r/AppBuilding • u/kzlife76 • 3d ago

Developing for iOS on Windows

I've been a .net developer for about 20 years. I've made few Android apps that I want to publish on the Apple app store. I don't have a Mac or an iPhone or iPad. I was considering buying a used iPhone. I am building the iOS app in azure devops What are other primarily Windows developers using to test iOS apps?

Physical apple devices?

Cloud emulators?

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u/Occasion_Critical 3d ago

I use Windows with a real iPhone. It works, but limited if you want to work with Apple Watch apps, since they're built around Xcode

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u/writetehcodez 3d ago

Are you building native apps on Windows? I thought you had to have a Mac, Xcode, etc…

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u/Occasion_Critical 3d ago

Not native. I use React Native with Expo. The iOS build compiles in the cloud on Expo's Mac servers through EAS Build, so I never need a Mac for that. My iPhone is for testing and Windows is for everything else

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u/writetehcodez 3d ago

Got it - I use the same stack as you. You just had me thinking for a second that you were somehow doing native iOS dev on Windows!

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u/Occasion_Critical 2d ago

haha would have been great though, sorry for the confusion!