Developing on a PC for iPhone

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Developing on a PC for iPhone

Post by abanowBUSTfGf » Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:55 am

My app runs on a tethered Android. Am I able to connect an iPhone and run the same
app?

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Re: Developing on a PC for iPhone

Post by Traxgeek » Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:21 am

Hi abanowBUSTfGf ,

As I understand it you'll need to build the 'Standalone' for iOS - Xcode, have your iOS device registered with apple Dev, connected to your PC/Mac and then 'deploy' - much as you would for the Android.

You'll obviously need Xcode running so will need a Mac or a Virtual machine running the Xcode on Windows - Once your app has been created in LC you should locate it in Finder/Explorer, then open Xcode, choose Organizer, drag the file (from Finder/Explorer) to your Device. Et Voila ! the app should be on your iOS device and ready to be run...

HTH

Regards.
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Re: Developing on a PC for iPhone

Post by gpb01 » Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:47 am

Traxgeek wrote:...
You'll obviously need Xcode running so will need a Mac or a Virtual machine running the Xcode on Windows - Once your app has been created in LC you should locate it in Finder/Explorer, then open Xcode, choose Organizer, drag the file (from Finder/Explorer) to your Device. Et Voila ! the app should be on your iOS device and ready to be run...
...
Emmm ... just to be clear ... this is ILLEGAL and in contrast with the Apple License ...

More ... OSX, XCode, etc. are often updated ... which creates a lot of problems with this solution !

If you are a serious iOS developer ... better to buy a little Mac Mini to compile and debug (run the simulator) ;)

Guglielmo

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Re: Developing on a PC for iPhone

Post by Traxgeek » Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:11 am

Oops - agreed...

Assumed that went without saying - just wanted to provide BOTH the options - with and without a Mac.

But you're absolutely right ! Apologies for not making that absolutely clear :oops:

Regards.

EDIT : to be completely fair, It's just simpler to develop on a Mac (I use a Mini) running DualBoot Win7 and Parallels too (to go the other way, Mac->PC which isn't illegal)!
I'm 'getting there'... just far too slowly !
Mac (Siera) and PC (Win7)
LiveCode 8.1.2 / 7.1.1

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