How To Develop A Simple Iphone App & Submit It To Itunes
Along with the growing popularity iPhone has also become a medium for the people to earn
. If you are surprised by the previous sentence then to make it clear there is a medium known as iTunes which serves the same purpose. It is a market of iPhone apps that includes thousand of applications developed by different iOS developers across the globe. This platform offers you to submit the app developed by you and earn handsome amount if your app becomes a hit among the users. One can easily develop and iPhone app if he has creativity and brains to develop an interesting app. It has been regularly featured in news that even kids can make an app on iOS then we should also try to make it.
First and foremost information that one must need to know is that making an iPhone app is not entirely free of cost. One has to register on iTunes with a payment of about $99 to become a genuine member of it. Next step involves the use of Mac at different steps of development. It has proved to be an easy task for iphone application development for anyone.
Before developing an app it is necessary to craft its idea of working. It should be different from the apps that are already available on iTunes otherwise you will not receive the sufficient traffic.
Since iPhone development services are available to Mac users only therefore you will need a mini Mac to develop apps.
Register on developer website of Apple to become a developer of Apple. Registration on the website is absolutely free of cost. You just need to register and will have facility to use the same account information for iTunes.
After completing the registration you will be able to download the software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone. Remember it is a quite large file as it contains all the development tools, APIs and other files that support iOS.
Download the SDK depending upon the version that you are using currently.
Download the development environment for apps that is popularly known as XCode. This facilitates the development of applications on its environment.
After download and installation is done now you can use it to develop the iPhone app. iPhone application services can be built by choosing the appropriate templates that are available with the SDK.
For development you need to have knowledge of objective- C, a programming language that is used to develop applications.
After developing the application you can test it on the simulator given along with the IDE of XCode. This simulator provides you the real time experience of an iOS device and how your application will look on the device.
Now upload your app on iTunes but before that you need to submit a fee of $99. However it is a one time expense that you can cover up by earning from your innovative app.
Your app will be published on iTunes after approval from the developers of iTunes.