Chapter 10Taking Advantage of Large Screens

We’ve got a pretty nifty Twitter app at this point, one that lets us scroll through tweets, navigate into a detailed view of a tweet, and then drill down to details about the account that sent it. It’s pretty nice on an iPhone.

But, come to think of it, we haven’t tried running it on an iPad. And we did make it a universal app in the beginning. So let’s see what that looks like. Use the scheme selector in Xcode’s toolbar to change to a model of iPad—we often use iPad 2, because as a non-Retina device it fits on the Mac screen—and run the app. In landscape, it looks like this:

images/src/BigScreens/ipad-table-landscape.png

It’s…OK. Kind of. It’s ...

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