High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted disks

Re:High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted... by twothamendment on Monday October 02, 2017 @07:20PM (#15388797)

Work gave me my first smart phone, an iPhone. I thought it was great at first. Then I started to use it, transfer photos, etc. Then I saw the number of hoops you had to jump through to make an app and get it on your phone. That was enough for me. It was a while ago, but I have my doubts that it was much easier. I try to steer people away from an iPhone if they don't have a mac. They just don't play nice with others. Development is the same. I never did make an iPhone app because I didn't have a mac.

My next phone was one I bought, a Nexus device from google. Want to get an app on it? Download the SDK and tools, fire up hello world, throw it on your phone and it works.

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Re:High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted... by AlexeyBrin on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @09:23AM (#15392187)

> Download the SDK and tools, fire up hello world, throw it on your phone and it works.

This is exactly how it is done on iOS too from iOS 7/8. You don't need a Developer Account anymore to put your own apps on your own phone. You need a Dev. Account only if you want to push the app on App Store.

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Re:High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted... by stcredzero on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:09AM (#15392916)

Do you need an Apple machine to do it on?

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Re:High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted... by AlexeyBrin on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @02:08PM (#15402722)

For typical iOS development using Swift/Objective-C yes, you will need an Apple machine. Some people are using VMs instead but the experience is (usually) terrible. There are also cloud services where you can rent a macOS VPS, I never tried this approach.

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