But now it’s time to let others have a competing voice. Fairs fair, that weekly backlog meeting of project managers pretty much delivered the mobile web - fully formed - back in 2007 and has continued to push it forward. Quite apart from being an anti-trust suit in the waiting, the entire web capability of the platform is locked down to the decisions made in a single meeting room in Cupertino. Having one browser engine on iOS is a mistake. Not only is he smart but he backs up points with data, and that should always deserve your consideration, whether you agree with his conclusions or not.Īnd on one point, Alex is always right. But although I might not always agree, I like Alex. The Google engineer Alex Russell has strong views on Safari and iOS – and a lot of fan boys (like me) can get twitter-rage as a response. WebKit is still the only rendering engine available on iOS, Safari still has no devtools and you still can’t have Safari Technical Preview on iOS. One thing that didn’t change this year was the range of browsers on the platform. App Store rules are still vague and punitive.Ī reminder to myself. iPad Pro RAM is unrealistically low compared to the cheapest of laptops. ![]() Background processes are still killed ridiculously early. The sandboxing means that apps still have to jump through crazy hoops to work together in a logical way. The multi-tasking is powerful but cognitively taxing. It’s like suddenly getting 80% of a ChromeOS tablet on top of your iPad. From Jira and Google Analytics to and the hosted version of Visual Code, it’s made the iPad exponentially more capable. So many smaller details have made life easier for a developer, from the icons not re-arranging on rotating the screen, to Siri shortcuts being supercharged, to no-lag text selection, to keyboard commands everywhere.īut the biggest plus is the new Safari, not just purely for it’s "desktop class browsing" but because of the multitude of online tools that this has enabled. And the files app finally understands that you need to get files on and off your iPad in multiple ways. We’ve already talked about how the USB-C IO upgrades were nice for those with the latest iPad Pros. IPadOS13 made the biggest difference to our ability to get things done this year. Your year-old iPad Pro had a free hardware upgrade in 2019.įelt iPad carry case with dongles (HDMI, USB3.0, SD card) and Moko foldable stand. ![]() And with either store-shelf or iPad-bespoke hubs, even with several peripherals at the same time. You can now plug your iPad into 5k monitors, hard drives, mice, microphones, USB-sticks, Raspberry Pis, plus a multitude of cheap, powerful, compact power supplies. Or has it? Because the promised USB-C ecosystem is finally emerging and has collided with the new iPadOS. In the iPad Pro range, the top-end has remained unchanged. The 2019 iPad Air in particular is a Pro in all but name, but they are all "real-work" ready. All non-pro iPads are now different price-point compromises of the old 10.5" pro, with out-of-the-box keyboard and pen support. In 2019, the regular iPads have essentially jumped a tier. GoCoEdit and a Brydge 10.5" (the best keyboard for using on your lap) Hardware # But it’s getting more pleasant by the month. This is a journey that – as yet – still has no clear destination. But having seen where we’ve come from, I’m much more positive about the future. But apps (almost exclusively one-person indie apps) have been incrementally developing to fill the gaps, and the innovative workflows discovered by iPad users have been pretty amazing.ĭon’t be fooled – if I was coming to this platform for the first time as a professional web developer, I would still find iOS extremely limited and frustrating. iPadOS has – for sure – solved a lot of the fundamental problems that previously infuriated the simplest of workflows. What has changed has been a combination of things. ![]() A year later and that list of use-cases is not only wider, but the work you can get done is far deeper. ![]() Last year I lead the 2018 round-up by saying that I could not recommend iOS for doing front-end web-dev unless your project fitted a very narrow list of criteria. But there's hope.īe sure to check out the 2020 version of front-end web dev on iPad. ◂ back ipadpro webdev FE webdev on iPad (2019) Not there yet.
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