{"id":14227,"date":"2022-10-06T23:43:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T18:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-can-i-develop-ios-app-and-mobile-sw-on-windows-pc-or-must-i-buy-a-mac-closed\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T23:43:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T18:13:57","slug":"solved-can-i-develop-ios-app-and-mobile-sw-on-windows-pc-or-must-i-buy-a-mac-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-can-i-develop-ios-app-and-mobile-sw-on-windows-pc-or-must-i-buy-a-mac-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Can i develop IOS app and mobile sw on windows pc or must I buy a mac? [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-14171916\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"14171916\" data-parentid=\"14171883\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>iOS development must be done under OS X. The proper way to do this is to buy Mac hardware. You can build a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hackintosh.com\/\">Hackintosh<\/a> if you&#8217;d rather, but you cannot install OS X in a virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p>What you could do, if you want to target multiple platforms (Windows Phone, iOS, Android) is to use a cross-platform development tool. You may (I haven&#8217;t checked) find one that runs under Windows and will compile for iOS. You still have the problem of uploading to the App Store however, as that process is now integrated into Xcode (Apple&#8217;s development environment).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">3<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Can i develop IOS app and mobile sw on windows pc or must I buy a mac? [closed] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] iOS development must be done under OS X. The proper way to do this is to buy Mac hardware. 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