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Title: Marzipan: What you need to now about the rumored new XKit Post by: HCK on April 26, 2018, 04:05:19 pm Marzipan: What you need to now about the rumored new XKit
'Marzipan' is the reported code-name for a new, cross-platform iOS and macOS development framework Apple maybe planning to roll out as soon as WWDC 2018. Apple has a problem. The teams working on its apps increasingly have to develop and maintain features across iOS and macOS. Sometimes that causes work to go more slowly than anybody would like. Sometimes it causes a lack of feature parity that nobody likes. That problem is echoed throughout the third-party developer community as well. It results in fewer Mac apps with fewer features updated less often. Or not at all. So, what to do? The answer, it seems, may be 'Marzipan'. Wait, why would Apple need a cross-platform developer framework? Currently, iOS apps use the UIKit frameworks and Mac apps use the older App Kit frameworks. Photos, which launched cross-platform, was implemented using the seemingly one-off UXKit for Mac, and wasn't exactly an ideal execution. Other companies were using web apps, Electron ... Source: Marzipan: What you need to now about the rumored new XKit (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/WYjIiXwGE1k/marzipan) |