Swift : Mac (Designed for iPad) Caveat

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It seems if you write a LANDSCAPE app for the iPad and expect to also run in on a M-series Mac, the Mac does NOT emulate a landscape “size” it acts as if it were PORTRAIT… which is an issues, assuming you had good reason the make it LANDSCAPE in the first place

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Thats interesting. My Xojo iPad apps run in landscape on my M2, so it can be done…

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The key is to specify .landscape and NOT .landscapeLeft or .landscapeRight

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For those that thought this was funny.

Xojo offers TWO orientations

  • Portrait
  • Landscape

While Xcode offers FIVE

  • Portrait
  • PortraitUpsideDown
  • Landscape
  • LandscapeLeft
  • LandscapeRight

Where only Portrait and Landscape seem to affect iOS apps running on the Mac
the others seem to affect only if running on iPhone/iPad exclusively

If Xojo offers any of the other three, I can find no evidence of such

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