BleepnGames Development Blog

I hit my first (feels like major) snag today.  I got pretty far along with doing all the crazy setup hoop jumping that’s required before you can test apps on an iPhone: setup the Development Certificate, added my iPhone’s UDID to the Devices, and created an App ID.

I followed the instructions in this PDF for the most part: iPhone Developer Program Users Guide (warning, 7.2MB file)

BUT the snag came when I got to the “Installing iPhone OS” part:  ”To run your code on an Apple device, you will need to install iPhone OS onto each development device and “restore” each device to a development state.” Yikes!

I’m still looking into this bit and hoping that maybe there’s a simpler way to setup my phone for development without having to go thru all that hassle.  We’ll see.

The real pain with having to restore, is that my iPhone is synched with the music and stuff on my PC, and having to restore it using the Mac means I’ll have to move all my media over to it.  Maybe I should just buy a Touch for development use?!  heh nah…