That s unlikely (read: practically impossible). iPhone SDK and Xcode developer tools are designed to run on Mac OS X on Intel x86 processors. iPad s processor is a 1GHz ARM processor. It s a different architecture and is inadequate for running those tools effectively anyway. (This can change if Apple can and be willing to develop a version of said developer tools natively for iPhone OS with sufficient performance).

You can use a text editor on an iPad to write code but you are not likely to be able to compile, test, and debug it.

By the way, in case the device can be jailbroken, you d be able to run native gcc for iPhone OS to compile your app (as you can currently do with an iPhone/iPod touch too). You won t be able to use Apple s proprietary tools like Interface Builder but you d be able to compile Objective-C sources and test and debug your app.

There is no reason for Apple to port the SDK to the iPad. There would be way more effort than value in this project.

As for testing on the device, this will work the same was as it does today on the iPhone. You will install a debug App on the device and debug through the cable inside XCode.

No different for the iPad than for the iPhone in this regard.

-t

The jailbreak developer saurik, who created Cydia, has already ported gcc to jailbroken iPhones and I m sure it will be ported to jailbroken iPads.

Are you asking if you can run applications developed using the iPhone SDK on the iPad or whether you can run the SDK itself, i.e. Xcode and Interface Builder and develop on the iPad? The answer to the former is yes, to the latter (though Apple has not said this explicitly), you can assume the answer is no.