[flax]

Would this theoretically allow a Flutter app developer to build and deploy an ios app from Linux? God, I hope so.

[candiddevmike]

It technically violates the Apple Developer Agreement AFAIK, but that seems like yet another lawsuit waiting to happen IMO.

[ronsor]

Apple won't do anything right now as they're certainly afraid the courts* will slap them hard.

*Both US and EU now

[petabyt]

People have been doing hackintoshes and macos VMs for years... And apple hasn't really done anything. So I doubt this tool will provoke them.

[_blk]

Yeah weird world. When Gates bundles IE that no one wants it's an abuse of power but when Jobs shoves his apples down your throat just to (try to) publish for their platform it's all OK.. Oh, or was that the lawsuit waiting to happen? ;)

[notpushkin]

I believe it allows usage on “Apple-branded computers”, so building iOS apps with xtool on Asahi is probably legit.

But yeah, I would probably use this for testing only, and do actual releases from macOS proper.

[tgma]

IIRC it is only a potential issue if the host machine isn't made by Apple. You can install Linux on a Mac and use this.

IANAL yada yada.

[nar001]

Does it? You still need to install Xcode for the iOS SDK, so they're not really doing anything wrong?

[loic-sharma]

This project helps but isn’t enough alone:

1. Dart can’t cross-compile from Linux to iOS yet. You could use Dart’s interpreter instead, but that’d significantly regress performance.

2. Flutter iOS projects use the Xcode project format, you’d need to migrate that to xtool’s project format

3. Flutter hasn’t finished migrating its plugin ecosystem from CocoaPods to SwiftPM - any plugin that hasn’t migrated to SwiftPM yet likely won’t work with xtool.

[Cloudef]

Afaik its already possible with darling. Nixpkgs also has xcbuild replacement, but not sure if it can handle codesigning.

[gman83]

Just use something like CodeMagic, I wouldn't risk getting your Apple account banned.