Running flutter app in real iOS device [Windows]

Question

I've been searching similar questions but ended up with concerns regarding the actual deployment. I have no problems deploying ios version because I'm using codemagic.

My question here is if it is possible to perform flutter run if I connected an iphone? Like how I use my android device and have USB Debugging enabled.

There are cases that some functions work in android but doesn't in iphone. So if it possible to run my app in an iphone and debug it, I'll just buy an iphone instead of mac since my windows machine is very capable.

Answer 1

Technically you have to own a Mac to build iOS apps. You can use external service to do something similar to what you want though. You will never be able to plug your iPhone to your computer and update your app but you can build an app and install it on your iphone.

For example with Appollo. In this case you have to install Appollo from your CLI

pip install appollo

Then configure Appollo to work with your developer account .

Finally, you can build an IPA file

appollo build start --build-type ad-hoc
appollo build ipa

and you can then install this IPA on your physical device.

Answer 2

No, unfortunately you cannot do this because the one who builds the application for iOS is the Mac machine, not the Windows device. So, the problem here is not in connecting the mobile to Windows, but rather in the reliability of building iOS on Mac devices only.