So I picked up the “The God Phone” SDK the other day just for shits and giggles… and it gives me a pretend iPhone on my laptop so I don’t have to spend the $500 to get a real one!
It comes with a “forms” designer and lots of code examples. Pretty nice SDK for a phone, except for the fact that it’s 1.4 GB… Yeah… The Windows Mobile Compact Framework SDK I believe is around 25mb, granted, if you count the Visual Studio Install base, it brings it right back up to normal..
At any rate, one major major annoyance. I used to use Quicksilver for my keyboard application launching needs… it was fast, tightly integrated, and easily customizable… but with Leopard I switched over to using Spotlight again…
Well now, when I want to use Safari or Calculator or any app that is on the iPhone, the iPhone SDK documentation and references come up first… instead of the real app! BOO!! Guess I’ll have to customize the Spotlight indexing service not to search the SDK…
Ohh and btw, Aptana is a pretty interesting IDE… wish it weren’t backed by Eclipse, feels super heavy… Easy IDE for working on Rails, AIR (all flavors), and iPhone stuff…
Read the complete post at http://www.thoughtstoblog.com/articles/2008/4/1/iphone-sdk