Good morning, everyone
I’m reaching out to gather some information.
Here’s the context: I work at a company where we develop AR & VR experiences. For AR projects, we usually outsource the export phase since we compile all the experiences into a single application. However, I now find myself needing to directly handle the AR experiences’ export process, as I need to provide executable demos of our experiences to clients for both Android and IOS. On the Android side, everything went smoothly without any issues.
But, I’m encountering problems with the IOS export. Could anyone provide me with a guide or a tutorial to follow? I’ve searched online but haven’t found anything useful! From what I understand, exporting for IOS requires a Mac machine: are there any alternative solutions? I’ve read about Mac in Cloud service online or a Virtual Mac, but I’m looking for something more precise and immediate.
There are some YouTube videos on the process as well:
YES, you are going to need a Mac to build for iOS. You can do a remote build from a Windows machine, but even then you need a Mac to “remote” into.
No, a virtual machine will not work, at least not in my experience.
There are some Cloud services out there that allow to “rent the machine”. also sometimes called “bare metal” What you need to make sure of is that you are getting an actual machine not a VM since a VM won’t work.
I found these folks, but I don’t know anything about them, There are most certainly others out there. https://flow.swiss/mac-bare-metal
In my opinion, the better way is to go buy a used M1 Mac Mini off eBay. Looks like you can find one for less than $500 USD.
Whatever way you go you should assume that you’ll spend several days getting this up and working, especially since this is your first time building for iOS.
ALSO, there are currently bugs in both 5.2 and 5.3 that prevent AR from properly working right on iOS.
There is a fix for the 5.2 bug, but no fix for the 5.3 bug.
