• Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I just wished it was as easy as making apk files but for apple devices, I don’t want to pay for an apple developer account every year so I could make a free app for my family to use.

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      7 months ago

      In the meantime you can use SideStore to side load two apps on your iOS device. Down side you need to open the SideLoad once a week and renew access to your side loaded apps.

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      7 months ago

      Look into a tool called expo. Maybe it only works with react native, but I was using it to load an app I was building onto testers devices and I didn’t have a developer account.

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      6 months ago

      For anyone looking to sideload on their iPhone without jailbreaking or paying for a dev account, look into Trollstore, if your IOS version is compatable, you can sideload unlimited apps thanks to the 2 coretrust bugs.

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        6 months ago

        To use trollstore you need to make an IPA app. I use react native with expo which requires apple developer account to sign the app before compiling, or you need to own a Mac to use Xcode to compile, which no one in my family owns one.

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          6 months ago

          What about a MacOS virtual machine? If you use Linux, SomeOridnaryGamers has a video on how to set one up.