Starting the iPhone SDK installation
The following article shows the details of getting started with iPhone SDK:
Getting Started with iPhone SDK
After the iPhone SDK is downloaded (as discussed in the above article), double-click on the iPhone SDK to start the installation of iPhone SDK.
Figure 1. Starting the iPhone installation

Starting the installation of Xcode Tools and iPhone SDK
Xcode is used for developing programs for both Mac OS X and iPhone.
Figure 2. Welcome screen of iPhone SDK installation

The License Agreement
Figure 3. The Software License Agreement

iPhone SDK Agreement
Figure 4. The iPhone SDK Software License Agreement

Installing components of iPhone SDK
Figure 5. Components of iPhone SDK

By default, the following items are selected for installation:
- Developer Tools Essentials
- iPhone SDK
- System Tools
- UNIX Development Support
Developer Tools Essentials
These are the set of required tools to do iPhone / Mac development. This list of tools includes:
- Xcode
- Interface Builder
- Instruments
- Dashcode
- Quartz Composer
- GCC 4.0.1
- GCC 4.2.1
- LLVM-GCC 4.2.1
- GDB
- Mac OS X 10.4 (Universal) SDK
- Mac OS X 10.5
iPhone SDK
This selection installs the iPhone SDK related components.
- Tools
- Header Files
- Libraries
- Documentation
System Tools
This selection installs the System Tools.
Standard Installation
Figure 6. The standard installation of iPhone SDK

Installation takes a few minutes.
Figure 7. Installing iPhone SDK

Successful Installation
Figure 8. Successful installation of iPhone SDK

Installed Components of iPhone SDK
Xcode and the other Tools, SDKs, Libraries, etc. are installed into the Developer folder (by default). The Xcode tool can be dragged on to the Dock for ease of starting the application.
Figure 9. The installed components of iPhone SDK

Getting Started with iPhone SDK
The following article shows the details of getting started with iPhone SDK:
Getting Started with iPhone SDK