Porting from iOS to OS X

I have to port an iOS application to OS X. I have a little experience with iOS (although I didn't write the applications) and I would like have some suggests.

1) The appl开发者_如何转开发ication has some nice animations -- should I use Quartz to do them on OS X?

2) How can I change the View to have the same effect as the UINAvigationController on OSX? I searched for this component in the Object Library inside Interface Builder but I didn't find it.

This is liable to be quite an involved process, as (for example) none of the UIKit classes (currently) exist on Mac OS X.

As such, it's likely that you'll only be able to meaningfully retain the model level classes and that a substantial amount of the remaining code may need to be re-written.

My suggestion would be that you thoroughly prepare checklist that contains all tasks. It is not that simple as just looking for equivalent classes in Application Kit to UIKit classes.

it also depends on how app is written. If it has followed MVC properly, then complete files of business logic can be taken without any problems. If not, you will more or less write your new mac app from the scratch.

1. Yes, Core Animation is always a way to go in this cases, but it may happen that you'll encounter a lot of work because of possible different dimensions.

2. UINavigationController is something that doesn't exist on "normal" desktop interfaces. The closest equivalents are tab menus/tab sheets and you know how different they are.

If I were you, I would focus on binging content on the Mac, forget about interface concepts from iOS and rather make new interface concepts on the Mac that are compliant with Apple guidelines.