From the course: iPadOS 13 Development Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Creating a cross-platform app

Creating a cross-platform app - iOS Tutorial

From the course: iPadOS 13 Development Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Creating a cross-platform app

- [Instructor] iPad OS 13 applications can easily be ported over to macOS through something called Mac Catalyst. To do that, you can take a simple application like this app that we created previously in the course, that has a navigation view and some items in it, and then you can specify that this app is supported on macOS. To do that, go over to your Project Settings and then under Deployment Info, so make sure you choose your target, go to the General tab, and under Deployment Info you're going to choose Mac. Note that this requires macOS 10.15. You're also going to see some information right here. So it says this target and its dependencies will link or embed only Mac compatible content and the security and app sandbox settings will be aligned with the iOS app. Source code will be unaffected and may still require changes. So hit Enable and now I can change my active scheme to My Mac and run the application. And…

Contents