I hope this thread is an OK place for this - didn't seem worthy of a new thread.
When considering app development, especially for iOS, is it critical that you own a Mac?
I'm thinking of purchasing a Macbook Pro. I actually already hired someone months back to develop my app, but it's been sitting in a folder because I don't have a Mac, Swift, XCode or whatever Apple users use for development in 2020 (haven't used a Mac since 2010).
Any other ways to test it out and get it going?
Apologies if this is the wrong place for this random question.
Yes you need a Mac. To develop an iOS or macOS app, you need to use Xcode and have access to its SDK. Xcode is only available with Macs.
I’ve read about people making a Hackintosh, which is where you run a bootlegged version of macOS on a virtual machine, but this works very poorly and honestly isn’t even worth trying.
Not sure if its same as Hackintosh, but there was, i think Sierra, that could be launched on VM with just a some oneliner change to VM. It was slow to startup, even on 16GB ram that i had at that time (but with no SSD).
I didn't run XCode on it so i can't say how the experience is.
@Ninjakid what exactly "works very poorly" means?
And i don't know if cash is constraint for OP, but if so maybe buying old used mac would do?
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