First step to Ipad App development is all about hacking

As a group of unfunded student, we got to hack a lot of stuff in order to develop Ipad app:

Jailbreak my iPad.

The following instructions helped me jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 iPad using GreenPois0n. http://goo.gl/16uRb

After that, I installed a lot of Apps to experience how iOS-world apps interact with users.

 

Install MacOS (Hackintosh) as guest into VirtualBox on my x86 PC.

I almost follows this blog http://goo.gl/SD0f to install MacOS in my VirtualBox (VB). Here I complement some key notes:

1. Uncheck EFI enabler in VB.

2. If your PC is x64, please boot the virtual machine by legacempire_efi1085.iso instead of empire_efi1085.iso.

3. Update to 10.6.4 as soon as snow leopard finished installation.

4. Install myHack which is in the legacempire_efi1085.iso, in order to boot this virtual machine by Chameleon boot loader.

5. Adjust screen resolution, you should insert these two lines:

 

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1680x1050x32</string>

to both /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist and /Extras/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

Set up iOS development environment.

After upgrading my Apple ID to developer, download iOS SDK, and install it on my virtual MacOS, I follows “Your First iOS Application” http://goo.gl/bDKu to enjoy my today’s achievement.

 

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It took me 8 hours to deal with the hacking activities above. However, the member of our team is fortune because all they should do is only to copy my disk image and virtualbox configuration to their own PCs. ^_^

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Authors: Botao Hu