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I could feel inclined to take up iOS/Android app development if I could use Visual Studio. Last time I considered moving into mobile development, I had a "life
by billpg 11y ago
I could feel inclined to take up iOS/Android app development if I could use Visual Studio. Last time I considered moving into mobile development, I had a "life is too short" reaction.
Why would I still need an OS X machine for iOS development though? If MS could eliminate whatever that last link in the chain is, I'd have to give going into mobile development some serious reconsideration.
- casualviking 11y agoYou need a Mac to be able to build IOS apps. And to run the IOS simulator. Announced today however, is the ability to remote the simulator to a Windows machine. That probably means you can just buy a mac mini and stick it in a closet, potentially sharing it between multiple devs.
- JonathonW 11y agoYou can't quite stick the Mac Mini in a closet and forget about it, because you'll still need to connect devices to it when it comes time to deploy to device-- the simulator isn't complete enough to be the only test environment you use.
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- ickler 11y agoApple still sells hardware. Their TOS require it be compiled on their hardware.
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- VikingCoder 11y agoUghh.... They are THE WORST. Why do people support Apple? Remember when they said everything had to be written in Objective-C? Gah.