Chapter 7. Migrating to iPad: We need more room
iPhones are great, but a bigger screen can be better.
When the iPad first launched, some panned it by saying that it was “just a big iPhone” (but uh, without the phone). In many ways it is, but that screen opens up many opportunities for better user interaction. More screen real estate means that reading is comfortable, web pages are easily viewed, and the device can act more like a book. Or a calendar. Or many other things that you already know how to use, like a menu...
DrinkMixer on the iPad
It happens all the time: a new device comes out and now your clients want to use it. iPad and iPhone apps have lots of overlap. iOS runs both devices, which are touch screen–based, and only one app is allowed to be visible at a time to users.
The big difference? The screen size!
Yes, they do.
Every iPhone app on the App Store will run on iPads right out of the box, but there’s a catch.
Do this!
Open up DrinkMixer in Xcode and run it in the iPad simulator. Then you can see what we’re dealing with.
Build and run...
The iPad simulator
The simulator will launch the ...
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