Windows Bridge for iOS

Re:Windows Bridge for iOS by vxNsr on Thursday August 06, 2015 @03:25PM (#10018773)

I'm very impressed with the technical prowess involved in shipping this, that being said, I feel like OSS this is somewhat disingenuous. To use it you'll still need VS2015 (EDIT: this tool which will only work in Windows 10 according to the spec). While Windows 10 is a free upgrade, if you're developing iOS apps you probably don't have a windows license, (because Apple requires development to happen on OSX) so you're gonna need access to two closed source (and kinda expensive) pieces of software to see any real benefit from this, I guess at the very least there'll be an easy way to provide bug reports, feature and pull requests, etc (where usually for closed source you're SOL).

RE: The project itself: looks like they're still working on getting it to work on ARM, which is strange considering that iOS is ARM...

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Re:Windows Bridge for iOS by AdeptusAquinas on Thursday August 06, 2015 @03:31PM (#10018806)

One kinda expensive piece of software - Windows 10. VS2015 Community is free, and more than capable for the use of this.

I'd imagine if you are a mac developer then the price of Win10 is practically insignificant compared to what you are used to paying for OSX stuff.

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Re:Windows Bridge for iOS by dohboy on Thursday August 06, 2015 @07:03PM (#10020018)

You need to re-imagine.

I'm used to paying $0 for the OS X stuff needed to do development. This includes the Enterprise Professional Plus Home edition of both OS X and Xcode. In the lifetime of my Mac I have upgraded the OS 2 times and soon 3 for $0. So $307 is a bit significant for Windows 10 Pro (need BitLocker = Home is no go).

If you could have done the same on your Windows platform then please give me your Windows stuff contact person as he is clearly much cheaper than the ones I usually deal with.

But just for being in the Apple is ripping you off mode I did pay a bit more for the initial purchase of the hardware (around $205 more in todays prices than a comparable Dell XPS 13).

My day job is doing software management on the Windows platform so I'm fully aware of the licensing cost here. Including the price of operating a Windows developer above Visual Studio community level with their VS Pro/Enterprise editions, MSDN subscriptions, Team Foundation servers, and $2,500 HP workstation laptops (initial consumer price for lowest configuration). Seeing these prices almost causes a heart attack each time...

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Re:Windows Bridge for iOS by geofft on Thursday August 06, 2015 @07:43PM (#10020187)

If you run it in a VM on your Mac, you can take advantage of any host-level full-disk encryption and avoid needing Bitlocker. (Of course, you probably want to pay the $50 or so for VMware Fusion, if you're going that approach.)

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Re:Windows Bridge for iOS by dohboy on Thursday August 06, 2015 @08:33PM (#10020359)

Yes, hadn't thought of that actually.

But it was mostly an example. I already have all the Windows versions I want available through work.

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Re:Windows Bridge for iOS by chadzawistowski on Thursday August 06, 2015 @08:15PM (#10020287)

Where are you getting the $307 figure for Windows 10 Pro? The full cost of a brand-new Win10 Pro license is $199 according to Microsoft's website.

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Re:Windows Bridge for iOS by dohboy on Thursday August 06, 2015 @08:25PM (#10020333)

In the Microsoft store for my country the price is 2099 DKK equal to 307.41 USD.

Yes everything is expensive here... :/

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Re:Windows Bridge for iOS by detaro on Thursday August 06, 2015 @05:51PM (#10019710)

> RE: The project itself: looks like they're still working on getting it to work on ARM, which is strange considering that iOS is ARM...

Why is that strange? That iOS also runs on ARM doesn't help them very much for running stuff on ARM-based windows devices.

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Re:Windows Bridge for iOS by vvanders on Thursday August 06, 2015 @03:28PM (#10018787)

Err, VS2015 works fine on windows 7.

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Re:Windows Bridge for iOS by tslater2006 on Thursday August 06, 2015 @04:47PM (#10019342)

From the GitHub:

To use WinObjC, there are a few requirements. You need:

Windows 10

Visual Studio 2015 with Windows developer tools. Visual Studio 2015 Community is available for free here. Select (at least) the following components during installation:

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