Xamarin Visual Studio iOS Development Without a Mac

Xamarin Visual Studio IOS Development Without a Mac?

Yes, you must have a Mac to do Xamarin.iOS development. The Mac is required for building as well as running the iOS simulator. You can either use it as a build server, and actually do your development in Visual Studio (either in a standalone PC, or on a VM running on your Mac), or you can do your development directly on the Mac using Xamarin Studio as your IDE.

How do I build an iPhone Xamarin App without a Mac?

With Visual Studio 2019 preview you have the Hot Restart that allow you to deploy with the iTunes to your local iphone/ipad...

https://learn.microsoft.com/es-es/xamarin/xamarin-forms/deploy-test/hot-restart

Can Xamarin not be used without a Mac?

Yes you will need a Mac. It's not so much a limitation on Xamarin as it is a restriction by Apple to make people buy their hardware.

Regardless of if you are looking to tinker, ship an app or set up a build pipeline, your best option is something like MacinCloud or a Mac Mini (i.e. something on your local network).

UPDATE: During the Build 2017 conference, Xamarin Live Player was announced!

Cannot get list of iOS simulators in Debug Target from Visual Studio 2022 on Windows

Please be noted that XCode 14 is not yet supported in Xamarin.iOS or .NET MAUI, you need downgrade your Xcode version to 13.4.1 and could download it from the downloads page in the Apple Developer Portal. For more information, you can refer to https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/15954

Update:

Xcode 14 is currently supported and if there are any other issues, please continue to post back to the GitHub.Thanks!

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