Apple iOS SDK Reviews

I use the solution for music, emails, and work.

The best thing about the product is that it provides seamless integration. I can use my Microsoft product on my iPhone, so it's good for work and personal use. I can use it across devices since it's synced up. AirDrop and iCloud are the most valuable features of the solution. The solution is easy to use.

We mainly use this product to develop iOS applications with the Xcode.

This solution is a really easy and straightforward to use for development, and provides a lot of opportunities to test applications on a simulator before being released.

- A large number of tutorials, websites, etc. are available on the web for developing based on iOS SDK (XCode) - Applications developed through XCode are highly secure and stable - Out of the box support for OpenGLES 2.0 makes it very easy for game developers - One of the differentiating features is that it allows development of multi touch supported apps - iOS SDK is Open source and available for developers to delve deeper into the code - Can be used for developing applications for iPhone, iPad, Mac etc

- You need a Mac box for running the SDK - XCode cannot be run on any platform other than Mac - All app development is done using the Objective-C language, which is very different from standard C and C++ and has an initial steep learning curve - iOS app developers are required to pay an annual fee of around $99, unlike other mobile app platforms like Android - Does not support many popular 3rd party libraries - Testing the app developed in XCode is not very straightforward, unlike Android SDK on Eclipse

* Well documented SDK. * Highly secure, since all apps run sandboxed. * Applications are highly stable. * Abundance of resources and tutorials are available on the internet. * Lets you access iOS core services, core services being networking and threading. * Integrated support OpenGL ES 2.0 (OpenGL framework is used in games on iphone, ipad and ipod touch). * Media support, iOS offers great flexibility for performing operations on audio, video and picture. * Multi-touch support. Lots of in built touch gesture recognizers, which a programmer can use to make an app quite impressive. * Xcode provides instruments that give you a better insight of your code, especially about memory management, if you are using MRC(Manual Refrence Counting). * ARC (Automatic Reference Counting), introduced in iOS 5, is a great feature for programmers who are sloppy with memory management concepts. * Usage of other languages like c. iOS uses objective c basically, but you can also use your existing c code within your iOS prgram with no extra effort. The compiler changes that c code into objective c code while compiling. * GPU is available so that applications not built with OpenGL can still make the app rendering process faster. * Single application for all the 3 device types, by making a universal application (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad). * iOS SDK is also open source licensed under MIT.

* A Mac is required for developing. Development is strictly restricted to Mac. * Flash or shockwave videos do not run on this platform. * ARC is not helpful in scenarios where you need control over the memory. * Restricted to Apple devices. * Subscription to developer program is yearly.

The SDK contains the iPhone simulator, a program used to emulate the look and feel of the iPhone developer's desk. - The SDK is very stable. - easy to use and it can help you with the function of tying some of the codes of a graphic interface together. - you can develop it for iphone and itouch.

- Only mac users can develop applications and games for iphone, and for ipod touch - programming with Objective-c is not preferable for some developers - android sdk accepts programming in C and C++, which is available and is very very easy for some developers - you have to pay each year for an Apple license

The iOS SDK is well documented, and generally allows for relatively easy creation of stable applications within the iOS ecosystem. Compatibility across devices is ensured because there is no fragmentation in the iOS ecosystem, except for between iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch apps, but there are specific API's in place that allow for Universal apps that work across all devices and are formatted specifically for each device.

My major con for this is that it's Mac specific; if you don't own an Apple computer, you cant (legally) develop for iOS, which is incredibly small minded of Apple. Also, Objective C would not have been my first choice of a programming language if it had not been forced on me by Apple, I prefer C or C++ in comparison. Even Visual Basic is easier to code in.

With the popularity of iOS apps, vast documentation resources and tutorials are available on the Internet The apps developed using iOS SDK are known to be highly stable Apps built on iOS SDK run in sandboxes, resulting in high application security

Development in Objective-C, which has a smaller developer user base as compared to Java and C/C++ Built on a closed source operating system, so no flexibility to modify and extend the SDK Only deployable on Apple mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod) Using non-standard functions and libraries with iOS SDK is not permitted