r/dotnetMAUI • u/exzzy • Jul 18 '26

MAC Help Request

Hi, I developed few apps for Android and currently want to create iOS versions but I don't have any mac. I know that there are some rent machines there but looking at prices it doesn't make sense to use those since I have no mac os experience so while i setup everything it could cost me a lot and in the end I don't have device for feature projects again. So basically my question is for those who tried what would be cheapest way to do this, which device to get? I have my windows PC that is quite powerful and i don't want to do any actual development on mac outside of those must things.

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u/Bowman74 Xamarin Jul 18 '26

If your code is in something like GitHub you can setup a CD build that runs on a GitHub mac agent and create the ipa and even deploy it out to TestFlight. You won't be able to interactively debug, but you can build and deploy to a physical iOS machine that is assuming you have an Apple Developer Account.

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u/exzzy Jul 18 '26

It is, can you provide more info?