Affordable MacBook for building a Flutter application (lemmy.ml)

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Hi guys,

I'm currently building a mobile application using Flutter. Until now my target platform was Android but I'd like to build and publish it for iOS as well. For this I need access to macOS environment, both to build the application and to test it in iOS Simulator. Please note that I don't intend to actually develop on this machine.

I'm considering a few options like running macOS VM on my machine (no luck so far) or using some kind of cloud VM. The most obvious option is to just buy a Mac of course. However, I really don't want to spend a lot on this and Apple computers aren't exactly known for being affordable. Here's my question: which MacBook would you recommend to buy used just for the purposes I listed above?

I tried googling this of course but it's really hard for me to find any useful advice. Please note that I have no knowledge about Apple devices and ecosystem whatsoever, I never used any of them.

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[-] loo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I believe you can build and publish IOS apps using GitHub Actions without requiring a Mac. Take a look at this article. I don't have much experience with building apps for IOS, so I could be wrong. Hope this helps.

[-] sajran@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You're right. Just building and publishing is definitely possible without owning a Mac. The thing is, I don't have an iPhone too and I need to see my app in action. Thank you for the answer tho!

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