iOS What Device For Development?

[PhoneyDeveloper]

Hi All,

I don't currently have a device for testing on and I'm thinking about getting an iPod touch for that purpose. I don't need another cell phone or a two year contract.

Do you develop on an iPod touch? Is 8G good enough or should I get a 16G device? The app I'm working on doesn't require the phone or gps or anything that I think might only be on the phone.

Comments?

Thanks,

 

[robbieduncan]

An 8Gb Touch will probably be fine. Unless you are developing massive apps you will probably only need a few Mbs on the device per app.

 

[kainjow]

The main thing to watch out for is timeouts on network activity. Make sure you test this (easiest way to simulate it is via a timer). I had a crash in my app which was specifically caused by a very long timeout in a download, and I only found this out by "testing" on EDGE.