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I am absolutely new to KMM (Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile) and I have never build cross-platform applications before. But I have experience with Android development and Kotlin. I wanted to give a try to KMM because I think that multiplatform applications will be getting more and more popular in the future.
I set up the environment needed for KMM project, I used this tutorial for it. I updated to the latest version of Kotlin, installed KMM plugin in Android studio and got ready for the creating my first KMM project. Then I created a new project using this tutorial but I can't run my application on iOS because I can't see iOS app in the list of run configurations. I do not know how to resolve it. I have tried to restart, reinstall I have cleared my cache and tried to create another project but could not run iOS app.
I have built android applications before using Android studio and Kotlin and everything worked smooth.
Is there an error in KMM plugin?
As you can see on their website here, in order to build an iOS app you need a macOS host. So the short answer is that you cannot build an iOS app using KMM on Windows.
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I am new to developing mobile apps and wanted to try Flutter but I use Windows. Because Flutter doesn't support Windows yet I had the idea to use a virtual machine running Linux to install Flutter. Does this work?
Also in the Flutter setup it says this:
To develop Flutter apps for iOS, you need a Mac with Xcode 7.2 or newer.
Is there a way to develop iOS apps without having a Mac?
Yes, you can develop iOS apps with Linux (or Windows) using Android Studio or Visual Studio Code. The point of Flutter is that you have one code base and can deploy to both Android and iOS. So the development phase is no problem.
In the past you could only deploy iOS apps to the App Store if you had a Mac, but there are some more options now. See the following articles:
How to sign Flutter apps for iOS automatically without a Mac
Developing and debugging Flutter apps for iOS without a Mac
How to develop and distribute iOS apps without Mac with Flutter & Codemagic
Build an iOS app without a Mac or iPhone using Flutter
To test your app on the iOS simulator, though, it is still necessary to have a Mac. However, theoretically the app should have the same behavior for most things as on an Android device, so you wouldn't necessary need to test it using the iOS simulator. I would say long term you would probably want to consider getting a Mac, but it is certainly not necessary in the beginning.
Update: In a recent app I made, my tests passed in the Android emulator but crashed in the iOS simulator. It was a normal bug and nothing specific to iOS, but for some reason the Android simulator didn't crash. So for a production app, you really do need to test it on an iOS device/simulator.
As you point in your question:
To develop Flutter apps for iOS, you need a Mac with Xcode 7.2 or newer.
You can work around by using an external service (like Travis-ci or other) to build your code for iOS. However it's not usable as a developer workflow as that can take several minutes to get the artefact.
You should check out MacOS cloud solutions like MacInCloud. There are CI/CD solution that will support it (e.g. CircleCI and BitRise) however these are not suited for development.
Services like MacInCloud allow you to remote desktop into a Mac where you could conceivably use XCode remotely.
Windows is now partially supported in the way you can edit and publish for Android but you still can't create for IOS where a mac is required (XCode).
More informations https://flutter.io/setup-windows
You can use tools like Appollo to do just that directly from Windows or Linux. Appollo is a python CLI tool.
To install Appollo run pip install appollo, then setup your developer account with Appollo (https://appollo.readthedocs.io/en/master/tutorial/2_configure_app_store_connect.html) once this is done you can start building your app with appollo build start
You can check out a few example videos here : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBNRrJd4UP0QQRoYF4JOEmA
My unity application is developed for iOS devices, but for some reason at this moment I have only Windows PC.
I searched around and found similar information, but not clear for what I want.
My query is
I will do development of the game in Windows PC using C#.
Then will build and deploy to iOS device using MAC.
Is that possible? I like to make sure.
I have made several Unity3D projects for iOS using a Windows.
When installing Unity, don't forget to check "iOS deployment" and your Unity (on Windows) will be able to build an Xcode project.
Then, just transfer this Xcode project on a Mac with Xcode installed and you will be able to compile the project in order to be run on your iOS device.
Note : I just have to run chmod 777 MapFileParser.sh on the Mac folder containing the Xcode project before compiling with Xcode.
You can always use Unity Cloud to build you games. Their server will build it either from your own repo (git, svn, etc) or you can use their Collaborate feature by going into the unity editor -> services -> collaborate on.
Before getting to use Unity Cloud to build for iOS, you will need to generate your certificates just as you do when building using XCode. On the config page you can choose the version of unity you want the build to use, the version of xcode and if you want Unity to build your game on every push ( auto-build).
As far as I know when building for ios the ipa will have a ridiculous size. If you encounter this problem please refer to the following link: how to disable bitecode
Even though Unity allows us to use their system to build for any platform, in order to upload your *.ipa to app store you will need to do it through application loader.
It has been 2 days that my Xamarin project is building and building. I have updated the Android Support Repositories from my SDK Manager. But when I added Android Support Libraries NuGets to my project, It is building and putting downloading stuff in C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Xamarin
Please can someone help me how can I stop this build process and starting developing my app?
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we want to use the new Xcode6 and iOS8 SDK to build our mda apps. I installed the sdk on the mac, but i cannot build at the moment using the new sdk, because it seems like the new devices and emulators are not displayed in Visual Studio. It is also not possible to choose an old device, because it says that it cannot find the emulator I've specified (I think they renamed the emulator devices). I switched back now to Xcode 5.1.1, but we would really want to use the new sdk to get the new features.
Do you have any plans when we can use the new Xcode?
Thanks
There was an update made today to vs-mda-remote which should add in support for XCode6. Please make sure you get the latest version by running sudo npm install -g vs-mda-remote --user=$USER from your machine. This should get your build to pass. If you run into further issues, please email vscordovatools#microsoft.com to discuss further.
There was a plugins release for September recently. If any of your current plugins seem to be flaky, you may want to consider updating them manually by editing the config.xml file.
I've installed phonegap, and got the basic hello world new project app open in eclipse. I have deployed it to a android emulator. I want to deploy the same app to my IOS emulator. I can't find any instructions anywhere of how to do this. Does anyone know how?
You have to do this in Xcode on Mac, or in a virtual machine with Mac OS installed.
Also, cordova.js is different for Android and iOS platforms - keep this in mind, as the codebase will differ in some ways for these platforms.
Here is the complete guide about building Phonegap apps for iOS:
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/edge/guide_platforms_ios_index.md.html#iOS%20Platform%20Guide
If you have iOS Dev license you can build it through PhoneGap Build.
The advantage is that you don't have to have a Mac or even a virtual machine with Mac installed, so that you can do everything through a web interface, what's fantastic!
The only exception is if you have something native in Xcode to deploy along with your application, otherwise if it's only HTML/Javascript and so on, then it's perfect for you.
http://build.phonegap.com
Hope it helps!