Creating the iOS native project from Codename app

[Angelo Maci]

Hello, I am porting an Android app to iOS with Codename One, in fact I am just experimenting, I do not know if it suits my needs.

One idea is to create the complete app with Codename One and then download the native iOS sources.

I mean, if Xcode sources are intellegible, I could continue from there, with a limited access to paid Codename Services just to have the application.

I would like to know if this makes sense. And what intellegibility have the iOS sources generated by Codename, I could download with paid access. 

How much would it be different from a standard Xcode app? What language is generated? And so on.

Thanks in advance

[Dave Dyer]

IOS sources are buildable but not very intellegable.  The only reasonable path forward is

to port your app to the codename1 simulator, and build both android and ios from there.

[Shai Almog]

The sources aren't designed for maintainability. They can be used for on-device-debugging but they aren't something you want to maintain.

The generated code is mostly in C with Objecive-C used for the API implmentation. There's a brief glimpse of this in the include source feature.

Here are a couple of other options:

Notice that our subscription can be activated/canceled freely you can purchase and cancel as you need

If you have a Mac you can use one of these approaches:

- You can also purchase an enterprise license as a one time thing. Download the offline builder and cancel the enterprise subscription. Your offline builder will keep working forever and acts as a shrinkwrap too

- You can try building from the open source project using our VM. All of this is open in our github project