I have a developer account now, and I can download Xcode 5. But soon I won't need this account anymore, and I may get a new (organization type) account. My question is, will I be able to use my new organization account to write programs with Xcode 5 I downloaded previously? And also submit possibly with this new account? Thanks.
1 Answer
Yes.
If you submit the app to the App Store using your first account, then you can use iTunes Connect App Transfer to transfer it to a new account.
If you work on the app without submitting it to the App Store, you can change account and there will be no problems (you will have to change the App ID & provisioning profiles if you obtained these with the old account).
A downloaded copy of Xcode is not linked to an account, so you can use Xcode with any account, or no account.
The limitations come with the documentation - pre-release documentation will not be available in Xcode if you don't link an account, however Xcode will still work fine without the documentation. Once you add a new account, the documentation will download and be accessible. Documentation downloaded with your current developer account will not need to be re-downloaded if you switch account.
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grgarside, thanks, I just means something slightly different, I will explain what now. Say I have developer account X now. I download Xcode 5 and start working on some application now (I am not sure if I must supply my account name). Then afterwards, I change developer account. Will I be able to continue working on this same application with the new account? Thanks.– user56123Aug 30, 2013 at 6:47
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yes, so the idea is I will have Xcode 5 with some developer account (say X) that I won't need in future. So my question is basically should I start working on my new application now, with this old (X) account? (with the possibility to change it later to new account. I won't submit the app with the old account).– user56123Aug 30, 2013 at 7:09
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@user2568508 Yes, you can. When I was developing my first iOS app, I developed with a free account, then when the time came to submit to the App Store, I purchased a developer account and updated my bundle identifier, and everything worked fine.– grg ♦Aug 30, 2013 at 7:11