Compile directly to /Applications from Xcode

Question

First off, I am not publishing this app to the app store and this is a jailbroken phone.

Anyone know how to compile apps directly to the /Applications folder with Xcode? Currently, I am having to compile to the /var/mobile/Applications folder and copying it to the /Applications folder on the device. It would be very convenient if the app could be compiled directly to the /Applications folder. Google doesn't seem to have any results on this topic.

Thanks in advance...

Answer 1

I don't have a jailbroken iPhone, so I can't say if this works, but presuming you can mount the iPhone as a volume on the Mac, you can add a custom script to the compilation in Xcode that does the copying for you.

Presuming that your iPhone is mounted in /mnt/My iPhone

You would add a custom build phase (Editor > Add Build Phase > Add Run Script Phase) and the script would do something like:

cd /var/mobile/Applications
cp myappfile "/mnt/My iPhone/Applications/"