Starting development on ios platform with windows 7

Question

New to ios development, looking for some guides, Can I develop ios application on windows 7 having mac os as virtual machine, and if yes then what are the things that i need to install first to get started.

Answer 1

You can do Virtual Machine on Windows for Mac but this will cause lots of a problem and its not worth the hassle.

You can leave out all the hackintosh stuff and try to do yourself in mac-mini

but if you are still insistent on using windows machine and comfortable with C# then you can give a try on Xamarin.iOS.

Microsoft has introduced Xamarin Live Player using which you can debug,develop and deploy the app completely in windows without the help of any Apple system but to sign and release the app to appstore you will need Apple System though

Answer 2

Yes you can. It's called hackintosh. I purchased a $30 CD from an apple store and followed directions found on many sites, check youtube. Yes, it violates the MAC OS X EULA. I would say no less than 5% of iphone apps are developed this way, especially those developed in India (4 of 5 developers i've spoke with write code this way).

Should you purchase a Mac Mini and do it "right". That's up to you. The time i spent getting hackintosh up and running, I could have billed out enough hours to have purchased 5 mac mini's.

Answer 3

There is no legal way to develop iOS applications on Windows at the moment. Running Mac OS X in a VM on non-Apple hardware is a violation of Mac OS X EULA. If you hadn't mentioned a VM I would have voted to close this question as duplicate, as Can I develop iOS apps on Windows? is a very frequently question. The canonical answer is: No, buy a cheap used Mac Mini.