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I have a Phonegap app which works perfectly in Android. I chose Phonegap as a platform mainly because the same code can be used for Android, iPhone, etc.. My question is though, how can I create iPhone app without actually having Apple hardware (iPhone + Mac) as I am having Windows notebook and HTC Desire HD and I am happy with it :-) My app for iPhone will be free so there is no possibility the app itself with compensate for the money for Apple HW. Can you please sum up some options I have how to deploy ready Phonegap app for iPhone ? Or what is the cheapest real option - e.g. buy used iPhone and some kind of used Mac ?
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You cannot develop iOS apps without a Mac computer, but you can set up CI/CD to handle building and publishing!
PhoneGap app development framework is based on the open source project – Apache Cordova.
Can I continue using PhoneGap after Adobe discontinues its support? PhoneGap will remain free and open sourced, however it will not be actively developed. Gradually, as iOS and Android operating system updates are released, the PhoneGap tooling will become incompatible with the latest version of Apache Cordova.
You can do it by compiling in the cloud with PhoneGap Build.
Check https://build.phonegap.com/
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Looking at the PhoneGap Cloud page here:
https://build.phonegap.com/docs/ios-builds
it mentions this :
"Note: Since PhoneGap Build uses Apple's standard development process to build applications, you will need to sign up for their developer program to build iOS applications on PhoneGap Build. You will also need a Mac to configure your certificate and provisioning profile."
I presume that this is a once-off thing to set up - i.e. you need to "borrow" a mac from somewhere if you don't have one. Does anyone know if this is correct?
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