Chapter 11. From iPhone to iPad

Over the course of this book, you've gone through the creation of several apps made just for iPad. But if you're coming into this as an iPhone developer, chances are you already have one or more apps that you would like to bring over to the iPad. Yes, you could just run them on the iPad, but that's far from ideal. Both of the iPad's methods for displaying an iPhone app—either showing it at actual size in the middle of the screen or stretching the display to make it fill the entire iPad screen—are pretty disappointing for most applications.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to take an existing iPhone application and turn it into a first-class citizen on the iPad, making full use of the extra screen real estate, as ...

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