360iDev – The Speakers – Jay (Saurik) Freeman

If you were at the last 360|iDev in March, you’ll know we had a few sessions on Jailbraking, and that our pal Saurik even announced the Cydia store during his session.

Saurik is back, with a full day Hands-On training class onSunday! We’re really excited to have Saurik back with us, it’s important for developers to see all the aspects and possibilities in iPhone development, and jailbraking and non AppStore apps is a definite option.

Check out the description of Saurik’s class and see for yourself.

Will teach developers how to write extensions using the existing MobileSubstrate framework, as well as a soon-to-be-released runtime introspection and scripting language, both for purposes of tapping into the unofficial iPhone software market, as well as to provide people the means to understand how the existing applications perform their magic: by reaching your hands directly into their implementations. Will include a brief overview of the status the jailbroken software market, where many of these existing extensions can be found. With almost a quarter million dollars in revenues just from the 15 packages available in the Cydia Store (a small fraction of the overall jailbreak market), this area has proven itself to be a viable option for commercial development and sales.

All but one of the actual technologies I will be describing are applicable to non-jailbroken applications, but you would be limited to actually /changing/ the implementation of applications you have yourself written, although you’d be able to mess easily with things in UIKit (where a lot of the value to many users would be). In particular, the introspection framework that I am releasing is designed in such a way as to let you easily embed it into an App Store application.

It is definitely true that to get the most out of this that you can you will need to be willing to jailbreak your device (something I’d personally hope developers do anyway, in order to do more extensive testing of their application code, as well as to have better access to debugging).

This will be a great session for developers looking at alternatives to the Nazi, black box App store nightmare that Apple has created.

Of course Sunday pre-Conference training is completely free, included in the regular registration price… Wonder if other events that cost as much as 360|iDev, have perks like that? :) Register now to ensure you have a seat at the Premiere iPhone developer conference in the world!