Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 months agoI took an app development course in college. Everything was android and I tested on my own device, except one project had to be on apple. I managed to snag an ancient iPhone off a friend to test, but no, turns out you need a dev account to even be able to load your own code on your phone. Fuck apple forever.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Dev accounts are free. It’s only when you want to post stuff to the store that you start paying.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 months ago
You mean when you want to make it available to download in the only way Apple makes possible? It’s not like you can just send the apk to someone to run on their iPhone, if you want to share the app with others on an iPhone, you have to use the Apple App Store, you have to pay them $100 + the cost of an Apple computer. Just to share your FOSS app with your friends.
Tja@programming.dev 3 months ago
If dev accounts are free your friends can get their own accounts and load the app.
0xD@infosec.pub 3 months ago
It just works™️
ardi60@reddthat.com 3 months ago
on iOS its called ipa
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Did this change? It was about a decade ago. I could develop and test on an emulated device, but testing on hardware was 100% locked behind a $100 paywall.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I could be reading this wrong, but it looks like TestFlight allows you to distribute internally without going through the App Store.
…apple.com/…/distributing-your-app-for-beta-testi…
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It mentions the apple developer program which is what I assume the 100 dollar subscription is. I keep seeing people say dev accounts are free but any tools beyond the dev environment are paywalled.
I wasn’t even talking about app stores; I never published anything to Google play, just loaded through usb from android studio. The apple program didn’t allow even that.