This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/18176818-your-first-ios-and-swiftui-app-polishing-the-app/lessons/42
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/18176818-your-first-ios-and-swiftui-app-polishing-the-app/lessons/42
This course was great! I had done the original Bull’s Eye but then stepped away from SwiftUI for a while and used your course to get restarted. You have added several new insights that helped me and I am comfortable in SwiftUI again. Make’s me glad I just re-upped my membership!
One thing I did for fun is create BullseyeMac to build and run on my iMac. I created a new macOS App project in Xcode and directly copied all my iOS Bullseye sources, targeted my Mac instead of an iPhone and had to make the following changes:
- Redid the appIcon Assets – simply copying the proper sized .png files to the various devices.
- Eliminated the verticalSizeClass and horizontalSizeClass environment work in LeaderBoardViews.swift as they aren’t available in macOS. (People don’t rotate their fixed screens very often!)
- Had to do a lot of work with buttons as they are quite different between iOS and macOS. I found a fix that in 30 lines of code makes a niceButton() method as a View extension changing the ButtonStyle. Otherwise, the Buttons were not placed nicely in the various stack containers and were not usable.
- In ContentView I added a .frame to BackgroundView with minWidth: 300.0, minHeight: 200.0 or the app launched very tiny.
Now Bull’s Eye works beautifully on my Built-in Retina Display up to 4096 x 2304 pixels.
That’s awesome that you ported it to the Mac! Congrats and thanks for sharing what you learned with everyone else. I’m glad you enjoyed the course! :]
High five! 