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In all sincerity, how useful is an open source iOS app? Don't you still need to pay their $100/year fee to distribute it? Wouldn't you have to jailbreak your

In all sincerity, how useful is an open source iOS app? Don't you still need to pay their $100/year fee to distribute it? Wouldn't you have to jailbreak your phone just to install this yourself?

gregbarbosa 13y ago
Open source iOS apps are extremely helpful to anyone learning iOS development. There are intricacies to learn, and not everywhere teaches it all. Looking at someone else's completed iOS source code you can learn and understand UI/UX design patterns, the MVC process of creating iOS apps, and so much more. I recently took a course in college for iOS development, and because of open-source code I was able to ace the class and get picked-up for potential funding on the class project. Yes you need to pay Apple the $99 to get it on your own device, and no you don't need to jailbreak (unless you want to circumvent the $99). Plus there are other ways to get the app on your device without paying or jailbreaking (creating your certificates, etc).
chrisBob 13y ago
You can see the example code and run it on the simulator without paying for the developer program. I think there is also still a student program that lets students run code on hardware for free, but yes, you need to pay for the developer program to run it on your own iPhone/iPad. The MIT license also means that if someone else wants to maintain it they can fix it up and put it back in the store.
ianstallings 13y ago
No you wouldn't need to jailbreak your phone to run it. You have the source code and you can compile that and xcode can install it.
- nacs 13y ago
  XCode may be able to install it in the iOS Simulator but it certainly won't install on your device without the $99/year license (unless you jailbreak).
  - thoughtpalette 13y ago
    appaloosa-store.com is a private app-ecosystem, I believe you're allowed one free app on the free plan. Super simple to setup and install. You can also hook jenkins builds up to it.

In all sincerity, how useful is an open source iOS app? Don't you still need to pay their $100/year fee to distribute it? Wouldn't you have to jailbreak your phone just to install this yourself?

gregbarbosa 13y ago

Open source iOS apps are extremely helpful to anyone learning iOS development. There are intricacies to learn, and not everywhere teaches it all. Looking at someone else's completed iOS source code you can learn and understand UI/UX design patterns, the MVC process of creating iOS apps, and so much more. I recently took a course in college for iOS development, and because of open-source code I was able to ace the class and get picked-up for potential funding on the class project. Yes you need to pay Apple the $99 to get it on your own device, and no you don't need to jailbreak (unless you want to circumvent the $99). Plus there are other ways to get the app on your device without paying or jailbreaking (creating your certificates, etc).

chrisBob 13y ago

You can see the example code and run it on the simulator without paying for the developer program. I think there is also still a student program that lets students run code on hardware for free, but yes, you need to pay for the developer program to run it on your own iPhone/iPad. The MIT license also means that if someone else wants to maintain it they can fix it up and put it back in the store.

ianstallings 13y ago

No you wouldn't need to jailbreak your phone to run it. You have the source code and you can compile that and xcode can install it.

nacs 13y ago
XCode may be able to install it in the iOS Simulator but it certainly won't install on your device without the $99/year license (unless you jailbreak).
- thoughtpalette 13y ago
  appaloosa-store.com is a private app-ecosystem, I believe you're allowed one free app on the free plan. Super simple to setup and install. You can also hook jenkins builds up to it.