macOS is a series of proprietary operating systems developed by Apple for their own hardware. It's designed exclusively for the Apple ecosystem, providing users with a powerful and user-friendly platform to operate their devices.

Warning: At the moment, support of macOS in AUI Framework is in early stage and lacks a lot of features.

macOS shares its XNU kernel and codebase with iOS (operating system).

Due to closed nature of Apple platforms, a single macOS machine is considered as the only option for AUI/application development for all supported platforms at once:

macOS - natively (obviously)
iOS - natively (via Xcode)
Android - natively (via Android Studio)
Windows - via VM
Linux - via VM
Emscripten (WebAssembly) - natively

Key considerations#

You'd want to support both architectures - x86_64 and Apple Silicon arm64 by producing universal binaries
Application menu is located in system's top bar instead of being inside the window
macOS hardware offers high density displays (marketing name: Retina), so you need to use density-independent dimension units such as _dp
Apple laptops include high quality touchpads with high resolution scroll and possibility for multitouch gestures

AUI implementation specifics#

Namespace AMessageBox: Implemented with NSAlert.
Member AMessageBox::NONE: Displays app's bundle icon.
Member APath::TEMP: Maps to system temp directory /tmp.
Member AUI_ENTRY: Only the main thread is able to initialize graphics context.

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