Add support for running the iOS app on macOS without the simulator #145908
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I always run my app like this, I agree on all the benefits, especially plugins like video/webview.
Then I can hot reload/hot restart by pressing r / R in my terminal. Nothing automatic on save in VSCode or debugger. But I don't really bother with those anyways. Perhaps it is possible to "attach" from VSCode, but I've never tried. If I remember right, the decision by Flutter top brass was not to add it as a "device" to run directly to avoid confusion (to be honest, it is quite a confusing feature, without proper official naming). See #84411. Also this feature seems to be buggy from Apple. Sometimes the app freezes for a few seconds, I checked in Instruments, it has some hang inside UIKit in input event processing. Or also, after I upgraded to macOS 14.4, my app can't even launch any more, I have to temporarily change the bundle ID. |
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Closing as a duplicate of #125741. |
FYI, nothing changes about the build process when using this mode, so adding this device target would not help with any build issues. |
The native code for the plugins on the macOS might be different, plus it did for me I can't use firebase crashlytics on a new blank project using the macOS target And nothing helped fixing this issue and it has been for a while + I'm not the only one |
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First of all I'm not sure if this a duplicated issue or can't be supported by flutter side, Xcode support this feature of running the the
iOSapp on macOS directly and the native code like request notifications permissions of iOS will run as if it was on macOS without having to have themacOSproject at allI can run the iOS project on macOS without any issues using Xcode by open the iOS native platform project which will be created by
flutter create . --platforms=iOSbut features like hot reload and hot restart is not available, I'm wondering if flutter can add support for running and show it in the list of available devices:Proposal
It would be really nice if we can launch the iOS app on macOS using Flutter CLI as almost macOS app without the simulator or having to sign and maintain a different platform project
All what is missing the hot reload and hot restart features and add it to the list of devices in Flutter CLI which will affect both Android Studio and VS Code
Yes it can't replace platform native macOS project but there is a lot of flutter plugins that still doesn't have good support for macOS as the iOS and Android and I'm having build issues all the time with CocoaPods
I was able to launch my iOS app on macOS and the native functions like requesting the notifications permission on the iOS app will delegate to the macOS function
I'm not sure if this is already available or it's just a simple PR or require a lot of changes in order to support it
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