Devs might be able to write software on iPad and iPhone with Xcode:
macOS and iOS software developers will soon be able to code on an iPad or even iPhone, if an unconfirmed report is correct. iPadOS 14 and the iPhone equivalent will reportedly include support for Xcode, Apple's software development environment.
This report comes from Jon Prosser, founder of YouTube channel Front Page Tech, who recently correctly predicted the launch date of the 2020 iPhone SE. On Monday, Prosser said via Twitter "XCode is present on iOS / iPad OS 14. The implications there are HUGE."
I'm not gonna say that Final Cut is coming to iPad...
But XCode is present on iOS / iPad OS 14.
The implications there are HUGE.
Opens the door for "Pro" applications to come to iPad.
I mentioned this last week on a live stream, but figured it was worth the tweet ♂️
— Jon Prosser (@jon_prosser) April 20, 2020
(Score: 5, Interesting) by purdy on Saturday April 25 2020, @02:52PM
I think Apple might do this for three reasons:
1) There is a (small) use case for having XCode on a phone or tablet. There are times when you just want to make a minor bug fix and could even do it on your phone.
2) I think Apple is going to be pushing Marzipan/Catalyst very, very hard at WWDC as a way of getting more applications available for future ARM-based Macs. I know you can just recompile existing Mac apps to ARM, but I strongly suspect the ARM-based Macs are going to run a version of Mac OS X that's a lot closer to iPadOS than Catalina.
3) If XCode becomes a Marzipan/Catalyst app, it's pretty hard to say "But my app is too complicated to run on an iPad" (I'm looking at you Adobe)