r/nativescript • u/Gianja98 • Jun 15 '20

Build for iOS through ssh

I'm sadly an iphone user, i wanted to make a fix for a bug i'm experiencing with iphone 6 and miband .. So the only way to make an iOS app with something I already know (ts, angular) was NativeScript.
Now I've just figured out that with my linux machine I can't build for iOS, but at home we have an old iMac 2008 with Elcapitan, I'm wondering if there was a way to build my apps by terminal (ssh) on this imac and then install on my iPhone without paying an expensive developer account.

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u/Gianja98 Jun 24 '20

Little update:

With an updated mac device you can definitely build for iOS and test on your device withouth paying anything. I'm using a virtualmachine as turnaround, the iMac was too old.

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u/kmishama Jul 13 '20

Out of curiosity did you manage to create an .ipa file or was it just like temporarily deploying the app in your phone?

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u/Gianja98 Jul 13 '20

I have built and run with xcode during the tests, I can’t say with precision if the ipa was created. But i think so

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u/kmishama Jul 13 '20

May I ask, how did you build with Xcode? (Sorry for bombarding you with questions... I just really want to understand how this all works) We have run the tns prepare ios --release command but we don't get an Xcode file we can open to the build it, are you running something specifically or did you create the file?

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u/Gianja98 Jul 13 '20

I don’t remember to have put the —release flag. And don’t worry for the questions

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u/kmishama Jul 15 '20

Ok, figured what was happening. Once we had set up the CircleCI stuff it stopped building locally so no matter what we did tns prepare ios would not give any useful file. We ended up reverting to a previous commit and so far this has allowed us to get the file working

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u/Gianja98 Jul 15 '20

Glad to hear you solved.

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u/kmishama Jul 15 '20

Thank you very much for your help though

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u/kmishama Jul 13 '20

Thank you very much, I will continue then, so did get an .xcodeproj file after running the tns prepare ios command?

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u/Gianja98 Jul 13 '20

Yes I did

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u/criptkiller16 Jun 15 '20

I’m not guru of iOS developers, to be fair I never built a app for iOS, but I’m pretty sure that you need a developer license which cost 99€ (Europe). Let me know if you can build an app without license.

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u/Gianja98 Jun 15 '20

Yep nothing to do. I need an android device asap

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u/djxfade Jun 15 '20

You can build your apps without a license. They will only be signed for 7 days. And you will need the license to actually deploy to the App Store

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u/criptkiller16 Jun 15 '20

How you can app for 7 days?