O’Reillly just published a book by Jonathan Zdziarski, the writer of NES.app for the iPhone and one of the premier iPhone hackers. It describes how to jailbreak and install BSD applications and program using the iPhone APIs. Interestingly, this book assumes that the SDK will be a completely different animal and separates this “open” hacking from officially sanctioned hacking. It looks like a great way to get some iPhone experience before the SDK drops, ensuring you get a space at what is looking to be a pretty crowded table.
Technically, the SDK is already out from Apple and it’s free. If you want to see your code running on your own iPhone than you can’t because Apple is limiting people that can actually get into the iPhone Developer program (accelerometer based apps suffer). Just curious, but what do you think the release of the Apple App Store will have on the jailbroken community?
that’s actually what i’m thinking about right now. I mean there could be two concurrent toolchains, the official one and the SDK one. i just wonder what the value would be aside from maybe figuring out how to allow programs to run in the background, ensuring chat apps don’t suck. If it gets to that point it will be interesting to watch the two camps fight it out.
I actually just bought this sold out book. It sounds like something that might be cool to know down the line.