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iOS

Posted by Rohin Kansal
Rohin Kansal
Courses Plus Student 642 Points

iOS Development on Windows?

Can I develop iOS Apps on windows PC??

6 Answers

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Xamarin, and there are other examples too like Appcelerator, are cross-platform development tools so, yes, you can use that to write apps that work on Apple devices - they'll equally work on Android devices too as you can export the code to the environment of your choosing.

This isn't quite the same as developing with Native code and there are restrictions in what you can achieve and some other efficiency issues. But if you just want to put out an App on an Apple device, then these are viable alternatives at a small cost.

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Unfortunately not, no. You'll need a Mac to be able to download Xcode and create applications in either Objective C or Swift.

Steve.

Jesse Morris
Jesse Morris
1,970 Points
Jesse Morris
Jesse Morris
1,970 Points

Unfortunately you cannot download Xcode (The IOS coding platform Treehouse uses) on Windows sorry.

John Amadeo
John Amadeo
5,546 Points
John Amadeo
John Amadeo
5,546 Points

If I'm not mistaken you could use a program called Xamarin to write iOS apps in the C# language, but of course Treehouse doesn't teach C# and that might just be a dealbreaker.

Rohin Kansal
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Rohin Kansal
Courses Plus Student 642 Points
Rohin Kansal
Rohin Kansal
Courses Plus Student 642 Points

Thanks everyone for helping me knowing about the answer to this question.

Stephen McMillan
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Stephen McMillan
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Stephen McMillan
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Hey Rohin,

You can do iOS Development on windows. Technically... I found this website a while ago called 'MacinCloud' - www.macincloud.com it allows you to connect to a virtual mac through your browser or remote desktop application. I don't use it personally so i wont be able to tell you if its good or bad but they offer a trial so you could try that! In my opinion, because im a student its rather expensive. In the short term i guess it would alot cheaper than buying a thousand pound Mac and atleast you haven't made a huge investment if you decide after while you decide iOS development isn't for you.

Hope I helped! :)

-Stephen