{"id":36845,"date":"2022-08-24T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36845"},"modified":"2022-08-24T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T19:08:15","slug":"apples-use-of-appkit-catalyst-and-swiftui-in-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/24\/apples-use-of-appkit-catalyst-and-swiftui-in-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s Use of AppKit, Catalyst, and SwiftUI in macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timac.org\/2022\/0818-state-of-appkit-catalyst-swiftui-mac\/\">Alexandre Colucci<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timacfr\/status\/1560372910908375046\">tweet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=32524462\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.timac.org\/2022\/0818-state-of-appkit-catalyst-swiftui-mac\/\">\n<p>As you can see in the graph:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AppKit apps account for a huge percentage of apps<\/li>\n<li>After a slow start, the number of apps using SwiftUI is quickly growing<\/li>\n<li>The number of Mac Catalyst apps reached a ceiling [but see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stroughtonsmith\/status\/1560444989452288000\">this<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>And here is the corresponding graph if you split the apps in 6 categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Catalyst apps using SwiftUI<\/li>\n<li>Catalyst apps with no SwiftUI<\/li>\n<li>SwiftUI apps using AppKit<\/li>\n<li>SwiftUI apps without relying on AppKit<\/li>\n<li>AppKit apps using SwiftUI<\/li>\n<li>AppKit apps with no SwiftUI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/17\/swiftui-changes-at-wwdc-2022\/\">SwiftUI Changes at WWDC 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/17\/thoughts-on-swiftui-after-wwdc-2022\/\">Thoughts on SwiftUI After WWDC 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/20\/apples-use-of-swift-and-swiftui-in-ios-15\/\">Apple&rsquo;s Use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/05\/5-guis\/\">5 GUIs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandre Colucci (tweet, Hacker News): As you can see in the graph: AppKit apps account for a huge percentage of apps After a slow start, the number of apps using SwiftUI is quickly growing The number of Mac Catalyst apps reached a ceiling [but see this] [&#8230;] And here is the corresponding graph if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-08-24T19:08:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"b9d05410-5ed3-45f0-af86-eb0b45f96ef6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-08-24T19:08:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AudBUEF7TRfCvhusLRflu9g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1621,69,30,1609,1666,1891,2077,2223,1812],"class_list":["post-36845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-marzipan","tag-cocoa","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14","tag-macos-10-15","tag-macos-11-0","tag-macos-12","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-swiftui"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36846,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36845\/revisions\/36846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}