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App development on iPad

In the last year, I’ve gone all-in on building apps using an iPad. I’ve never met another Playgrounds developer, and a lot of the community are surprised this is even possible! This post should clear up what is and isn’t possible when it comes to app development on iPad, and I hope to encourage others to give this a try too! I use my iPad hooked up to a keyboard, mouse, and monitor for most serious work, with both screens set to More Space.

I fully expect Apple is working on Xcode for iPad, along the same lines as how they’ve brought Final Cut and Logic Pro. You can also edit app metadata like icon and the app-wide default tint colour, by selecting the Package name at the top of the project navigator sidebar. In September, a week before the new OS versions shipped, this single TestFlight build expired at 3 months old, leaving us without any way to even edit the projects we’d updated to the new releases.

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