Running iOS Apps

[d4gli]

Hey,

is there already anything known about running iOS Apps on Mojave? Yes, I know, there's HomeKit and Stocks, but is there already a possibility to run iOS apps or something known how this'll work in future?

Regards,
d4gli

 

[fisherking]

the real answer is... not really possible. you're trying to translate a different language, apps that respond to touch... but, look here:

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iosapps/iphone-ipad-apps-mac-3512222/

 

[Bending Pixels]

If you watched the keynote from WWDC 2018, Tim Cook noted that Apple will provide the software coding tools to developers to port their iOS app's to macOS.

 

[d4gli]

Yep, has been announced @wwdc'18; furthermore it should run all ios apps soon. ATM it just runs news, stocks, homekit and another one from Apple. Think it'll need more adjustments by developers and the app needs to be related on iOS12 SDK for API compatibility with Mojave. The first runs with HomeKit on Mojave were ****. But we'll see soon.

 

[nglevin]

From what has been said about it, it's best thought of as not iOS emulation, but more like if you turned the iOS Simulator into macOS app infrastructure.

Carbon, not Rosetta. Exactly like that, really.

 

[d4gli]

However, my local food delivery store has no webinterface for shopping, just crappy iOS apps for iPhone & iPad; that sucks. Already tried with an Android Emulator and the Android .apk - but that's really slow to load. So hoping for this

 

[nglevin]

Being blunt; you'd have to ask the store's iOS developers to re-compile that crappy app for Mojave + 1. I'm guessing Mojave + 1, since Mojave's still the test run for first party apps.

It won't "just run" all iOS apps. You need those developers to take the toolkit to rebuild the apps for Mac, and address compatibility issues as they come. Like Carbon.