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