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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Can a ios app be developed on a windows or ipad? Post 302836635 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 24th of July 2013 12:39:07 PM

07-24-2013

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If you can figure out the binary object file format for iOS apps and you can write a program to cross compile software that you write and link it into that object file format that will run on your Windows system, then you can write iOS apps on Windows. After you have done that, you could create an iOS app to run on your iPad or iPhone to edit, compile, and link software written on your iPad or iPhone to build apps to run on your iPad or iPhone.

If you want any help from Apple to make any of this easy for you, I doubt that they'll oblige. I assume Apple wants to sell Macs for iOS app development. And, I assume that Apple doesn't want to have to worry about the changes that happen in every Windows release that would make it a pain for them to develop, sell, and maintain a tool that runs on Windows that would provide a cross compilation environment for iOS apps as a product. Or, more likely, Apple hasn't been shown that doing so would be profitable.

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ideviceinstaller(1)					      General Commands Manual					       ideviceinstaller(1)

NAME

       ideviceinstaller - Manage iDevice apps

SYNOPSIS

       ideviceinstaller [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       Allows to install, upgrade, uninstall, archive, restore and enumerate installed or archived apps on iDevices.

OPTIONS

   General options:
       -d, --debug
	      enable communication debugging.

       -U, --uuid UUID
	      target specific device by its 40-digit device UUID.

       -h, --help
	      prints usage information

   Commands:
       -l, --list-apps
	      list apps installed on the device.

	      Additional options:

	      -o list_user
		     list user apps only (apps installed by the user) This is the default.

	      -o list_system
		     list system apps only (apps available from the system firmware)

	      -o list_all
		     list all types of apps

	      -o xml print output in xml format (PList)

       -i, --install ARCHIVE
	      install app from a package file specified by ARCHIVE.

       -u, --uninstall APPID
	      uninstall app specified by APPID.

       -g, --upgrade APPID
	      upgrade app specified by APPID.

       -r, --restore APPID
	      restore archived app specified by APPID.

       -L, --list-archives
	      list archived applications on the device.

	      Additional options:

	      -o xml print output in xml format (PList)

       -a, --archive APPID
	      archive app specified by APPID.

	      Additional options:

	      -o uninstall
		     uninstall the package after making an archive

	      -o app_only
		     archive application data only

	      -o copy=PATH
		     copy the app archive to directory PATH when done

	      -o remove
		     only valid when copy=PATH is used: remove after copy

       -R, --remove-archive APPID
	      remove app archive specified by APPID.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Martin Szulecki.

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