Twitter: @jamesthomson. The developer of PCalc for iOS and the Mac and Dice. About a year ago, you wrote that to adopt Mac Catalyst for PCalc you would have to almost entirely rewrite the app’s UI. Has that changed? If so, how? The new version of PCalc on the Mac is still a traditional AppKit...
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GameClub, which has brought a large catalog of games that had left the App Store back to life, is expanding their offerings by bringing classic PC games to iOS starting with Chook & Sosgig. (Link) Netflix, YouTube, Disney+, Apple TV, Twitch, and Spotify integration are all coming to the Sony PS5 when it launches in...
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Behind the Scenes of the iOS and iPadOS 14 Review’s 3D Graphics and Animation by Brian King
Brian: Every time we see an iPhone or iPad in an illustration, any given UI element on that device is an image inside a display inside an image in the window of your own display. Sometimes, those pictures of displays are sitting next to other pictures of displays. With so much attention in iOS 14...
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Interview: Markus Müller-Simhofer
Twitter: @MullerSimhofer. Developer of MindNode and founder of IdeasOnCanvas. What has been the most challenging change to Apple’s OSes for you to deal with in updating MindNode? There are two new security enhancements in iOS 14 that took a surprising amount of time to adapt to. One change is related to querying user-installed fonts and...