Xcode functioning and membership necessity

I just downloaded Xcode for Objective C self-learning, I have logged-in my apple ID in Xcode.



What confused me is there seems constrain for editing due to identifiers missing, messages as below:




If I understand correctly, the identifier exists just for people who has registered for the $99 yearly developer membership. Does it mean I cannot learn and testify objective C through Xcode if I don't pay for it?

I am tad confused if I pay for the membership but it takes me years to trial and error to successfully publish the application and I will have to pay for years for the membership, then would be a big amount.

And Xcode keeps saying that my Apple account is not on development team but I have already registered for developer yet pay for $99 for the membership.




^ It just leads me to pay for the membership with my every click to 'fix issue'...

If I have mistaken the above idea, how can I use Xcode with full functions?

Please forgive my innocence for the structure, I am a total newbie to programming and application. Your advices will be much appreciated!

You can use Xcode to do all development without paying the yearly membership. Without the membership, you can only test your application on the simulator.

To test on a real device, you need a deployment profile which is only available once you become a paying developer.

Your issues with the Storyboard has NOTHING to do with your membership, that's a coding error. You might want to get a book or two that teach you how to program in iOS and go from there..

Thank you Raz0rEdge. This mist bothering me for days has now been cleared!

Raz0rEdge said:

You can use Xcode to do all development without paying the yearly membership. Without the membership, you can only test your application on the simulator.

To test on a real device, you need a deployment profile which is only available once you become a paying developer.

Your issues with the Storyboard has NOTHING to do with your membership, that's a coding error. You might want to get a book or two that teach you how to program in iOS and go from there..

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Here comes a similar situation:

the project don't have bugs/coding errors but the building process kept failing, just showed up the message regarding certificate. Can it run again without paying for the development team?