Apple's Swift Playgrounds, an app that teaches you how to code via small game like experiences, has launched on the Mac App Store for the first time.
Xcode is a developer’s app and it requires some level of expertise. However, by spinning Swift Playground into a separate app, Apple is opening the doors to a lot of users. IPad port using the Catalyst project. Apple has used its Catalyst technology for the Mac to port the iPad app to the desktop platform. Now you can learn and explore coding using Swift Playgrounds on Mac. Take advantage of the same great experimenting environment from iPad, updated with a unique Mac experience that includes a new sidebar, Touch Bar support, and code suggestions that provide additional help. You can even use the same playground file on both platforms. Swift Playgrounds is an easy way to try out new code for. Swift Playgrounds, the beginner's training app for Apple's Swift coding language, has arrived on the Mac App Store at last, having for the previous three and a half years been exclusively. Apple has built a Mac version of Swift Playground from its iPad app and released it last month. You can now run Swift Playgrounds on both iPad and macOS. Personally, I don’t use to recommend Swift Playgrounds for iPad as the learning tool of iOS programming if your goal is to build a real app and make it available on the App Store.
Originally introduced on iPad as a separate app experience in September 2016, the app now moves to the Mac using Apple's own development tool called Mac Catalyst. This tool, which launched with macOS Catalina, is used to port existing iPad apps to Mac with little extra effort on the developers part. Swift Playgrounds is the latest of several of Apple's own apps to get the treatment.
The Mac App will work in the same way as the iPad app, using the trackpad to navigate rather than a touchscreen. Training modules made by Apple are added and updated over time to ensure that users can learn all the newest systems. Third party hardware developers create new devices and toys to program inside of Swift Playgrounds.
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Developers can also allow users to download and subscribe to their own Playground Modules within the app. This means that users won't run out of things to do with the app. The same subscription options are available in the new Mac app.
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Visit your local Apple Store and attend an 'Everyone Can Code' session to learn more about Swift and coding with Swift Playgrounds. And thanks to the new Catalyst App, you'll be able to attend with your favorite MacBook.
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