I'm building an iPhone app on windows, but have a macbook air that I keep around so that I can build my .ipk when I need to.
My question is: how (if it's possible) do I make my macbook build remotely (either by calling a command through ssh or similar), all the files are being synced already by dropbox, so i'm not concerned about how to get the files back and forth, just how to make my mac build remotely.
Thanks everyone!
You can build your project using xcodebuild. Log through ssh, go to project catalog and just run xcodebuild. You may add some parameters if required.
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I have a Mac but for some complex reasons that is not worth explaining here, I will be not be able to install xCode. I have checked the tutorial here, where they provide two options. In both options, XCode is used. My question is: Is it possible to generate a build for iOS on a Mac without using XCode.
It is not possible to do this in Android Studio. If you don't have a machine with macOS (or are not able to use XCode in your case), you might be able to make a build using a macOS docker image.
You can find a macOS docker image (Docker-OSX) here (200k downloads). On this page, you can also find container images with XCode installed.
If you don't want to use the XCode app('s GUI) on your machine (or when using this Docker image), but you do have XCode (and Command Line Tools) installed - you can also make a build via the terminal using the xcodebuild command: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2339/_index.html
For more on xcodebuild, see this StackOverflow answer.
No, it's not.
What you can do though is use an external tool like appollo which will let you have access to a Mac build machine with XCode installed.
Then you can generate an IPA like this :
appollo build start --build-type ad-hoc
Here are some demo videos or Appollo's documentation
I wrote a Flutter app using IntelliJ on my Linux machine. I need to build the ipa file for iOS devices, and I do not have a Mac.
I plan on using a "Mac in the cloud" server to prepare the release build for the App Store. I have been mapping out all of the steps that I need to do to do the whole process, and I got to wondering: if I am opening my project folders on a server somewhere, do I have to configure the path to the Flutter SDK that I will have to download on to server machine?
I have looked at the Flutter.io documentation, but did not find an answer to this question.
Goal: to generate a release build for iOS on server machine from the project folders that I used on my Linux machine to make release build for Android.
Well, to answer my own question, IntelliJ seems to find the correct flutter path on its own somehow. It give me an error message after build command, but then continues using correct flutter path. I am pretty sure that I never told the program where to find flutter.
I have an iOS project cloned from repo into my jenkins account. Xcode is not yet installed. I know command line scripts to build an iOS project including targets/configurations/profiles etc. Certificate and provisioning profile is installed in jenkins account. I am wondering if there is a way to build and create ipa without installing Xcode in jankins account. Does apple provide any developer tools for building and creating IPA through command line only?
Advance thanks
Every building option for iOS apps requires Xcode, but apple does provide tools for building via CLI. A ton has changed in the most recent iOS OS upgrade and there are incredible tools out there for CI/CD app delivery. What you end up using should really depend on what you want to maintain over time and how advanced your system needs to be.
To get Builds working in Jenkins
Step 1 : Install Xcode on the Jenkins node that will be doing the builds. You wont be using the Xcode UI but you will need it installed, there is currently no way to build IPAs without Xcode.
Step 2: Choose your build tool
You could write your own build scipts and manage provisioning profiles on the machine. xcodebuild is the CLI tool you are looking for. If you end up going down this route make sure to use xcpretty or you will loose your mind with giant build logs.
Fastlane is an amazing toolset for building mobile apps, it might change your life. Check out these examples and how to get started.
Apple has an xcode build server that Jenkins could possibly talk to.
The first two in this list do a good job of managing provisioning profiles out of the box, and that can save you major headaches down the road if you need to scale
I've been building Android Phonegap apps locally on my Windows PC and using Phonegap Build to build IOS apps.
The design guys have a Mac that we're already using to publish the app in iTunes.
But even if Phonegap build is a great tool, there are many drawbacks : build time can sometimes be quite long, not all plugins are available, plugins submission seems sometimes quite long and not always successfull, building debugging a home-made plugin using Phonegap build seems just impossible.
For all those reasons I feel the need to build locally also IOS projects and maybe also develop native plugins.
So my idea would be to use ssh to connect to the Designer's Mac and use it to build.
Do other people process in that way? Would it work? Are there things I should be carefull with when installing the CLI, sdk and other tools?
For example I think it would be a good idea to install npm locally in my user I'll use for SSH.
Any ideas?
it is possible
First you need to instal phonegap on Designer's Mac, and enable ssh
Then in your system open terminal/cmd type
ssh usernameOfDesignerMac#ipaddress
then enter yes,
then enter password of that user. thats all now you can access Designer's mac,
cd cordovaProjectLocation
sudo cordova build ios/android
Preferably using Linux, Windows is also OK.
Something like openssh and zip?
If you can remotely shell into the Mac (ssh), then you should be able to build and sign your project from the command line. It may require some setup beforehand, but xcodebuild and xcrun should get you where you need to go. (This is the same kind of thing folks do to get automated continuous integration builds set up.)
Doesn't get you out of using Xcode or a Mac, but maybe gets you out of having to be physically sitting in front of that Mac to get work done.
Further reading:
Xcode “Build and Archive” from command line
xcodebuild man page
xcrun man page
I would use TeamViewer ( payed version) or other remote desktop software to connect tom office mac mini. Otherwise you will break up the signing license too, beside it is hard to configure the keychain.
It will be very hard to figure out after you have signed a build why it doesn't install at client's PC, because no error messages there.