iOS Dev and Deployment Tip

[Stephen MacLean]

Hi All,

With iOS 10 now out and macOS 10.12 coming next week, I expect to see a bunch of emails with issues about deployment problems and I’d like to share what I do to try and keep everything sane and working.

I use VM’s Fusion and build a VM for each version of the OS, install the appropriate version of Xcode and LC and then keep it there. That includes version of externals like mergEXT for that version of iOS and LC. Sort of like time machine for development, each one frozen in time.

I already have my 10.11 VM set to support iOS 9, have one setup for 10.12 and will do my testing there before I update anything on my main machine.

This setup has saved me more than once when I jumped the gun and updated something before all is ready. It also gives me a chance to install OS beta’s to see how LC apps preform.

Hope this helps someone else... If you have a different solution that works for you, please share!

Best,

Steve MacLean