Xamarin iOS App deployment

Question

The docs from Xamarin aren't explicit as to where an iOS device needs to be attached. I'm using VS to build a Xamarin app through a remote Mac Builder (connected via VPN) but my iphone is attached to my PC with Visual Studio. Its completely unclear as to whether or not you can deploy a compiled to from the PC you're running Visual Studio on or whether the iOS device needs to be USB'd to the remote Mac running the build.

Answer 1

Even though Xamarin offers developers the way to use C# creating native iOS applications, we also need to pair to a Mac which is required for compiling native iOS applications. So of course if you want to deploy on a real device, you need to connect it to the Mac.

It seems you have already known how to create a provisioning profile. This documentation tells you how to pair to a Mac to deploy applications. Also before doing that you also need to complete the following steps:

• On a Windows machine, install Visual Studio 2017
• On a Mac, install Xcode and Visual Studio for Mac