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Asked: 2026-06-07T11:28:15+00:00

I’m an experienced iOS developer but have not touched OSX development. I plan to

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I’m an experienced iOS developer but have not touched OSX development. I plan to port my iOS app to OSX. Of course, there will be certain differences based upon the obvious design paradigm and differences in SDKs, but I could easily see 80-90% of the code being identical, even including a lot of the UI. Is there any good approach for maintaining one code set that powers both apps? Of course, I could do some sort of static library, but I’m wondering if there is a complete solution, and/or advice on what pitfalls I might encounter as a new OSX developer…

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  1. Editorial Team

    Check out http://chameleonproject.org/, “a drop in replacement for UIKit that runs on Mac OS X”.

    Alternatively, you could have two different targets in your Xcode project, one for iOS and the other for Mac, then include the overlapping code files in both your iOS and Mac targets.

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