iOS dev account for community edition?

[sincipient820]

Just to clarify... If I'm using LC 6.0 to make iOS apps for my personal device (not for distribution in the app store) do I still need to get the apple developer account for 99$/year?... thanks

[FourthWorld]

My understanding is that iOS only allows apps to be installed which have been signed, and for that you'd need a dev account with them.

For all the things I like about iOS this is one reason why I tend to do early work on Android - so much simpler to deploy when the OS allows you to act as the owner of the device rather than just effectively "leasing" it from the manufacturer. In Android you can turn on the sideloading option (Settings->Security->Unknown Sources) and then you're free to simply copy your APK file to the device to run.