Releasing your app on iOS
Releasing on Apple iOS is more complex when compared to Android. Although you can test on your own device when developing, making an app public requires you to have a valid Apple Developer account with the ability to publish on the App Store, as it’s the only supported app publishing channel.
Like Android and the configuration changes we had to make in AndroidManifest.xml
, iOS has a similar configuration file that is used by the iOS build tool, Xcode.
What is Xcode?
Xcode is an IDE that is only available on macOS and is used for the development of native iOS apps. You can download it from the Apple App Store for free. It is used by Flutter to package your app code ready for release on the App Store.
iOS apps can only be built on a Mac computer, so if you are a Windows or Linux user, you will either need to invest in a Mac or get a virtual machine you can use.
App Store Connect
In Android, we did not need to configure anything in the...