iPhone / iPod Touch SDK - The lord has spoken

As you probably know by now, Steve said the magic words this week. Yes, there will be an official Apple-sanctioned SDK for the iPhone (and the iPod Touch!), but that won’t be until february. We’ll probably get to see some highlights at Macworld 2008, but I doubt he will dive into details since it is consumer-oriented as opposed to the WWDC developer-oriented keynote. Anyhow, in the meantime, I got to jailbreak the heck out of my iTouch last week. I now have a variety of third party apps, which, for the most part, are open source (interestingly enough, all the projects are hosted on Google Code). I’ve set up the unofficial toolchain (ARM-compatible GCC producing Mach-O formatted binaries) and glanced at some of the source code. Unfortunately, up to now I haven’t found a single example of how gestures are implemented in their framework. The simplest gestures (like the scrollbar, togglebuttons and sliders) are all abstracted in UIKit’s components.

I have a few ideas:

• Compiling some auditing toolkit: nmap … (like a mobile Backtrack) and create some straight forward UIs for auditing networks.
• Hacking the 802.11 Stumbler code to port the locationning algorithm I wrote for iFIND (though, I doubt this would actually be any useful… it’s just for the thrill)

Obviously, this implies that I’ll have to learn Objective C and Cocoa-style programming along the way.