There are a lot of people out there who don’t own an iPhone but are interested in using iPhone apps. They are attracted by its popularity, fame and what-not. If you are among those people who also happen to own a Mac, then we can show you how to run iPhone apps on a Macintosh computer. First of all, let me explain that Apple does not officially allow anyone to run their iPhone or iPad apps anywhere else, but they do provide an iPhone simulator for developers to test their apps. That simulator hasn’t been reversed-engineered yet, means that it is not capable of simulating IPA files (extension of iPhone applications) rather it can run those iPhone applications whose code is available on the web. Follow this guide step-by-step and you should be then able to run an iPhone app on a mac: 1) Register yourself for free to iPhone developers program. 2) Log into iPhone Developers Website 3) Download iPhone SDK with iPhone Simulator. 4) Run the downloaded installation package (.dmg file) 5) You are ready to run iPhone apps on your mac. 6) To test, download the source code of BonFire app. 7) Extract the contents of the downloaded .zip file Locate Bonfire.xcodeproj file in the extracted folder and run it. A window of the iPhone Development Envirenment “XCode” will open up. 9) Click on “Build and Go” in the XCode Window. iPhone simulator will automaticaly open with Bonfire running. Enojy your app on the Mac. If you have a PC and want to do the same, then you can search Google for “VirtualBox” and download the Mac simulator. You can then later install Mac OS on it and repeat the above procedure on it. That should result in the same. If you want to get your own iPhone app developed that suits your business requirements, then please feel free to contact us at 1SocialMedia. Simply request for your free quote by telling us a little about your project and we will contact your at our earliest with a proposal.
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