Damn, I love people under article’s comment keep ignoring that the Alternative App Store he’s building, AltStore is already able to install on your iPhone/iOS for years via sideloading: faq.altstore.io
I personally used a forked version of it tho so that it can renew natively on iPhone called SideStore
I was worried that you would be giving dev access to a remote server to achieve that, but they actually use a fucked up wireguard tunnel to do fake loopback to sort of psuedo-host the AltServer locally. Super cool
When I saw this, I was like “why did Riley not release Delta and instead released GBA4iOS under a different name?”
Appearently because the release wasn’t authorised by Riley and they haven’t provided the source code per GPLv2 demands anyways; clearly against its licensing. Scummy move.
Yeah, and they’ve done a shitty job of it too. Downloaded it out of interest and ran Super Mario Land. It looks like crap and it’s full of ads that you can’t pay to remove.
Also, while it shows up when I search, it’s not in my App Library at all, which is odd.
Apple sucks in a lot of ways as a company, but I do find it hilarious that Nintendo has zero chance of winning any legal battle to get these taken down, their out of their legal weight class
If you think Apple is going to carry water for any of its developers, I want to know what drugs you're on so I can go to the same alternate dimension that you ended up in.
You’re right, remember tho that apple was sued by samsung and google at approximately same time and they all still standing, so nintendo ain’t gonna win this, they just gonna brawl a little
Of course. Apple already has had emulators for iOS for years, it’s how most devs do mobile development. I use an iPhone and iPad emulator at work to occasionally run our app to test it, it’s way nicer than running on an actual iPhone or iPad (I don’t have either anyway).
Probably. Go to developer.apple.com. You want to download Xcode and install the iOS SDK through XCode. You may need to make (free tier) Apple Developer Account before it lets you download.
Note that you can’t install apps from the iOS App Store on the iOS simulator; only a handful of system apps and anything you build for the simulator yourself.
Apple already has had emulators for iOS for years, it’s how most devs do mobile development.
AFAIK Apple does not release an iPhone emulator to the public. There is one third party emulator I’m aware of but that’s mainly intended for security research and not general development.
it’s way nicer than running on an actual iPhone or iPad (I don’t have either anyway).
Also for anything UI related. You want to test how it actually feels to use, e.g. if you can reach the UI elements with one hand. Using it with a mouse on a monitor just doesn’t give you a good sense of that. Especially if your UI involves gestures.
Yes, that’s what I mean. It’s a simulator, not an emulator. It does not work exactly like a real device. For simple stuff, sure, but if you dive below the surface even a little it’s very different.
One example is anything to do with the GPU / Metal. It has a very different set of capabilities and limitations than actual iOS hardware.
An Android rom that emulate the iPhone? It would emulate Android and in either constellation your comment does not make any sense. No one assumed Apple to emulate Android OS.
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