Chapter 11. Building a tvOS App

You made it to the final chapter! By now, you should have a good understanding of both native iOS development and full stack web development using Vapor. We have covered several topics in the previous chapters regarding adding authentication and authorization to both our backend and to our iOS app. In this chapter, we will end the book by extending our app to work on the tvOS platform. As we learned before, building a product is more than just building an app. It involves building several apps across different platforms. Using Swift, now, we are able to build for different platforms, improving productivity and code shareability. This productivity gain helps a small team of iOS developers build an entire ecosystem of the application by themselves and compete with large companies.

In this chapter, we will finish off our app by building a tvOS version of it. Doing so, you will learn how easy it is to build a tvOS app from an existing iOS app and how we can share...