has Salesforce.com connectivity. It's cool.
However, there are two problems that get me stuck from continuing with FlashBuilder:
- OK for native apps but... how do I use the Flash Builder/Flex content for the mobile WEB? Flash Builder does not have the CreateJS capability. I do a cool interface and I cannot reuse it on the mobile web if not with apps?
- OK for HTML5 but... it's NOT as good as Flash now. Have you ever seen a Phonegap application with graphics? They're embarassing. Slow, imprecise. And non-compiled Edge stuff is not much better. Is it? any good example.
Bottom line: at the moment, HTML5 support does not seem good. On the other hand, Flex is NOT compatible with mobile web. What IS performing and promises to be compatible with mobile web in addition to native apps?
Flash Professional CS6.
Again.
I am happy if some-one belies me with good arguments.

Hello i bought my first mac and i want to become an iOS developer and creat app for iPhone iPad but now i have only iPad 4 and i want to buy iPhone 5s but I'm not sure to buy iphone5s now or wait for iPhone 6 because iphone6 may have bigger screen if i b

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i bought my first mac and i want to become an iOS developer and creat app for iPhone iPad but now i have only iPad 4 and i want to buy iPhone 5s but I'm not sure to buy iphone5s now or wait for iPhone 6 because iphone6 may have bigger screen if i buy iphone5s now can i creat app for iPhone 6 if it has bigger display without buying it just test it on iPhone 5s
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Mohammed Sadiq wrote:
Can we use c++ to develop applications for iPhone
Yes.
.... If so, how it is advantageous over objective C ?? ...
It's disadvantageous since the only top layer API available for native iPhone apps is Cocoa. Every time a C++ program needs to make a call into the UIKit framework, it must use Obj-C and it may be necessary to wrap that Obj-C in additional code to implement the interface. While Xcode (with a little help from gcc) makes it easy to mix C++ with Obj-C in the same file, a C++ class can't be made from an Obj-C parent and vice-versa.
Common reasons for using C++ in an iPhone app are: 1) A static library that wants a C++ interface is needed; 2) An app written in C++ is being ported to the iPhone; 3) The developer is much more comfortable with C++ and wishes to avoid Obj-C as much as possible. This can work if most of the app is OpenGL for example. In that case, only one short Obj-C file is necessary and most of that will be available as a Cocoa template.
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I've asked about Android- which I plan on targeting first- and it appears a major downside is that many AIR apps woud require additional software on older phones and that the required software is a bit of a space hog.
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Most of the information you've suggested there would be found in the source repository.
The only thing you really need is the purpose section, which says what the class is there for.
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I still have an old 3G which I use mostly as a ipod/radio. By accident I found you can overide the i-tunes block.
1. Select Apps in Apps store icon on the phone.
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Sometimes it says the Apps is for newer hardware, requiring motion sensors, front camera's etc.. just got to accept these ones don't work on legacy hardware.
4. Download does not work for all Apps, esp. newer ones written after os 4.21 or if the developer doesn't have the vintage apps archived- e.g. Instagram downloads, but won't run (wants to update), or WSJ and Barrons stalls and goes through a download loop.
I am not making this up, as I bought this old 3g unit on e-bay, after a complete factory reset I now have:
- Tune-in, FB, Pandora,Skype, Twitter, Bloomberg, MSNBC, Forbes, Marketwatch, Viber, amongst a host of other news apps like LATimes.
Some Apps will download ok, and then at activation says its too old and no longer supported e.g Whats App.
Otherwise, good luck. Tune-in, Pandora, Skype and Twitter is all I need to keep me happy with an old unit, even though I've got newer hardware. Never let anything die unnaturally.

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