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iOS Build a Simple iPhone App with Swift Deploying to a Device App Icons and Launch Screens

Jeanne Merle
Jeanne Merle
3,390 Points
Posted by Jeanne Merle
Jeanne Merle
3,390 Points

I want to follow the next course without paying the Apple license

The license costs 99$ and I don't want to take it right now because right now I have nothing yet ready to be published. I want to see the next courses (about making other apps) but they are locked. That's not very fair : forcing people to buy a license when they just want to practice a little more.

3 Answers

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi Jeanne,

Can you not just skip through those videos and carry on with the next courses?

I don't think there was much in those parts of the course, just basics on how to publish etc. But I can't remember how much you can do without signing up with Apple.

I paid mine over a year ago and haven't had any reminder to pay another and I dont think anything has been restricted.

Justin Black
Justin Black
24,793 Points
Justin Black
Justin Black
24,793 Points

Just to clarify, without paying you can still develop most things. Only thing you can't do is deploy on your actual device.

You 'll want to buy one if:

  1. You are building an app that requires the use of a camera
  2. You are implementing push notifications

In the last year of doing Objective C, I don't think I've really run into any other issues in the simulator that would prohibit development.

Jeremy Williams
Jeremy Williams
9,078 Points
Jeremy Williams
Jeremy Williams
9,078 Points

You do not have to buy the license to keep watching the videos. You only have to buy the license to follow along and publish the app to your phone or the app store. Once you have watched the videos and completed the quizzes and challenges the next course will unlock and you can keep moving along the track.

Jeanne Merle
Jeanne Merle
3,390 Points
Jeanne Merle
Jeanne Merle
3,390 Points

Hi , and thanks ! once again I wanted to fo faster than the courses ... I have watched the whole videos, answered the quizz and VOILA I can access the next course !

Thanx Steve and Jeremy !