As my hackintosh laptop is still in Huddersfield, I have been looking into alternatives to  XCode on the Mac for iPhone development.

As a proud owner of a Jailbreak’ed iPhone 3gs, I have the ability to execute custom binaries compiled with the iPhone Open Toolchain. The Open Toolchain is basically a set of tools to build iPhone apps without using XCode. After a few hours of tinkering around, I have the Open Toolchain compiled and working in Cygwin on windows, with the ability to compile and deploy binaries to my iPhone across wifi. Yay!

Using the Open Toolchain I have been prototyping some UI ideas for the iPhone fitting tool. Next on the list of tasks is to parse the CCP Eve data exports into an SQLite database, for access on the iPhone, and to write some basic logic to get the ship categories and item types showing up in the app… then I can worry about writing the rest of the logic to power an actual ship fitter app.