Xcode on windows for ios development [duplicate] - iphone

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How can I develop for iPhone using a Windows development machine?
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Is there a way to develop ios applications in windows?
How can i setup Xcode on Windows?


You can do this using VMWare on windows but for that you need to have Windows machine with good configuration.
But its having following drawback
1 You cant use latest MAC version
2 Its not possible to build app on device
3 and finally its very slow.
Correct me if i'm wrong.


This following information is taken from the following answer by mipadi written a few years ago. It is still relevant now:
"Xcode is written in Objective-C and takes advantage of a number of
OS X frameworks, so porting it to Windows would require porting all
the frameworks on which Xcode relies..
Also, Xcode also uses a number of programming tools that would have to
be ported to Windows as well (although some of them already are).
There are multiple reasons why X-Code isn't readily available on
Windows:
Most development of Objective-C frameworks takes place on OS X, and
a lot of the frameworks aren't open-source and thus can't be ported
to Windows (they'd have to be rewritten).
There are some open-source frameworks that could be used on Windows
-- for example, OS X's AppKit and Foundation frameworks are (mostly) available as part of the GNUstep project -- but these
frameworks
aren't widely used or supported on Windows, and sometimes lack
capabilities found in their OS X counterparts."
It is also possible to use xCode on Windows via. a Virtual Machine; however, the result will not be what you want. It will be slow, and as you won't have access to many of the important frameworks, iOS development will be out of the question.
If you just want to program Objective-C on Windows as a means of learning the language, I advise downloading Codeblocks - see this documentation in regard to configuring the Objective C Compiler on it.


You can't use XCode on Windows. I tried a few months ago for 2-3 days to make it work on windows and i finally bought a mac.


Windows is not a suported platform for Apple, but some people seems to have found a workaround:
http://ipodtoucher55.blogspot.com.es/2010/12/installing-ios-sdk-and-xcode-on-windows.html


I suppose only virtualising Mac on windows pc is the way or get a Hacintosh.

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swift for windows platform and linux platform development

As I known Cocotron GNUStep are the objectivec sdk for windows and linux.
Just wonder if apple's new language Swift can work with Cocotron GNUStep on windows and linux.
Your comment welcome

No. Currently Apple distributes Swift as part of Xcode6 betas, which only work on OS X. There are hints that Swift will be open sourced when it is finished, at which point it is up to the community to port it to different platforms. No doubt that will happen.

Apple open-sourced Swift earlier this year and has recently announced a Linux port (64-bit only). However it says that one needs to build an app using Xcode on OSX if you want to submit it to the App Store.

How to install XCODE in windows 7 platform? [duplicate]

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Can you tell me how to install Xcode in windows 7 .... Or there is any other way to develop Iphone app on windows 7 ???

X-code is primarily made for OS-X or iPhone development on Mac systems. Versions for Windows are not available. However this might help!
There is no way to get Xcode on Windows; however you can use a different SDK like Corona instead although it will not use Objective-C (I believe it uses Lua). I have however heard that it is horrible to use.
Source: classroomm.com

Do you need Mac OS X to develop iPhone apps?

I was reading some sort of article stating you need Mac OS X to develop iPhone apps.
Is there really such a restriction?
Can't you just download the SDK (and the iOS developer program) IDE to Windows?

Yes, you do need Mac OS X for that. Xcode (SDK) will only work on Mac OS X.
However, if the legal part for you is not really important you can install Mac OS X on your normal PC. Just google "Hackintosh".

You don't need an actual Mac, just Mac OSX. If you don't feel like buying a mac than you can get a hold of the image of Mac OSX and install it onto your PC using Virtual Machine software. I use VMWare to run MacOSX from my Windows 7 x64 machine. VM's are a great way to go, the driers can take a bit to setup, but once everything is working it's perfect. VM's even support ethernet so from within the VM you can browse the web, download mac apps. Install things like XCode or GameSalad. I suggest researching how to use Virtual Machines.

One near-solution is to run OS X in a Virtual Machine on a Windows platform.
You're then developing on XCode on OS X, in a VM on Windows.
This way, you don't have to buy a Mac, or dedicate the hardware to a "Hackintosh".
Of course, this may not be legal by the license terms; I'm only speaking about the technical possibility.

You absolutely need Intel Macintosh hardware to develop iOS apps. The iOS SDK requires Xcode and Xcode only runs on Macintosh machines. I think that any Intel Mac will work, but with how fast things are changing a newer machine will get you longer time before you are forced to upgrade the machine.

Nope, you need an Intel-based Mac to develop apps for iOS. There is no iOS SDK for Windows.
That being said, there might be a way to use something like PhoneGap to develop your app "elsewhere" and then create a suitable package for iOS as well as other mobile platform. I am not familiar enough with PhoneGap and similar tools to know about this angle with any more certainty though.

You can't, there is no iOS SDK for Windows, it only has a Mac version. However, there are various emulators for Mac out there that you can try to install onto Windows. I've tried this before and it did work, however the performance was really poor. If you really wanted to do iOS development. I would strongly suggest you to actually purchase a Mac.

One year later...
I am not familiar with the prerequisites for developing native iOS apps, but wanted to add the possibility of creating a hybrid mobile application. Usually even then one needs the native tools and SDKs for building the wrapper application. But PhoneGap provide a cloud-based build service, which seems to do the job:
"What about developer accounts and SDKs? Do I need to set those up
before starting with PhoneGap Build?
No! But you might want to install some of the SDK emulators if you
don’t own a particular device that you want to test a build for."
Source: PhoneGap Build service
I have not tested the service myself. Just wanted to give an additional path to consider.

To be clear for iPhone apps development required Mac Computers. Xcode and iOS SDK to lead through the app development.Objective-C is the programming language which is most required for iOS app development to build apps. And to be frank, there is a difference between iOS and OS X. iOS and OS X share more framework. So porting app works from OS X to iOS is possible with a little work. If you are a cocoa developer you would be adapt to these frameworks easier.
Check for more information: developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Miscellaneous/Conceptual/iPhoneOSTechOverview/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007898

You can just install MacOS X on windows platform with the help of VMWare which you can use both of operating systems simultaneously side by side.
If you try develop iOS app with cordova like tools, you can simply build with the required SDK and compile it as iOS app then test it on your iPhone or any virtual emulators.

So this is an old question but also the first to appear for me in Google and I finally found a legal way. In 2020 you can go with MacInCloud, costs one dollar an hour for a basic plan. You can code everything elsewhere and then just use the cloud service to deploy the final steps in Xcode. Don't know about installing on your own ipad for testing, haven't gotten there yet.

Yes, you´re gonna need a MacBook or alike to develop for iOS. In my opinion, one of the biggest problems of developing apps for iOS is that you regularly have to buy a new MacBook (or another Mac based technology computer), since over time the most current version available of xCode for your already recently outdated OS X becomes incompatible with the newest iOS.

May I do development of iPhone using VMWare on XP? [duplicate]

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I am looking for some environment where I can develop an iPhone application. But my budget does not allow me to invest on mac machine. So can I do it on my Intel system using VMWare?

Follow the steps to install OS X in VMWare:
Download VMWare here.
Purchase a fully-licensed copy of Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Extract the zip file (you will have a folder).
Install VMWare and locate .vmx file(in above extracted folder) when you go to open option in VMWare.
Hope this helps.

If you run into trouble with VMWare, another common alternative people will do is to buy used Mac hardware to develop on. You can get a four year old Mac/Macbook and throw some more ram into it and get a few more years out of it.
There is no real need to buy brand new hardware just to develop for iOS on. If you are just running XCode, an older machine will do just fine. It won't be a speed queen for compiling, but it will get you what you need.
Check Craigslist/eBay for some used Mac's and save yourself a ton of cash (You may even have some friends that have upgraded to newer Macs and have their old laptops laying around).
It is also a great way to get iOS devices to do testing on.

iphone environment setup for windows [duplicate]

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I need to develop an iPhone application. I have Windows XP operating system. How can I configure iOS development environment in Windows XP?

You can't. iPhone development requires XCode, which only runs on Mac OS X.

On windows you could try to build native application using Web technologies, and software like http://appcelerator.com/ . You're using one of preferable web-languages (PHP, Ruby, etc.) and it will be converted to ObjectiveC.

On Windows you can't do that. But you can maybe do it on your pc. You could try to install a Mac OS on your PC. For that consultate http://osx86.thefreesuite.com/ or http://www.hackint0sh.org/. However this is not rellay easy and you main have some disadvantages, like not fully working XCode and so on. Additionally its not very easy to install.
You could also search in the Internet for a Mac OS image which can be virtualized on PCs (e.g. by using VMWare).
Note: this is not fully legal as far as I know.

There is no chance to develop an iPhone application on the windows...
and also you can't do it on other than mac pc(you must have iMac,Mac mini,or Mac book)
you can install a Mac OS on general non mac pc.
but you can't install iPhone SDK successfully on that system...
So there is no chance to develop iPhone Application on the Windows as wel as non-Mac machine...strong text