Have a great idea for a jailbreak tweak? It might soon become a little easier to develop it as ModMyI reports that a developer is planning to release a tool called iOSOpenDev, which "sets up user environment, Xcode, and iOS SDK for 'open' development" and "provides Xcode templates for creating jailbreak apps".
ModMyI reports:
A developer named Spencer James is nearing release of his project iOSOpenDev, which "sets up user environment, Xcode, and iOS SDK for 'open' development." The project will come with Xcode templates for creating common types of jailbreak tweaks, including Activator listeners, command line tools, dynamic libraries, Notification Center widgets, SBSettings toggles, and Mobile Substrate tweaks. It will even build .deb files of the completed projects for when a developer wants to submit to Cydia for publication (although community repo managers all pull apart .deb's for security anyway, to understand the packages contents before publication).
ModMyI's Kyle Mathews goes on to explain the significance of a tool like iOSOpenDev:
Many of the developers who've been creating jailbroken apps do not use Xcode, Apple's iOS (and Mac) development suite of tools, to create their packages. For many new developers, or folks who have used Xcode extensively in developing AppStore apps but would like to create tweaks for the jailbreak world as well, finding documentation and learning how to prepare packages for Cydia distribution can be challenging. [..]
[..] A project like this is significant, as it allows many new developers to easily enter the jailbreak development world; hopefully creating an even healthier jailbreak app landscape in addition to offering yet another easy tool for creation of jailbreak tweaks.
You can check out the demo of iOSOpenDev Xcode project template that builds an SBSettings Toggle and its Debian package (for Cydia submission):
It will be interesting to see if the iOSOpenDev app will accelerate the release of jailbreak tweaks and apps.
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[iOSOpenDev via ModMyI]
Nice.