Can I develop iOS Applications in Ubuntu without using a virtual mac OS system?

application-development 18.04 programming ios

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Unfortunately, you have to have Xcode installed on your machine and that's not possible on Ubuntu.

I have been looking for that for a while and I find these answers to be very informative (read them in order):

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Ahmad Darwesh

Developer with Dart and Flutter Framework for Android, iOS and web from more than 2 years. 5 years of experience with Java and Kotlin to build native Android Apps. Experience in the most popularity technologies like RxJava/RxAndroid, MVVM, MVP/MVC and more. I worked with databases like MySQL, Firebase, RoomDatabase, and I can manage REST APIs, I have worked on GraphQL data management. I worked with most popularity operating systems Linux, Mac and Windows. I have a wide background with Photoshop and Illustrator for good layouts to make best interfaces for Android, iOS, Web and Desktop softwares. I interested the latest technology to develop myself everyday.

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Ahmad Darwesh over 1 year

I'm a developer of Android applications and a java programmer. I'm learning IOS programming but I don't have mac OS; I use Ubuntu.

I want way to program IOS apps in Ubuntu without using a virtual machine (in vmware or VirtualBox) And without MacOS.

Can I do that in Ubuntu?
- Ashu_FalcoN about 6 years
  
  sorry... but you can't you gonna need xcode which is only for Mac systems.
- K7AAY over 5 years
  
  IIRC, you can write Swift code without the xcode IDE, as is substantiated by the above link to a possible duplicate answer.
Melebius over 5 years

If your answer is essentially a referral to another question, it would be better to flag this question as a duplicate of the other once you earned 15 reputation. If you have the reputation, don't forget to vote for the answer(s) there that you found useful!
Mostafa Medhat over 5 years

Thank you so much for clarification. I'll follow that from now on.
Nulik over 5 years

@Melebius, I upvoted his answer because it is very clear, and you don't have to read any more posts. So for me, it is a good answer and he deserves more than 15 reputation for it.
Mostafa Medhat over 5 years

Thank you @Nulik for your words. I hope I always be concise and explicit as much as possible.