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Question by shubhank008 · Apr 03, 2014 at 07:29 PM · androidiosfree

Develop for iOS/Android using Windows PC

I wanted to know something, can a developer develop a game for iOS and android both using a Windows PC ? I am asking about developing, not publishing. I have a macbook but I prefer to work on my PC due to having a better keyboard and bigger monitor to use. I will ofcourse have a macbook to publish the iOS game.

Also, can a project created and developed using Unity Windows be modified and used in Unity Mac ? Like I developed my game using windows version, I went to test it on my iPhone using my macbook but found bugs, then I decide to fix the bugs on my macbook itself using the Unity Mac rather then fixing them on Windows PC and then transferring my files back.

oh and just to confirm, the free version of Unity (basic I think) allows you to publish on iOS and android devices right ?

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Answer by Graham-Dunnett · Apr 03, 2014 at 09:50 PM

A1. Yes, you can do development of an iOS app on a Windows machine. You will not be able to test your app on an iOS device without using your Mac.

A2. Yes, you can share a project between a PC and a Mac. The way you should do this is to use some revision control software. It's normal to encounter bugs in your code when you move from to a mobile device. (Which is why doing iOS development on a Windows machine doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I'd assume that your keyboard and monitor can connect to your macbook.)

A3. Yes.

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so how do I create an IOS? I already have a created mobile game for android in my unity window computer. The easy way i can think of is just changing the platform from android to ios in the player setting but i think it is just too easy, and i see a lot of tutorials, they need xcode or something and they still need to use a virtual mac, i hate downloading and installing stuff so I just wanna know the easy way to create an IOS on a window comp.

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You cannot build for iOS on a mac. There may be some virtual OSX or other hack but the default solution is to have a mac computer to build.

I have never used the Unity cloud but from what I've understood, it is meant to store the project on the cloud and allow to build any platforms. You still need an iOS device obviously.

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Answer by ElianBS · Oct 26, 2015 at 12:27 PM

I am working my projects between my pc and the macbook for my team using google drive (or dropbox if you prefer) to share folders and i don´t have any problem at that time.

By the way i use the pc to export the project to apk but i see in some web sides you can do this in a mac to, instead for export a project to IOS you just do it from a mac. (i am not sure of this at all).

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Answer by shivanshu · Oct 26, 2015 at 09:53 AM

Yes , You Can.Go for link blow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22358/how-can-i-develop-for-iphone-using-a-windows-development-machine

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