I want to start learning how to develop apps for the iPhone and the ipad but I don't want to shell out $1000+ for the latest mac. I was wondering what is the lowest mac os required for development - snow leopard? Are there any major reasons why you should have a mac running the latest os for development?
iOS5 requires Xcode4 which requires Mac OS 10.7
You're going to want to have the latest OS. You'll need the latest OS to install future iOS SDK's. Plus, with the Mac Dev program the OS is free anyway (Assuming you plan to develop for the Mac as well). Otherwise, Lion is only $29.
For the computer, if you really want to spend as possible, I'd recommend going with a Mac Mini which is $599. You'll need a monitor, but if you already have one at home, you can just buy the Thunderbolt to VGA adapter to hook it up to an existing VGA monitor.
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Are there ways to develop IOS applications in Windows?
I am thinking of going with IONIC framework because I need to build both Android and IOS Apps. If necessary, OS X will be installed on virtualbox but not sure whether it is a good idea.
Could anyone give advice? Thank you. :)
I have researched enough and received feedback from others that to implement IOS Apps using IONIC, MAC is essential.
Virtual OS is also possible but by my own experience (installed few times with different version of OS) and hearing from others, it is NOT recommended due to its stability.
OS X on virtual machine was very laggy and OS behaved faulty so I had to reboot the OS repeatedly.
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Is there any ide for develop iphone app on windows computer ?
I want to start to develop a i phone app on windows xp.
But i do not have mac book. I want to develop it on my windows computer, is there any application which will help me to do this ?
To develop iOS app you need mac OS X for sure, now you can have an apple machine or you can install Mac OS in non apple machine using VM, for that you can use virtual box installed in windows and then install Mac OS X on VM, there is no other way.
you can install Hackintosh in your windows to develop iphone app
You can use any one of the available tools for cross platform development, but I seriously advise against that. You should go native - the result will be much better.
Assuming you choose to go native (which, again, I highly recommend), and decide to develop your app specifically for iOS devices, you have to do this on a mac. The reason you don't want to mess with hackintosh and its counterparts (regardless of their running slowly, hard to maintain, etc) is that if you develop an app not on a mac device, and Apple finds out, you're in big trouble and will probably end up banned from the App Store. Assuming your app is built with the goal of ending up as a successful one, this is a chance that you shouldn't be willing to take.
Can anyone provide information about utility regarding the IOS device (iPhone 6 OS 8.1) screen show on Mac OS 10.9.5 machine for presentation purpose.
I came across through my research , MAC OS 10.10 Yosemite with Quick Time Player with IOS 8 , can able to show screen on Mac machine. This is unique machine in OS 10.10 ,
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My Appium configuration and suite setup in OS 10.9.5 , So I wanted to show IOS Device execution during presentation remotely.
I appreciate your support / thoughts in this with regards to OS 10.9.5
Try using Reflector 2 by Air Squirrels.
http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/
It costs $15, and allows you to connect from the iPhone device to your Mac via AirPlay.
At least with my setup, there was latency and animations looked choppy. Which is why I usually go with a lightning VGA adapter for projectors, or the lightning cable + Quicktime to sling the screen to a laptop. But with your setup, something like Reflector2 might be the way to go.
I'm using Delphi XE7 for developing mobile application. And some how, I have learnt how to create and test the Android mobile application using Delphi XE7 and for developing and testing Android application, just one Android mobile is enough. And I need to know the hardware requirements for developing and testing iOs mobile applications. And currently I'm having Windows 64 bit Os. Is it possible to develop and test, if I'm having Mac Os which is Virtual Os and iPhone device in my hand. And in the Virtual OS, I need to install Xcode and the required packages. Please confirm me once should I need compulsory MAC book for developing iOs mobile application using Delphi XE7.?
Please provide me the solution.
In addition to your development PC, you need the following to develop multi-device applications for iOS:
A Mac running OS X
An iOS device, connected to your Mac by USB cable
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE7/en/IOS_Mobile_Application_Development
The Mac OS X is bound to the Apple hardware. The only way to make OS X run in a virtual machine is to hack it. There are several solutions available e.g. here and here.
I am however sure that you will end up being frustrated about spending too much time on tweaking Delphi and the hacked OS X - even with Apple hardware there can be plenty of frustrations! For example there are updates to Xcode all the time and some of them breaks things. If you also have to tweak OS X every time you need to update, you would wish you bought the hardware.
I can recommend buying a Mac Mini ($499), it is the cheapest way to get a Mac. To minimize cost, you can simply connect it to the same monitor as your windows computer and just switch input on the monitor when you are working on the Mac. I have done that and it works very well.
Hi i started blackberry application development for 5.0 operating system.I just want to ask whether these apps would also run on operating system 6.0 as i heard that blackberry is forward compatible.
If you develop for BB os 5.0 it will work on os5.0 upwards, which are os 5.0,os6.0 , os7.0 etc. It will not work in pre os5.0 which are like os 4.5 ,os 4.6 etc