iPad development without a mac

Question

I am interested in developing an app for my new iPad purely for my own use. (well to start with at least)

• Is there a way to develop an app without a mac?

Answer 1

You do not technically need a Mac to develop an app, unless you are serious about it. There are couple of solutions available to you for developing mac-less.

First, there are some services that port your HTML5 web apps into an iOS app, so you only need to write your code HTML5.

Second, if you dont want to buy a Mac, you can instead buy Snow Leopard or Lion, and build your own "hackintosh" (a windows computer hacked to run off the mac operating system).

Finally, you cannot make your app available for purchase in the App Store unless you are a paid developer. However, you could publish online as an HTML5 web application, or you could publish your app in a third-party app developer market (however you could only intall that app if you jailbreak your iPad).