无需开发人员帐户即可在本地构建iOS应用

Question

I'm just trying out iOS development and no way willing to pay $99 to try out something. I have a running project that works on android and I wanted to see how it looks on iPhone but it seems I'm stuck on all sides.

First of all, I've installed Sidekick and setup Nativescript on the mac and tns doctor reports no issues (I originally made the project on Windows with Android phone). Now I'm trying to do a local build but I get an error:

[18-10-19 22:49:00.401] Error detected during LiveSync on 9991865793b34ae30366571031b6c251590c222a for /Users/vipulk/Documents/YO. Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/Users/vipulk/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/'

I think this is related to certificates and provisioning profiles. I thought you didn't needed those for local builds. Anyways, The sidekick's Auto Generate is of no use either as it doesn't work with 2FA accounts .

I tried to use this guide to create these files manually. I created the csr file but step 6 asks you to go to this page which asks you to use your development program. Again, don't have that.

The cloud build also needs certificates.

What do I do?

Answer 1

The NativeScript Book has two chapters at the end on iOS deployment, and they address your question, though they don't use sidekick. But, hey, nothing wrong with the good old {N} CLI.