Apple Brings Apple Developer App to Mac Ahead of WWDC

[Daku93]

Is the text blurry for anyone else on a non retina display?

 

[zonk44]

Is the text blurry for anyone else on a non retina display?

Yes it is. It looks horrible.

 

[frou]

I remember reading something along the lines of ALL Catalyst apps are being displayed on Mac at 70% scale by default, for some reason.

In this (probably rushed) Developer.app, the text in the main view (i.e. not the sidebar) certainly looks physically smaller than it should be.

 

[DaveMcM76]

Is the text blurry for anyone else on a non retina display?

To be fair it isn't exactly super crisp even on a retina display, but I just plugged my MacBook Pro into my external 1080 monitor to compare and it is nasty on the external display!

 

[derbothaus]

Nope. Catalina only. Eff off.

 

[slammer0]

You can't even watch videos in fullscreen (without app borders) 🤦‍♂️

You can but you have to select View->Hide Toolbar. It is bad UX but better than nothing.

 

[throAU]

Nope. Catalina only. Eff off.

if you’re a developer and not keeping up then you’re doing it wrong

 

[bbeagle]

The "D" in WWDC is for "Developers". It's reasonable to expect your devs to stay abreast of your release cycle, and it's just bad messaging to tell your devs "we're going to pander to people who want to stay on an old version of the OS because we think we're bad at this, but you guys should really stay on the cutting edge".

I have 2 Macs in my office. One is updated to the latest OS and is a dual-screen for development. I have a 3rd screen on a separate Mac which is older Mac that can't go past High Sierra. It's basically used for documentation, videos, email.

I would love to develop on my main Mac while watching the keynotes on my 2nd older mac. But I'm not allowed to since I can't use the Developer app.

My 4th screen is an AppleTV. I found that I _CAN_ use this as the Developer App is available on the Apple TV.