I think the oldest you should aim for is a 4S - which is the oldest device that will accept iOS 8. Although I'm not sure how quickly 4S phones run iOS8... but it should allow testing at least.
Well, hopefully a VM will be enough for compiling and tht it will work with b4i. For testing, I think that inevitably you need an iphone and/or an ipad device (but you can get good deals online for older devices).
Make sure that it runs at least Mavericks 10.9.x to support compilation to iOS 8!
I'm not very happy with this solution, but I think that I will go this way until I get enough money to buy any Mac (probably the mini).
In Argentina the Mac Mini cost about $1500, the Macbook Air and pro are about $2500-3000 and the Mac Pro about $4000.
I thought the general consensus of b4i was that a mac was not required??
I for one cannot afford one, so will not be purchasing one. My next machine purchase will be a cheap laptop to replace this 7 yr old one. This is the only system I have so would like to replace it before it dies and leaves me with nothing. Not going to happen probably for another year or so though.
Hi All,
Something interesting I came across today. Was thinking that this is a way that existing libraries that people have already written could be cross compiled to Objective C. Or, you could even just write the complete app in B4A and then use xmlvm to output to an iPhone app?
Any thoughts?
http://xmlvm.org/android/
The first version is just the first version. Many more libraries will be available afterwards, including barcode scanning.Will barcode recognition be implemented?
i want to ask which is the lowest version of iPhone that will be supported/required for development. and if someone doesnt have a iPhone, can they go for iPad mini instead.
2nd questions, until i get a Apple Dev account, can i jailbreak and install B4i app on it?
until i get a Apple Dev account, can i jailbreak and install B4i app on it?
i want to ask which is the lowest version of iPhone that will be supported/required for development. and if someone doesnt have a iPhone, can they go for iPad mini instead.
2nd questions, until i get a Apple Dev account, can i jailbreak and install B4i app on it?
b4i will support only ios7 and up so the minimum for that is iphone 4 !!
xcode6 can develope also for older ios but b4i will run only on devices with ios 7 and up (like erel allready mentioned)
You can develop and test in a emulator without paying the dev account?
If this is true, so we can pay for B4i license, test for a while using the emulator (we compile in our mac machine as erel say, and test in the emulator) and after we feel we are ready to go and publish then we pay for the Apple dev account?
Do you think is possible to avoid having an iOS device at all? I mean, you test in the emulator, and just publish to the App Store when you are ready.
With Xcode yes. With B4i you need a real device with a developer account.You can develop and test in a emulator without paying the dev account?
With Xcode yes. With B4i you need a real device with a developer account.
You may be able to also test your app on the emulator however it will require one or more additional steps and it will not work with the debugger.
B4i is a Windows tool. The iOS emulator doesn't work on Windows. It is likely that we will also provide a hosting service where we will host the Mac compiler for your (a bit similar to MacInCloud). This means that you will be able to develop without a local Mac.
Yes. You need to have an Apple developer license to start developing with B4i. You also need such a license if you develop with Xcode assuming that you want to test your app on a real device and/or plan to upload it to the app store (it is true that you can "save" a month or two with Xcode however in the long term it is more or less meaningless).b4i will work only with a dev account? so that means we will first need to buy the 99$ license before we even started to make anything in b4i..
not so good news...
The mac will run a small "compiler" server which will be used by the IDE to compile the app when needed. When the app is ready you will need to upload the ipa file to the Mac and upload it to the app store.how will it work, we make an app in b4i then transfer the app to mac an compile there and then we will be able to publish it??
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