Developing an app for multiple platforms imposes higher demands on our development machine. One reason for this is that we often want to run one or multiple simulators or emulators on our development machine. Different platforms also have different requirements with regard to what is needed to begin development. Regardless of whether we use macOS or Windows, Visual Studio will be our integrated development environment (IDE). There are several versions of Visual Studio, including the free community edition. Go to https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/ to compare the available versions. The following list is a summary of what we need to begin development for each platform:
- iOS: To develop an app for iOS, we need a Macintosh (Mac) device. This could either be the machine that we are developing on or a machine on our network, if we are using one. The reason we need to connect to a Mac is that we need to use Xcode to compile and debug an app. Xcode also provides...
