Chapter 18: Creating a macOS app with Catalyst

At WWDC 2019, Apple introduced Mac Catalyst to developers worldwide. With Mac Catalyst, developers could bring iPad apps into Mac quite easily. Catalyst allows iPad apps to be ported to Mac without much effort. This brings a whole new audience (Mac users) to iPad apps and expands the possibilities of the macOS ecosystem.

In this chapter, we are going to review the basics of Mac Catalyst. We will explore the new features introduced at WWDC 2020, and we will turn an iPad app into a Mac app using Catalyst. We will put into practice the two different ways to do this using Catalyst: Scale Interface to Match iPad and the new Optimize Interface for Mac option. We will compare the differences between them ...

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