Can I develop my own objective-C Framework for Cocoa Touch Applications?

Question

Is it possible to create an own obj-C Cocoa Touch framework which can be used by other developers? And furthermore can you protect this framework?

Answer 1

Yes you can create frameworks for use with Cocoa Touch.

However there are these caveats:

1. has to be a statically linked libary, no dynamic loading (dyld) for us
2. should be a combined (lipo) library for i386 (simulator), arm6 and arm7
3. you need to hack a bundle project into a framework
4. you should embed (small and few) images into the library so that the developer does not have to mess around with resources but just drags/drops it into his project
5. ... or if you have large and many images build a bundle with these

I have guides for these things on my site.

1+2 = http://www.drobnik.com/touch/2010/04/universal-static-libraries/

The other links you have to google because this site does not let me post more than one URL.