Shipping a Mac Catalyst App: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

PSPDFKit ported PDF Viewer, a project with over 2 MLOC and lots of UIKit code to the Mac via Catalyst. Having played with "Marzipan" in 2018, the team was able to port their huge app in a relative short timeframe. Learn what you have to do after checking the [X] Mac checkbox, how far Catalyst can be pushed, how it interacts with AppKit, and how to work around the worst bugs.

We'll show real code, a selection of r̵a̵d̵a̵r̵ Feedback Assistant items, strategies to keep code branching low, and some design alterations that were necessary to make it feel more at home on the Mac.

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Advanced. We hack!

Lernziele

Learn how to port a large, complex project to Mac via Catalyst.

 

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Peter  Steinberger
Peter Steinberger makes iOS apps that are likeable. He loves to rant on startups. Peter is the Developer of PSPDFKit, a drop-in-ready framework that helps in almost every aspect of PDF-rendering on iOS.

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