Creating Free iOS Apps: Requirements and Mac Necessity

[Math10]

How to make free apps on iOS? What skills are required to make them? What programming language is needed?

 

[jtbell]

If you already have a Mac, you can download Xcode for free from Apple, use it to learn Objective C and write apps that you can partially test on a simulator that runs on your Mac. However, in order to run your app on an iPad or iPhone and test it fully, it has to go through the Apple Store, and you have to pay Apple a developer's fee.

https://github.com/programmingthomas/FAQ

 

[Math10]

Do I must have a Mac?

 

[jtbell]

See the first question in the FAQ that I linked.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Do I must have a Mac?

Yes, Apple requires you upload the app package via a unique mac computer. I had to buy an old ibook just to upload the PF apps.