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Surprisingly, it's very easy. This works like a charm: https://github.com/xtool-org/xtool
You do not need to upload to TestFlight or the App Store; you can just install the app locally to your iPhone via usb -- even from Linux!
When in doubt, just ask your coding agent of choice to help you create and upload a Hello World iOS app. It's really easy.
By using "Claude Code"* * and giving Anthropic all your secrets, env vars, certificates and your source code to them.
Doesn't that mean you need to distribute the app (TestFlight) before you can preview your app? How do you test locally without the simulators?
For a macOS app you don't need a simulator. For an iPhone app I've seen Claude Code launch the simulator without me needing to open Xcode.
Kind of fun, you can develop iOS and Android both without a build step and without a Mac even.
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holy hell $299/app is wild
One time?! That's amazing.
The most useful one is a little weather sparkline to show local temperature forecasts. Useful every day.
This is cool but also makes me worried about the tendency with llms for all of us to make bespoke solutions rather than building a better community tool or extending an existing tool to solve the problem. fastlane exists to solve exactly this problem in the mobile space.
Bespoke solutions are better in many cases. They do exact things required for the project without taking extra dependency. Reducing dependencies is beneficial, because dependencies require management. So with llms economy of taking dependency shifted.