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jonherries

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#61885 25-May-2010 16:14

Hi,

Thought there might be a few of you who do some iphone development. I am interested in doing something around a remote I got, the Griffin Navigate.

Apparently you can't get the app for this in NZ and they have no interest in making available according to the support guy I talked to.

I was wondering about whether I could reverse engineer their app? I have had a look at the iphone dev pages, but haven't yet signed up. More specifically I was wondering if accessory apis/functions appear when the accessory is connected, or whether I would need to do this blindly? Any thoughts?

On a side note presumably I would be allowed to make an app for an accessory even if I wasn't the accessory maker?

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#334725 25-May-2010 19:35

Not to sure on the accessory stuff, I know apple makes you jump through extra hoops to interact with accessories.

Can you not just create an itunes account in a country that supports it?

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#334735 25-May-2010 19:43

jonherries: On a side note presumably I would be allowed to make an app for an accessory even if I wasn't the accessory maker?

No.

Only the folks who built the device can do that, and you're basically stuffed if the company doesn't release it here. Apple certainly won't approve an application to go on the iTunes store to drive an accessory not made by you and for which software is available. And no, you can't just write it only for you - apps you write require the provisioning profile installed on the device, and they expire every 6 months so you have to renew your developer program membership just to run your own app.