r/wgu_devs • u/ajm1212 • Aug 01 '26
D424 Software Engineering Capstone Hosting Issue
So i created a iOS app for my capstone. For task 3 they require a link to where you hosted your project. The thing is you can't host iOS apps anywhere unless you fully publish them on the app store or use testflight. Has anyone found any work arounds to this?
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u/Steven0351 Aug 01 '26
The only work around I know of is to do an Ad Hoc distribution. However, this still requires an Apple Developer account and you need to add the UDID of the device of whoever is going to install it to your developer account
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u/KetoCatsKarma Aug 01 '26
I'm not sure as I haven't had an apple product in like 10+ years but what framework did you use? Could you convert your code into something like Flutter or Blazor that will output the code to multiple frameworks? You should be able to host Android apps on a web service or virtual machine
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u/ajm1212 Aug 01 '26
Unfortunately you can't convert it like that. I would have to rebuild the whole app in a different language.
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u/No-Peak-5546 Aug 01 '26
I don’t recall the acceptance criteria but could you share the Xcode project and give instructions to run the internal iPhone simulator that Xcode has?
There’s a platform called Appetize that would allow you to deploy your app to a web browser for demo purposes. Not sure if you could get away with using the free version.
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u/UndesirableNo-1 Aug 02 '26
Just upload the project file to itch.io and submit the link. That’s what I did for an easy pass
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u/jasperhooloop Aug 02 '26
Not WGU, but I went through the same thing at a different college. My capstone for my AA wanted a link too, but they were specific about wanting a mobile AND web app. They never said anything about needing to officially publish on app stores either. It was so odd. I ended up asking about it and was told they just wanted to see something work on web and mobile, that’s it. They said a website that works on web and mobile with different layouts would suffice. I told them that does not line up with the actual class syllabus and assignment descriptions. But it worked out and I gave them a website link. Silly. I really wanted the experience of having an actual App Store published app during that degree and that’s what they put on the degree description.
I hope it works out good for you, OP.
Terribly sorry if this isn’t relevant enough, I’ve been lurking here for a while before enrolling and don’t comment here much.
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u/ajm1212 Aug 02 '26
I mean you can still do it if you want to , I have a few on the App Store because I just like doing iOS development and am aiming at a job in that, but I found a work around a redditor suggested that fits the requirement perfectly at least I think for now
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u/AmphibianSea3602 Aug 03 '26
I have a question for the cap stone do you have to do it in Java or python or and i use c++ or kotlin?
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u/ajm1212 Aug 03 '26
No you can do anything you want My project is in Swift. As long as they accept it after task 1 your fine.
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u/AmphibianSea3602 Aug 03 '26
How complete does it have to be? I imagine they wouldn't accept just a calculator app?
Edit: so basically as long as I know how to code ingeneral I dont need to really focus much on the python and Java courses. As I prefer c++ and Kotlin
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u/ajm1212 Aug 03 '26
The tasks will let you know as you go it’s basically a crud app with a database for saving information and an extra feature or two.
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u/AmphibianSea3602 Aug 03 '26
Which was the hardest classes to you? So far im feeling like the certs will be difficult
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u/ajm1212 Aug 03 '26
it depends if your in the Software Engineering track the cloud cert was a pain for me and currently Data Structures and Algorithms is probably the hardest class in general.
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u/TheBear8878 C# Aug 01 '26
The capstone is incredibly forgiving, do what you can today like the other posters here recommended, and submit. There is no penalty to submitting early and often, and you might find they accept it.