Complexity of converting a iOS App to a Mac App.

[iSDK]

Hi,

I am interested in converting my application from just an iOS App to a Mac Application.

However before I could begin I would appreciate it if someone could tell me the amount of work, and the complexity of making the app.

The app consists of downloading and parsing xml data from an online source, and then placing it into a drill down table view.

Thanks

iSDK

[Bertrand21]

Originally Posted by iSDK

Hi,

I am interested in converting my application from just an iOS App to a Mac Application.

However before I could begin I would appreciate it if someone could tell me the amount of work, and the complexity of making the app.

The app consists of downloading and parsing xml data from an online source, and then placing it into a drill down table view.

Thanks

iSDK

It is definitely a change of direction. Somethings are similar and somethings are really complex on OS X.

[cwalcott]

I converted an iOS app to Mac that sounds similar to yours. The biggest thing for me was learning about the NSDocument-based model. This Apple doc was helpful: Loading…

[DBruzenak]

The use case you stated shouldn't be too much more complex than the iOS app. On the Mac, you have bindings for your table view and NSArrayController to work with, I recommend looking at both in the doc.

In general, the Mac APIs are like older versions of the iOS apis, less clean but still pretty workable. I wouldn't be afraid to do the port at all. Give it a weekend and see how far you get

[martin59]

Originally Posted by cwalcott

I converted an iOS app to Mac that sounds similar to yours. The biggest thing for me was learning about the NSDocument-based model. This Apple doc was helpful: Loading…

I've done a system wide search and trashed all .app files from the project's build folder, does anyone know how the MAS determines if an app has been "installed" ?

[srirambond007]

Originally Posted by iSDK

Hi,

I am interested in converting my application from just an iOS App to a Mac Application.

However before I could begin I would appreciate it if someone could tell me the amount of work, and the complexity of making the app.

The app consists of downloading and parsing xml data from an online source, and then placing it into a drill down table view.

Thanks

iSDK

Well, i have converted two iOS apps to MAC OS X. I didn't find it very complex. Only thing is that UI has to be remodeled completely along with any code related to it. One of my application is a code generator which generates code for iPhone to connect with WSDL service. So parsing XML and manipulating it was part of it. Hope this helps