theos VS dragon

I am pretty sure everything you need is findable on https://theos.dev

i had been using “rootless=1” as per https://github.com/theos/theos/issues/685

The next step is to actually start making tweaks. Install a tool called Theos for your appropriate device. The installation wiki can be found here: https://github.com/theos/theos/wiki, please make sure to follow the appropriate platform instructions. After that, you are ready to start making tweaks, please follow a tweak development guide. (Here's one if you're lazy: https://icrazeios.com/kodey-tweak-guide/)

I followed this fix and that seemed to solve the permissions issue, but now I’m getting this.. lol

You can use Theos to build macOS, tvOS and iOS applications on Windows (through WSL). You won't have every Xcode functionality available to you, the most important one being the interface builder. However, it works quite well in my opinion and I have built a few applications with it.

You need to compile it with theos, if you don't want to do it yourself I can compile it for you later

This is why it's important to get apps from outside of the Apple App Store. Most free software app developers don't seem to distribute ipa files directly or publish via apt, instead opting to only publish source code as free software and then also publish on the Apple App Store. I tried but could never figure out how to compile an ipa file on iOS (Hopefully once this issue is resolve it will be easier.), and I don't have a Mac.

“A cross-platform build system for creating iOS, macOS, Linux, and Windows programs.” - Theos.dev. I’m not sure I’d say it replaces Xcode, because the two serve different purposes, but you don’t need Xcode for tweak development. The difference between the two is that theos is catered specifically for tweak development whereas Xcode is not. That and Xcode is platform specific, as you mentioned.

https://github.com/kritanta-ios-tweaks/Gravitation and you'll need to build it either by installing dragon and running dragon c b or by forking the repo, adding a workflow, and using the build action

You can build it with dragon

Note to do that you’ll have to install Dragon and then you can run dragon c b

I’m not sure it’s available anywhere. To build from source, you’ll need to install Dragon, clone the tweak’s repo, cd into it, and run dragon c b

To those of you who would like to learn about tweak development, you are not actually required to have a MacOS device like this guide incorrectly suggests. Theos (one primary set of tools to develop tweaks) is cross-platform, meaning it also supports Windows, iOS, and Linux. DragonBuild is another alternative.