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Re: Development for iPod?



Well, you can create software for and run software on the iPod, as the iPod Linux project (http://www.ipodlinux.org) demonstrates. Not only have these folks replaced the ordinary iPod operating system with a special version of Linux. No, they also manage to run games like Doom under Linux on the iPod. ;-)

Like this stuff or not (well, I don't need it, my iPods really great the way it is!), but it shows that in theory you can create your own stuff to run on the iPod. So you could - under iPod Linux (which, of course, also features the ability to playback music) - write some software that announces each song as it starts to play or something similar. What you cannot do, however, is modify the original iPod operating system as source code for it isn't pubically available.

Knowing these details, the corrent answer to the question is: Building custom software for the iPod? Possible! Modify the original iPod software? Impossible.

Greetings,
Nils


Luca Ciciriello schrieb:
Sorry, but after a very long search, I have found nothing about an Apple support to develope software on iPod. There is no Apple iPod SDK, and I've no idea how to modify or add software on iPod. I don't know how to use Xcode to build an applicatio able to run on iPod OS and HW.

Sorry.

Luca


From: Robin Lake <email@hidden>
To: XCode Users <email@hidden>
Subject: Development for iPod?
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 06:04:35 -0500

Searching the Apple Web site, I have found nothing about an iPod SDK nor developing code to execute on an iPod.

The problem is straightforward. The technical support center at the Cleveland Society for the Blind would like to have the iPod be able to annuciate the song/performer identification. The thought is to recompile the iPod operating system or to add some small hardware device that would enable a visually impaired person to know what was playing and to select songs.

Is XCode the right tool to approach this opportunity?

Thanks,
Rob Lake

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