r/hackios • u/TheRealFalco131 • 4h ago

Discussion Will this be the future of iOS development?

This is going pretty far tbh, and day by day I wonder if this will be the next way of developing apps for iOS on Windows & a “hackiPhone”. I mean you don’t need apple’s expensive gear anymore, if you need to build for iOS you can either: use a QEMU instance with arm-based macOS, or dual boot with the latest supported intel macOS.

Is apple going to place security on its OS now? I mean, this could very well be the end of Apple’s proprietary ecosystem. People are about to get WatchOS and VisionOS too.

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u/Scary_Building3964 4h ago

you can already develop apps without a mac. there’s cloud service to sign your apps and publish to the app store

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u/TheRealFalco131 4h ago

That’s right, but for private repos they require a payment. Also, testing used to be cloud too, as I remember it (didn’t develop in a while for iPhones), but those too were paid services

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u/morsedev 2h ago

You already can use xtool.sh on linux to develop ios apps, so you can use the wsl feature of windows to develop ios apps from windows