MPoD update – first screenshots
MPoD, the iPhone/iPod Touch client for the MPD music player, is coming along well. Check out the first screenshots on the product page.
Posts tagged ‘iPhone SDK’
The iPhone SDK – why are people left out?
Last week Apple finally made the iPhone SDK available. Great, now I can turn my iPod Touch into a remote for the MPD music server that I’m running on my central Ubuntu server.
But hold on… I can’t install the SDK on my G4 Powerbook. What a bummer. In the meantime there are listings on the Internet on how you can use Pacifist to install the SDK on a PowerPC system. I tried that today, but it dropped everything in my root rather then creating a Developer folder, making it quite a mess. It also dropped stuff in my /usr and /Library folders, ouch. After cleaning up the mess I took a different route: I installed the SDK on my wifes iBook, then copied the entire Development folder over to my PowerPC. This works fine, and after downloading lipmpdclient, I had the list of artists on my server showing up in the Aspen emulator in less then 10 minutes.
So I can develop happily from here onwards, as long as I don’t want to actually install anything on my iPod Touch. To get onto the device you need to apply for the iPhone Developer Program. But initially it’s only open to developers from the US. What sort of policy is that? Does Apple see 1st class world-citizens and 2nd class world-citizens? I don’t care so much that I can’t distribute this software to others right now, but I’m not even able to put it on my own Touch. Don’t I have the right to mess with that thing? Weird.