If you want to run your app on a real iPhone, the process is pretty much identical. You need a USB cable to connect your iPhone to your Mac. As long as your phone shows up in the Locations sidebar in ...

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The iPad app for budding software developers also gets new demo apps and supports Apple's SwiftUI technology that bridges across iPhones, iPads and Macs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Last summer, after watching an inspiring showcase featuring apps created by young coders using Apple's Swift Playgrounds programming language, I resolved to enlist my kids to develop an iPhone app.

App makers have a lot to sort out between now and the iPad’s planned arrival in late March. But at least one developer is jumping headfirst into the uncharted waters of making apps specifically for ...

Some iPhone developers that make apps for Facebook got quite a surprise on Tuesday--their developer credentials had been deleted, without warning, leaving their apps and customers high and dry. All ...

I had more meetings than I can remember at last week’s Worldwide Developer Conference where some variation on the following exchange took place: Me: “So what’s your marketing strategy?” Developer: “We ...