iPadOS 15 Allows You to Build iPhone and iPad Apps on an iPad

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced that iPadOS 15 features the ability to build iPhone and iPad apps directly on the iPad in the Swift Playgrounds app.

In iPadOS 15, Swift Playgrounds features the ability to create iPhone and iPad apps using Swift UI. Swift Playgrounds app project packages can also be opened and edited in Xcode on a Mac, giving users the option to develop apps across the iPad and Mac.

Code is immediately reflected in the live preview when building apps, and users can run their apps full screen to test them out. Created apps can be submitted to the App Store directly in Swift Playgrounds.

Article Link: iPadOS 15 Allows You to Build iPhone and iPad Apps on an iPad

 

[Serban55]

with this and full photoshop coming in the fall its a start

 

[ScreenSavers]

This is likely to be a way easier learning curve than Xcode. Super exciting.

 

[RavynArcadia]

I'm hoping that Apple will silently release their pro apps for the ipad pro. Not sure if it will happen but who knows.

 

[_Spinn_]

This is a very exciting development.

 

[icymountain]

"features the ability to build iPhone and iPad apps directly on an iPad"
-> Great start, hope going up...

"in Swift Playgrounds"
-> Big, big, big disappointment... 😕

 

[Wackery]

No second monitor support

 

[smaffei]

Almost certain that this will require an M1 iPad.

 

[Serban55]

No second monitor support

it has just 1 thunderbolt port

 

[alecgold]

Doesn’t look like new MacBook Pro’s will be announce?!
But I do hope my 2018 iPad Pro will support all these new features.
Really makes the iPad a bit more production and a bit less just consumption.

 

[Slartibart]

Almost certain that this will require an M1 iPad.

Why should it?

 

[acidman91]

Wow... not even a mention of 16GB support, or FCP. What a let down... Disappointed, but not surprised...

 

[Sebosz]

Boy oh boy, was I right 😂

 

[Ubuntu]

This is likely to be a way easier learning curve than Xcode. Super exciting.

I hope so but given that Swift Playgrounds on Mac was pretty damn confusing to work with I’m skeptical. Still, excited to see this.

 

[Menneisyys2]

That is, building etc. "legacy" Swift / Obj-C apps (99,999% of the current codebase) is impossible.

 

[falainber]

All it is going to achieve is to generate more crappy apps.

 

[Slartibart]

Boy oh boy, was I right 😂 View attachment 1788267

I am so sorry that your internet connection broke down… hope you can catch up when it’s running again. There is is definitively more. 😎

 

[alecgold]

Oooh, no mac hardware :-(

 

[Sebosz]

I am so sorry that your internet connection broke down… hope you can catch up when it’s running again. There is is definitivery more. 😎

Yeah I wish it was. Lets be honest, only small percentage of iPad Pro users will care about Swift Playground...

 

[alecgold]

Yeah I wish it was. Lets be honest, only small percentage of iPad Pro users will care about Swift Playground...

Yeah, but a large percentage of that small percentage is yelping on these forums A LOT
😝

 

[TiggrToo]

Yeah I wish it was. Lets be honest, only small percentage of iPad Pro users will care about Swift Playground...

So, better multi tasking and the new continuity features are nothing?

You were wrong. Man up and admit it.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

"features the ability to build iPhone and iPad apps directly on an iPad"
-> Great start, hope going up...

"in Swift Playgrounds"
-> Big, big, big disappointment... 😕

I think Swift playground is going to be used to test how development can work on iPad before full fledged Xcode is introduced.

 

[Slartibart]

Yeah I wish it was. Lets be honest, only small percentage of iPad Pro users will care about Swift Playground...

You. Can. Write. Apps. And. Deploy. Them. Directly. On. iPadOS 15.

I’ll give you that this means that there will be most likely a flood of “make a fart noise when connecting lightning or usb peripherals”-apps, but otherwise... I don’t think that you have to feel left out with your Air 😎

EDIT: @TiggrToo above is right.

 

[AdonisSMU]

I find Swift playgrounds is difficult to use.

 

[macduke]

I had a hunch they would allow this first before bringing full Xcode. All likes to do things in steps to ensure a good experience.