I’ve recently decided to start developing on the iPhone platform. I wanted to share here all links and resources I found to get started.

Getting started

• iPhone Developer Program official page
  • Enroll in the ADP (you need a license to develop and submit your apps)
• iPhone Development Quick Start (iPhone Dev Center)

Learn Objective-C

iPhone applications are primarily written in Objective-C. Get more information about this language on Wikipedia.

Basically, Objective-C is an object-oriented programming language which adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.

On the excellent Pragmatic Bookshelf, you can find books and screencasts such as :

• Introduction to The Objective-C Programming Language (iPhone OS Reference Library)
• Beginning Mac Programming: Develop with Objective-C and Cocoa by Tim Isted
• Coding in Objective-C 2.0 with Bill Dudney

Introductions, tutorials and examples I found around :

• Learning Objective-C: A Primer (iPhone OS Reference Library)
• source code repository for the 3.0 edition of the iPhone Developer’s Cookbook
• Learn Objective-C (Cocoa Dev Central)
• A Quick Objective-C 2.0 Tutorial (Theocacao)

I also found a lot of excellent resources on iTunes-U:

Books from Amazon

I didn’t read all these books, I’ve just selected books with a good rating.

Learn Cocoa

• Introduction to Cocoa Application Tutorial (Mac OS X Reference Library)
• Learn Quartz (Cocoa Dev Central)
• Learn Cocoa (Cocoa Dev Central)

iPhone development

Hello World

• Beginner iPhone SDK Hello World Tutorial
• UITableView Hello World
• iPhone SDK Hello World Tutorial
• iPhone coding tutorial: Hello world!

Hello World in video

• Xcode Hello World iPhone App
• Hello World iPhone Tutorial

More tutorials and application examples

• iPhone Development Emergency Guide a guide for competent developers who haven’t written code for the iPhone platform before, and just want to get started right now.
• The Ultimate Toolbox for iPhone Development a great source of resources.
• 43 iPhone Development Resources
• 100 Free Courses & Tutorials for Aspiring iPhone App Developers
• AppsAMuck Here you will find 31 examples to help you get started as an iPhone developer.
• How to Create Your First iPhone Application very informative, neat article.
• Good Practices: iPhone Development
• Servin iPhone and iPod Touch Apps

FAQ

• What is the difference between window based and view based iphone apps ?

I hope you find these resources useful. Next articles will deal with iPhone development.