Important: A Mac is required to produce iOS apps for the Apple App Store
Another user asked if a Mac was required. This is a sufficiently important topic, and I'm repeating my answer here for that reason.
My equipment in this world: a Windows 7 PC and an iPod Touch 4. So, I asked myself the same question.
I read iOS Development With Flash, by Dolce (Visual Blueprint publishing). The book is about a year old, so some screenshots are out-of-date, because Apple changed things since the publishing. The book is excellent, though. It walks you through the entire process of creating an iOS app, especially for Windows users.
Here's the bottom line:
- Using Windows, you can do the development using Flash CS5.5.
- Using Windows,you can generate the certificates, provisioning files, etc. (it's not simple, but it's not hard).
- You have to have an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad to test your app on.
- Using Windows, you can use iTunes to transfer your app file from your PC to your device for testing.
- Using Windows, you can use iTunesConnect (the website that lets you specify all your app details to Apple for their App Store).
- YOU CANNOT UPLOAD YOUR APP FILE TO THE APP STORE WITHOUT A MAC!!!
Previously, Apple allowed you to upload your app using iTunesConnect, the website. THEY REMOVED THAT CAPABILITY.
Now, you must use Apple's Application Uploader (or whatever it's called) to upload your app file to the App Store (and, remember that Apple has to approve your app before they put it on their App Store).
The only way to get the Application Uploader, if I understand correctly, is to install the Apple Developer SDK. And, you can only install that SDK on a Mac.
So, this seems to be the last-ditch effort by Apple to force you to have a Mac to send your final app file to them for review and hopeful publishing on the the App Store.
If anyone knows otherwise, please correct this info.
In my previous thread you said
I didn't mean the P12 file that Flash uses. There are developer and distribution certificates that get installed into Keychain Access on the Mac, that the various developer tools can directly read. My suspicion is that Application Loader reads those, as part of the process of seeing if you're entitled to be uploading anything to that account.
Is there any clarification on this? Because in this guide it seems to suggest doing the signing up on the PC, and then using something called openSSL, also at the bottom there is a comment which says...
Just a note that it’s possible that this tutorial needs to be updated to accomodate new requirements from Apple. I was able to gain access to a Mac and I can now install the test app just fine. I followed this tutorial word for word once then again from scratch and was never able to successfully install the app to my iPhone. I did notice that if I pull a certificate generated this way into Apple Keychain the option to export a key is not there. So that’s likely where the problem lies.
So at a very rough (I'm new to AIR and iOS) guess I'm thinking sign up on the Mac, test on the iPhone via itunes again on the mac, and when the game is done, submit via the mac, but I can develop via the Flash CS5.5/AIR/Windows and create the necessary files which I will then have to port across to the Mac for any kind of submission/testing (on an actual device) ??
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We have developed a desktop application using Flash software and published the same for MAC environment. When we double click on the index.app file, the application is working perfectly in Mac 10.6.7 at our office. But if the same index.app file is double clicked in Mac 10.6.7 at out clients location, its not opening. For your information the client is able to open this same application by double clicking on index.swf file. The main problem is that client is not able to open the application using index.app file at their office whereas we are able to do so at our office. Can anyone give some suggestions to sort this problem?
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Why do they make apps for iPhone and dont make matching apps for the mac?
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Hi Jenn,
I see you already had a discussion about this and its really terrible that newsstand isnt there, but i thought I might share a few apps that do exist on both ios and mac in order to sync the two or atleast make your iphone a bit more of a sidekick to your mac or viceversa as I faced the same problems (some of them are stock apple apps but they are the best solution in my opinion).
Calendar: Use the normal reminders and calendar apps on the iphone and mac, they do a neat job syncing up
Browser: Chrome, you do need to have a gmail account for this but icloud for safari isnt as good as chromes syncing for your bookmarks and open tabs and saved passwords.
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Mail: Mail for Mac is generally good, but the syncing here is achieved by setting up as IMAP so make sure you always setup all your accounts as IMAP.
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Music: Stream to me / itunes match, both of these are paid services but they allow you to share your music across both the iphone and the mac and they seem to be worth it for the price
News articles and interesting weblinks: Pocket, not a lot to say except for that its nice
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Messaging: Apple messages, skype
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Take each of these steps that you haven't already tried. Stop when the problem is resolved.
Step 1
The first step in dealing with a boot failure is to secure your data. If you want to preserve the contents of the startup drive, and you don't already have at least one current backup, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data that has changed since your last backup, you can skip this step.
There are several ways to back up a Mac that is unable to boot. You need an external hard drive to hold the backup data.
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b. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, boot the non-working Mac in target disk mode. Use the working Mac to copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
c. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.
Step 2
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Step 3
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Step 4
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Step 5
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Step 6
Press and hold the power button until the power shuts off. Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed to boot, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Use a different keyboard and/or mouse, if those devices are wired. If you can boot now, one of the devices you disconnected, or a combination of them, is causing the problem. Finding out which one is a process of elimination.
Step 7
If you've booted from an external storage device, make sure that your internal boot volume is selected in the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences.
Boot in safe mode. Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Post for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, and some things won’t work at all, including wireless networking on certain Macs.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
When you boot in safe mode, it's normal to see a dark gray progress bar on a light gray background. If the progress bar gets stuck for more than a few minutes, or if the system shuts down automatically while the progress bar is displayed, your boot volume is corrupt and the drive is probably malfunctioning. In that case, go to Step 6.
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Step 8
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Step 10
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