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Mastering iOS 14 Programming - Fourth Edition

By : Mario Eguiluz Alebicto, Chris Barker, Donny Wals
Book Image

Mastering iOS 14 Programming - Fourth Edition

By: Mario Eguiluz Alebicto, Chris Barker, Donny Wals

Overview of this book

Mastering iOS 14 development isn’t a straightforward task, but this book can help you do just that. With the help of Swift 5.3, you’ll not only learn how to program for iOS 14 but also be able to write efficient, readable, and maintainable Swift code that reflects industry best practices. This updated fourth edition of the iOS 14 book will help you to build apps and get to grips with real-world app development flow. You’ll find detailed background information and practical examples that will help you get hands-on with using iOS 14's new features. The book also contains examples that highlight the language changes in Swift 5.3. As you advance through the chapters, you'll see how to apply Dark Mode to your app, understand lists and tables, and use animations effectively. You’ll then create your code using generics, protocols, and extensions and focus on using Core Data, before progressing to perform network calls and update your storage and UI with the help of sample projects. Toward the end, you'll make your apps smarter using machine learning, streamline the flow of your code with the Combine framework, and amaze users by using Vision framework and ARKit 4.0 features. By the end of this iOS development book, you’ll be able to build apps that harness advanced techniques and make the best use of iOS 14’s features.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

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 and the pros and cons of both approaches.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Discovering Mac Catalyst
  • Exploring new Mac Catalyst features
  • Building your first Mac Catalyst app

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