Deploying to the Apple App Store (iOS)

You'll need a Mac running macOS high Sierra. If the app has been signed already then you don't need Xcode - there is a another tool, Application Loader - that you download from the Apple developer's website.

If the app has not been signed yet, then you'll need to have the correct signing profiles and certs. All of which you can get from the developer website (https://developer.apple.com)
 
Daruk said:
I'm needing to deploy an app developed with React Native to the App store but haven't done it before. I've signed up for the developer account and if I'm to understand it, I need a macbook and xCode to complete the deployment. I've compiled and deployed to the Google Play store without issues but the App store could be fun... ahem...

What hardware do I need exactly? Can I get by with a basic macbook air 2Gb RAM, 64 Gb drive or do I have to get a certain level macbook (and OS level?) to do the compile / deployment?
OR.... is it acheiveable in a virtual machine on VMWare or VirtualBox?

Thanks in advance!
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This.
 
Daruk said:
Unfortunately VMWare machine is playing up - intermittently slows down to being unusable within 5 minutes of booting. Not sure what's up.
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There's a Linus Tech Tip video where he installed Mac Os on Linux with virtually no slow down. It's on youtube.
 
SYNERGY said:
There's a Linus Tech Tip video where he installed Mac Os on Linux with virtually no slow down. It's on youtube.
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I did it before, on my desktop, as a VMWare Player image. It worked a treat.. I just couldn't spare the hard disk space, and then I thought bugger it, we're getting the real thing anyway
 
ArtyLoop said:
@Daruk.. stop being a wuss and buy a Mac, once you got Mac you never go back...
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He seemed more than willing to do this.

However the hardware spec mentioned wouldn’t have cut it for High Sierra and therefore not the latest version of Xcode.

A new MacBook Air would do the job.
 
SauRoNZA said:
He seemed more than willing to do this.

However the hardware spec mentioned wouldn’t have cut it for High Sierra and therefore not the latest version of Xcode.

A new MacBook Air would do the job.
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The latest version of Xcode including Swift 5 requires macOS Mojave 10.14.4; so even if his spec could only accommodate High Sierrra it would not be suitable for continued development in light of Swift's ABI and very likelihood that Apple would want developers to comply with that after WWDC in June + it;s very likely there's going to be a new macOS is they keep up with yearly releases, and similarly Xcode.


Swift Compiler for Windows
The release of Swift for Windows is almost feature complete and for the most part ready to start beta testing full Windows builds using Visual Studio and the C / C++ Windows APIs; however the possibility for something equating with the cross platform shared builds like C# and .Net's Xamarin is not even on the radar. The Swift core language, Foundation libraries whilst available on Windows do not provide any guaranteed and transparent cross platform compatibility between macOS, Linux and Windows; so would require compiler logical predicates for quite a few of the remaining Foundation library differences.

SwiftPM
SwiftPM is also feature complete on Windows, so most of the type generic github libraries should work fine, but that's where it ends. The rest of the APIs stuff would be what's specific for each platform; for example:
  • macOS / ios / tvOS / watchOS
  • Linux GDI+
  • Windows C / C++ APIs.

You can btw find more on Swift on Windows here: https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-windows/22458
 
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biometrics said:
Not going to help you but I deploy to the App Store directly from the Windows IDE: www.b4x.com
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That's an overlap with a majority of the new cross platform integration and build features that Microsoft launched with VS2019; so that would also be another option if he was using C# as opposed to Swift.
 
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[)roi(] said:
The latest version of Xcode including Swift 5 requires macOS Mojave 10.14.4; so even if his spec could only accommodate High Sierrra it would not be suitable for continued development in light of Swift's ABI and very likelihood that Apple would want developers to comply with that after WWDC in June + it;s very likely there's going to be a new macOS is they keep up with yearly releases, and similarly Xcode.
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Sorry, typo there.

I meant Mojave.
 
Daruk said:
Yeah, unfortunately React Native as mentioned in OP
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In that case you really need to consider moving to a Mac; your current workflow doesn't sound like it lends itself to proper testing and depending on the growing complexity of the app, that's very likely to bite you.
 
Wasn’t there talk of being able to do this via iPad?

Or was that a pipe dream yet to happen one day in the future?
 
SauRoNZA said:
Wasn’t there talk of being able to do this via iPad?

Or was that a pipe dream yet to happen one day in the future?
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If you are referring to being able to develop on an iPad, then YES and NO:
  • iPads have supported Swift playgrounds since 2016, but that's primarily as a learning resource. So yes you can open / create a Xcode playground on the iPad, but it's certainly not practical or possible as a Mac replacement.
  • A full Xcode on iPad is very unlikely IMO and would be nothing more than a novelty rather than offer a revolutionary, practical or productive workflow.
 
We got a Mac mini that sits in the corner just to do the compile deployment. VS does to it.
 
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