title: PhoneGap, PhoneGap Build and iOS - Mac needed?
body: <p>firstly I have reviewed previous similar questions, but there were either old and or contradictory in their answers, so I’m asking what is the current (May ’14) requirements to build/test/deploy iPhone/iPad apps?</p>
  
  <p>Longer version – I’ve been asked by a client to develop an app for iOS/Android and as I’m completely new to this I was hoping to use PhoneGap to use my existing web skills to develop the apps. I currently just own an Android phone so installed the Android SDK and PhoneGap onto Ubuntu (everything download this week inc Ubuntu so all current versions) and eventually got the PhoneGap “hello world” example to run on the emulator and actual phone (not via play store, just local copy of APK file)</p>
  
  <p>I’ve found many guides here and elsewhere detailing how you can publish to App Store using a PC (or Ubuntu I assume) – mostly talking about certs etc. But, from my experience of setting up my tools to build my first hello world app, PhoneGap requires the SDKs for each device you target, so would thus require the Apple SDK to enable you to run an emulator? Or can you emulate an iPhone on Ubuntu?  </p>
  
  <p>So it seems to me, that even thought you can deploy to the  App Store without a Mac, you will need one during development to run the emulator – is this correct or what am I missing?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>