By Jessica Kirkpatrick


There is a shift from laptops to smaller and convenient smart phones as the mobile professional tool of choice. When you can have most of your needed tools in a device like the iPhone along with internet access many choose this option for their life. These tools need programs though so there is a future for those who want to become a iPhone app developer to offer these solutions.

With its ease of use and its support by several after market vendors the device has bloomed into a platform that can be used for several purposes. With that growth there is a demand for more applications for everything from finances to games to many other areas. This phone has had the most apps sold for any smart phone and there is no sign that the demand will go down in the future.

So if your goal is to develop for this platform one of the points that is helpful is to have some basic programming knowledge to help jump start your goal. Two areas that are especially helpful are to have some knowledge of the C programming language and object oriented programming basics. If you do not know these areas there are many free tools and tutorials to help you learn so you have a firm base for your future programming goals.

The next step is to get the tools which would be a Mac machine, a iPhone and possibly a iPad as test tools. The Mac can be the lowest version but for the development tools to run properly you can not use another operating system like Windows without some big difficulties coming up. This is the basic hardware you will need to develop your applications on.

Then you need to obtain the programming tools that you will use to create your applications. There are many tools such as Unity3D for game development that you can look at. Many courses though use the Apple software development kit and Objective C for their trainings so you may want to start with these tools to begin with.

Finding some form of training is the last step in becoming a iPhone app developer. There are several free resources from Apple and other sites to get you started. Then additional education can be obtained through books, multimedia or live courses depending on how you learn a topic the best.




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