Ios Apps Ported To Mac

For those unfamiliar marzipan is a project apple is working on that will allow mac computers to natively run uikit based ios apps.

Ios apps ported to mac. Open your project s general interface from the project navigator. The long term goal of this is a wave of ios software that s not currently available for macos getting ported over. Adopting these features can lead to performance improvements for many apps.

Metal on apple silicon supports the features of both intel based mac computers and ios devices. Open the app store. How to port ipad apps to mac using catalyst.

Downloading ios apps onto your mac is just as simple you might expect and there are two different ways to do so. A popup will ask if you want to enable mac support. If your app adopts metal features that are found only on intel based mac computers consider also adopting the ios specific features in your arm64 code.

Gameloft twitter and atlassian have already ported apps to macos. In the sidebar click your name and profile image. Slack developer felix rieseberg has created an app written entirely in javascript that replicates the 1991 mactinosh quadra experience and runs mac os 8 1.

These apps of course will be exclusive for apple silicon. Here are the really simple step by step instructions for porting ipad apps to mac. Bringing these four ios apps to mac served as a demonstration of project catalyst.

The ios apps will be available on mac app store starting this thursday november 12 when apple will release macos big sur to the public. You will need macos 10 15 or newer and xcode 11 or newer. The first method makes it possible for you to download compatible apps that are attached to your apple id after being downloaded on ios or ipados.