I’m working on an iOS game. I have access to mac, xcode, etc. The issue is that my artists and designers do not. I would like to give them an ipa and have them able to unzip, modify assets, and then rebuild and test the ipa without have to use a mac or xcode. The ipa doesn’t need to be installable on any iOS device other than their test device. Is this possible?
I read a little bit about codesign that comes with xcode, but that appears to only run on a mac – are there alternatives? It looks like Marmalade (and maybe UDK) provides this functionality (resigning on a pc) to their users, but I don’t want to use those engines.
Ultimately I am simply looking for a way for an artist or designer to test out their changes without requiring them to rebuild the ipa from xcode or a mac – any ideas? Is there a system for allowing artists or designers to add files to an iDevice that an app can access to self patch it’s assets?
The best solution I could come up with was to use Dropbox’s iOS API as a patch interface to download files into the document folder. Then whenever I go to load a file from my installed folders, I first check to see if the new asset exists within the patch folder and if so I use that file instead. A fairly basic concept that appears to be working surprisingly well for iOS devices.