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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by cmelbye on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:11PM (#14318684)
Yeah, these days it's easy to use an online service to submit to the App Store. Buddybuild (buddybuild.com) is really helpful for this. It acts as a CI system, and it can deploy builds to iTunes Connect with one click.
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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by viktorbenei on Saturday May 13, 2017 @01:44AM (#14329697)
Bitrise can do that too, and has Xamarin support as well - https://www.bitrise.io/

(I'm the CTO there)

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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by capote on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:56PM (#14318985)
I came here to ask about submitting to the App Store. Does this mean that a Mac is, technically, no longer required for the entire process of development -> release of iOS apps?
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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by henriksen on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:18PM (#14319148)
You'd probably want to performance test your app with a full MacOS compile, but the whole UI implementation, function and experience testing can be done without a Mac. And you need a Mac for deploying to the store.
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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by hbcondo714 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:12PM (#14319102)
There is no mention of this process being able to upload an IPA file so I'm assuming we still need to use xCode or Application Loader on a Mac
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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by bpicolo on Friday May 12, 2017 @09:39AM (#14323849)
They do say "the whole process" https://www.buddybuild.com/features/deployment/

Also http://docs.buddybuild.com/docs/download-ipa

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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by cmelbye on Friday May 12, 2017 @01:56PM (#14326197)
Yes. Buddybuild can build IPA files and upload them directly to iTunes Connect.
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