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iOS

Posted by ZongLan Yuan
ZongLan Yuan
Courses Plus Student 198 Points

Xcode for windows?

I am just wandering if there is any way to do IOS development on windows? either alternative tool or ways to get Xcode working on windows will be helpful.

PS: I don't really want to do the Virtual Machine way, as I don't a decent hardware on my laptop to run it.

2 Answers

Kai Aldag
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Kai Aldag
Courses Plus Student 13,560 Points
Kai Aldag
Kai Aldag
Courses Plus Student 13,560 Points

No sadly the only way to do it would be a hackintosh which changes the operating system on your computer from windows to OS X. If you want to do that you can simply google it, but you can do android development to make android apps if you want to go mobile.

Hope this helps, Kai.

Joseph Potts
Joseph Potts
11,187 Points
Joseph Potts
Joseph Potts
11,187 Points

There is no way, especially based on what the description of what you wrote. You need a very good laptop/desktop in order to even run a hackintosh version of OS X on your machine. I have an AMD A-8 processor on my HP Laptop and I tried to run a virtual machin version of OS X Mountain Lion. It installed and everything, but it was damn slow, which goes to show just how unsupported PC's are of the OS X software.

I am now facing the same problem as you, and the only solution would be to spend at least $999.99 on a Macbook to be able to develop for iOS devices.

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

you could always get a mac mini. they are a bit more affordable, especially if you already have a monitor. Apple sells refurbished machines too which knocks about $200 or so off the price tag.