PhoneGap or Appcelerator or Xamarin or React Native or VBox Mac

[xXImm0rtaLXx]

I am looking to get into app development. I have an iphone, for which i want to start developing apps. I do not have a mac, so i would need a different solution than to just download xcode and go.

 

I have done a bit of research, and these are the solutions i have come up with, and i would need help in deciding in which is the best one:

PhoneGap or Appcelerator or Xamarin or React Native or VBox Mac

I have already had a VBox Mac, but as i thought i wouldn't need it again (and because i ran out of space on my PC) i deleted it. Which out of the above (or a different one which i haven't listed) is the best option to go with?

[Mad153]

Depends.

Xamarin is for c#, not sure about the rest.

What language do you know?

[xXImm0rtaLXx]

17 minutes ago, Mad153 said:

Depends.

Xamarin is for c#, not sure about the rest.

What language do you know?

I believe the others are html/css/javascript.

I know C++, html, css, javascript and a bit of java. But the languages, to me, seem quite similar, so i think i could learn the others without much hassle.

[Mad153]

I have used xamarin and I really like it's intergration with visual studio. 

They are all good. Its what suits you best.

[duncannah]

You need access to a Mac to publish apps for iOS, no matter which tool you use. If you can't get one, I suggest either hackintoshing, or a virtual machine (this one requires a lot of power to be able to comfortably use)

 

It seems like there are workarounds for developing without a Mac, but these won't be as smooth and reliable as just using macOS instead

 

Another thing to note: Using macOS on non-Apple hardware (hackintosh, virtual machine) is against Apple's terms, so just keep this in mind if you're going with this route

[AgtLucas]

@xXImm0rtaLXx Just out of curiosity, why not start learning using the native platform for each platform, Swift/Objective-C for iOS and Kotlin/Java for Android?