I'm not an expert in IOS development. We do some of those where I work but I never work on one except to see how it works for fun.

I think you'll need a mac at least to deploy your application on the app store.

I know you can develop your application with tools like phone gap. With this, you can code your app and "create" an app for android, iphone, automagically. But the result won't be as native as with XCode...

Good luck

There is no Tool or Development environment available to develop iOS and Mac Application. You must have Mac OS and Mac machine to develop them.

I was in the exact same position as you when I was 19... couldn't afford a mac and there's literally no alternatives on windows. I ended up building a cheap ass hackintosh, but even then, to program for newer devices you need an up to date ish version of xcode which only runs on an up to date ish flavour of OSX.

In the end, it just isn't worth trying to find a work around. Either save up for a mac mini, or make android apps instead.

Since no one is providing a helpful answer, I made an account to do so:

Xamarin - Build cross-platform iOS, Android, Mac and Windows apps with C# and .NET - IDE that will let you make ios/android apps using C# in windows or osx. Free for educational use. It's not objective C, but from what little objective C I have looked at, I think that might be a good thing.

Xamarin 2.0 reviewed: iOS development comes to Visual Studio | Ars Technica

Phonegap has been mentioned, but there is also appcelerator: Titanium SDK | Mobile App Development | Appcelerator Inc.

EDIT: If you just want to LEARN objective C without a mac, codeschool.com has a simulator via some mac servers: http://www.codeschool.com/paths/ios

If you want to rent a server like codeschool does, there is something like: http://www.macincloud.com/
According to the website, you can "Develop Apps on Your PC or Older Mac!"

To be honest, if you take objective c / xcode out of your requirements, it frees you up from having to rent a server or pursue iffy solutions like VMing. Or spend money. Also, if you do end up renting a server or otherwise acquiring a mac, there is http://www.rubymotion.com/ which allows you to write native applications in ruby instead of objective c, which is definitely what I would do instead of investing so much time in objective c.

You could also use software like Construct 2 and build your app/game in HTML5. Deploy it as HTML5 or wrap it with CocoonJS or Appmobi. They have have the ability to export to Blackberry 10, Windows Exe, Tizen, Chrome store, and more.

Construct is extremely easy to use. I currently have 4 games on the droid and ios stores.

You can't build an app for iphone without a mac, but with titanium you can create a js/html based app for android and titanium can build that code into iphone as well, just ask your buddy to borrow his mac until the build. (Titanium will need btw the Xcode installed on the mac)

Get a secondhand macmini (intel processor). Use that. Or, use an online app building service like phonegap build or Seattle Cloud.

There are many solutions as some suggested buy a second hand Mac, still this will charge you high. The other options are you can run an windows platform application to develop iOS apps, like Flash CS5.5, Airplay SDK, Unity 3D etc. Try any of those, and they are free to use.

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If you would like to save a lot of money from buying a Mac, take my advice.

First you need a considerably strong computer, something with about 8 GB of RAM and an intel i7 processor. The reason why I mention intel i7 is because I believe that intel i7 support VT (Virtualization Technology).

With that stated, you can essentially, you guessed it, virtualize Mac OS X to run on your computer. You don't have to reformat your computer in anyway or repartition it.

Virtualization will also save up a tremendous amount of space as it will create a file which is a virtual hard drive for your Mac OS X system and has a large compression rate. So a 250 GB hard drive filled up with about 50 GB worth of data may be around only 7 GB on your actual computer (host computer).

Second, you need a fully licensed copy of VMWare. Google it and discover what options you have. VMWare is by far my favorite virtualization technology program. It's so professional and well coded. VMware is worth every penny.

Lastly, you need a fully licensed copy of Mac OS X of your desired version, like Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion. Get the DVD and you can have VMware install a new virtual machine, insert the DVD in your computer, and it installs it!

And here is where the VT Technology kicks in from your processor.
VT Technology in a nutshell, lets you effectively use the most of your i7 Quad core processor and RAM in your virtual machine, so performance is never sacrificed. The only component that is not utilized on your host machine is your graphics card. There might be some ways to utilize it but I don't think it will serve much purpose for your designated task, which is iOS development.

Reply/PM if you have any questions, hope I've helped!

Hi,
Thanks for the very detailed answers!
Unfortunately it's no longer relevant, at least not for me.

Dvir

The iOS SDK is only available with Xcode, which is only available to use on a Mac. So while you can certainly compile Objective-C with gcc on other platforms, you won't be able to compile and link code that uses any iOS SDK APIs on anything but a Mac.

You can develop iPhone apps with cross platform tools and technologies like using PhoneGap, Appcelerator Titanium, Adobe Air without having a mac system.