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Published inDec 2023
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Juan C. Catalan
Juan C. Catalan
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Juan C. Catalan

Juan C. Catalan is a software engineer with more than 18 years of professional experience. He started mobile development back in the days of iOS 3. Juan has worked as a professional iOS developer in many industries, including medical devices, financial services, real estate, document management, fleet tracking and industrial automation. He has contributed to more than 30 published apps in the App Store, some of them with millions of users. Juan gives back to the iOS development community with technical talks, mentoring developers, reviewing technical books and now as a book author. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Donna, where they spend time with their kids.
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Creating the macOS version of the app with a new target

Our iOS app showed a list of insects in one view and details regarding the selected insect in a separate view, because of the limited amount of space available on the iPhone screen. However, a Mac screen has a larger amount of screen space; therefore, we can display the list of insects on the left side of the screen and the details regarding the selected insect on the right side.

In this recipe, we will create a new target for our macOS app and share code and resources between the two targets, iOS and macOS. This approach is best suited if one of the following applies:

  • Your app has a considerably different user interface between the Mac and the iPhone.
  • Your app has a large legacy code base in UIKit and AppKit.
  • You have two separate apps and want to share code and resources between them.
  • You need to support versions of iOS older than iOS 16 and you can’t use the new multiplatform views...
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Published in: Dec 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805121732

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Juan C. Catalan

Juan C. Catalan is a software engineer with more than 18 years of professional experience. He started mobile development back in the days of iOS 3. Juan has worked as a professional iOS developer in many industries, including medical devices, financial services, real estate, document management, fleet tracking and industrial automation. He has contributed to more than 30 published apps in the App Store, some of them with millions of users. Juan gives back to the iOS development community with technical talks, mentoring developers, reviewing technical books and now as a book author. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Donna, where they spend time with their kids.
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