Developing Unity game on Windows for iOS devices

Question

My unity application is developed for iOS devices, but for some reason at this moment I have only Windows PC.

I searched around and found similar information, but not clear for what I want. My query is I will do development of the game in Windows PC using C#. Then will build and deploy to iOS device using MAC. Is that possible? I like to make sure.

Answer 1

I have made several Unity3D projects for iOS using a Windows.

When installing Unity, don't forget to check "iOS deployment" and your Unity (on Windows) will be able to build an Xcode project.

Then, just transfer this Xcode project on a Mac with Xcode installed and you will be able to compile the project in order to be run on your iOS device.

Note : I just have to run chmod 777 MapFileParser.sh on the Mac folder containing the Xcode project before compiling with Xcode.

Answer 2

You can always use Unity Cloud to build you games. Their server will build it either from your own repo (git, svn, etc) or you can use their Collaborate feature by going into the unity editor -> services -> collaborate on.

Before getting to use Unity Cloud to build for iOS, you will need to generate your certificates just as you do when building using XCode. On the config page you can choose the version of unity you want the build to use, the version of xcode and if you want Unity to build your game on every push ( auto-build).

As far as I know when building for ios the ipa will have a ridiculous size. If you encounter this problem please refer to the following link: how to disable bitecode

Even though Unity allows us to use their system to build for any platform, in order to upload your *.ipa to app store you will need to do it through application loader.