Xcode alternative for Windows?
Hi, I'd like to get into iOS development. Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac and I'm not ready to buy one just for that. I've seen some Xcode videos, and I think it's a huge advantage that you see a simulated phone, and input fields, etc., are so easy to add. Is there an alternative for Windows? Some IDEs allow you to write Swift code, but I miss that digital phone. I use VS Code. Is there an extension for that? Or another program?
LG and thanks for answers
catfish
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There is now the possibility to develop with Swift on Windows OS, but an IDE that, in combination with it, provides UI builders and others like Xcode, is not yet available to me.
If you want to adhere to this Technologiestack, Cloud Services would be a solution that hosts a mac OS (e.g.: macincloud, vmosx) or you can set a VM with the corresponding operating system.
If you’re open for a change to another technology, you could look at the following stacks:
Or you build your surface instead with web technologies (HTML, CSS, React, …) and represent it, for example, in a WebView (or build a website directly if your requirements can still be met).
Once you want to bring apps to the Apple App Store, a mac OS with Xcode is always needed.
For example, with the MAUI Framework, you can develop an app that works on both Android, iOS, Windows, etc. You would do this in Visual Studio. You have a preview there, can use an Android emulator and test it as a Windows program. But if you want to build it for iPhone, you won’t get around a Mac. You might be able to install a Mac version in a VM to handle it. With Linux, Windows, Android, everything is not a problem, but Apple is very own
Thank you, I’ll try the Mac version.
Yeah, okay, I don’t think that’s gonna happen after what I’ve read so far. Perhaps I remain in my previous world, see web development.
Why? What’s wrong?