Apple will launch at WWDC 2019 the first SDK through which application developers for iOS and macOS can create universal applications for the two operating systems, all through the Marzipan project, demonstrated in 2018. At WWDC 2018, Apple announced its plan to allows developers to make universal applications for iOS and macOS, and in the summer it will also offer the first software that will give them the opportunity to create these types of applications.
Although Apple will allow the creation of universal applications for iOS and macOS from 2019, only from 2020 will it allow developers to offer them to users, but probably in a version broken from the existing ones. Only in 2021 will Apple allow the creation of truly universal applications for iOS and macOS, so that developers will be able to create applications that can be installed on both platforms from a single AppStore, a dream of some fans and developers.
The first universal applications for iOS and macOS will be offered only in 2021
In 2019, developers will be able to transform iPad applications to make them compatible with macOS, but those for iPhone will have something similar available only from 2020. Even then, applications of this kind will have to be submitted for publication in the App Store in a separate form compared to the standard ones, the Apple company planning that only in 2021 will offer the option of universal applications to be published in its stores.
The aim of the multistep initiative, code-named "Marzipan," is that by 2021, developers will be able to build an app once and have it work on the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers. Later this year, Apple plans to let developers port their iPad apps to Mac computers via a new software development kit that the company will release as early as June. In 2020, Apple plans to expand the kit so iPhone applications can be converted into Mac apps in the same way.
The idea itself is not new, those from Microsoft have been allowing the creation of universal applications for Windows since a few years ago, but their solution was not very successful among developers. Apple has a different approach, however, planning to improve this system for 3 years before offering it to developers, so theoretically, we should have a mature and very good system by the time will be offered.
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