Appendix B
Chapter Q&A
Chapter 1
Q & A
Q Why Xcode? Are there other options?
A In the early days of the Macintosh, there were plenty of different Mac development environments for different languages. When macOS X was released, these options went away, and Xcode became the standard. Are there other tools that let you build cross-platform applications that run on iOS, Android, Windows, and so on? Yes! But if you’ve used these cross-platform apps for more than a few minutes, you’ll recognize that these “bridge” tools rarely deliver an experience as elegant and smooth as software authored entirely in Apple’s Xcode. I suspect many new options for authoring Apple Vision Pro experiences will appear in the future, but if you want your creations ...
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