I signed up as an iOS developer just under one year ago, and its expiration is closing in fast.
I have not been able to allocate a lot of free time for developing on iOS, and I am wondering if I will still be able to do testing if I let my account expire.
**What will I lose the ability to do once my account expires?**
I want to be able to write new Xcode projects, and compile them for ARM, and execute them on my (currently provisioned) devices. My devices are currently jailbroken and will remain so for the forseeable future (seeing as how stable iOS6 is, I'll be quite happy sticking with targeting iOS6), so this is possibly a moot point for me, but $99 is honestly not a lot of money if it saves me headaches trying to hack stuff to get it to work. I jailbreak not for doing nefarious things but for gaining access to productivity enhancing tweaks to iOS on my devices. Whaddayaknow, being able to execute unsigned apps falls under that category as far as I'm concerned.
My questions are pretty concrete though. Do I lose the ability to sign new code once the account expires, or may I continue do so with the certificate that I have now? If it refuses to sign new code, will Xcode still allow me to compile it? I guess since I am jailbroken I only really worry about the ability to use the Xcode tools. So I'll be happy if I will be able to compile and attach the debugger (even if it means I have to do something special to get past the step of deploying to the device itself).
You might notice that the real question I'm attempting to answer is whether or not I wasted $99. The reasoning is that if all I have to do is download a Cydia package or two and flip a setting or two in Xcode to save $99 a year, that's a win. But if I have to jump through a large number of hoops to hack around the obstacles (and/or still leave a bunch of footwork to wrap up once I do finally get ready for release), it's not. Hopefully someone can shed light on this.
And to cover one last angle, I did participate for a short period on the apple dev forums, but people were generally extremely cynical and argumentative (unlike StackOverflow) so there's hardly any value I see in that. The support is rate-limited which sucks but I guess the quality of support could be good.
Thanks
I have not been able to allocate a lot of free time for developing on iOS, and I am wondering if I will still be able to do testing if I let my account expire.
**What will I lose the ability to do once my account expires?**
I want to be able to write new Xcode projects, and compile them for ARM, and execute them on my (currently provisioned) devices. My devices are currently jailbroken and will remain so for the forseeable future (seeing as how stable iOS6 is, I'll be quite happy sticking with targeting iOS6), so this is possibly a moot point for me, but $99 is honestly not a lot of money if it saves me headaches trying to hack stuff to get it to work. I jailbreak not for doing nefarious things but for gaining access to productivity enhancing tweaks to iOS on my devices. Whaddayaknow, being able to execute unsigned apps falls under that category as far as I'm concerned.
My questions are pretty concrete though. Do I lose the ability to sign new code once the account expires, or may I continue do so with the certificate that I have now? If it refuses to sign new code, will Xcode still allow me to compile it? I guess since I am jailbroken I only really worry about the ability to use the Xcode tools. So I'll be happy if I will be able to compile and attach the debugger (even if it means I have to do something special to get past the step of deploying to the device itself).
You might notice that the real question I'm attempting to answer is whether or not I wasted $99. The reasoning is that if all I have to do is download a Cydia package or two and flip a setting or two in Xcode to save $99 a year, that's a win. But if I have to jump through a large number of hoops to hack around the obstacles (and/or still leave a bunch of footwork to wrap up once I do finally get ready for release), it's not. Hopefully someone can shed light on this.
And to cover one last angle, I did participate for a short period on the apple dev forums, but people were generally extremely cynical and argumentative (unlike StackOverflow) so there's hardly any value I see in that. The support is rate-limited which sucks but I guess the quality of support could be good.
Thanks
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