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iOS

Posted by Joshua Hawthorne
Joshua Hawthorne
18,523 Points

How can we develop iPhone apps locally with MAMP?

I'm developing an app that needs to access several backend API's. How can I point my iPhone at my local MAMP server where I have my API's? I can't test on my server....there are several issues with that but I won't go into detail here.

I have a baseURL property I can manipulate in my Swift code. What else do I need to do to get this to work?

1 Answer

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Joshua,

MAMP by itself doesn't have an excellent integrated feature that the PRO version does, this feature makes use of xip.io which you can install manually, but it's not simple to.

You could also run a custom DNS server from OS X, but that is more of an advanced option.