Wednesday 20th June
Deploying to iPhone (or not)
Whilst trying to deploy my Xamarin iOS app to my iPhone i’ve discovered that in order to do so, I have to pay Apple £79 and enroll in the Apple Developer Program for privilege.
Well according to this Blog post anyway..
https://blog.xamarin.com/automatic-provisioning-visual-studio-2017/
I probably should have investigated this sooner, but thought that i’d be able to at least deploy to my own device without having to shell out.
I’m not willing to pay £79 just to continue this side project experiment, so I will have to call it a day.
Summary
I’m a little miffed to be honest. In my opinion, this isn’t how you encourage developers to adopt your platform.
That said, I have learnt a lot about Xamarin and should I ever come up with a serious app idea for iOS, i’d be in a good place to develop it and get it into the store.
Next steps..
- Move on