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Cool!! Kaleidescape's "Second Screen" app on a Mac!

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Maybe this was obvious to everyone, but wasn't to me... I just successfully installed the "Second Screen" iPad app on a Mac, and it works. You must have one of the new Apple-silicon macs (M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max processors).

Many, but not all, iPad & iOS apps can be installed on Apple-silicon macs, if they were written properly. Can confirm I'm happily using Second Screen on my new 14" 2021 Macbook Pro with M1 Max processor. The window isn't resizable, since it wasn't designed for a windowing environment, but there are two orientations you can get to by just dragging the window resizer as you normally would... corresponding to an iPad in vertical orientation and another for horizontal orientation. It will just jump to one orientation or the other as you drag the window.

Scrolling around cover-view with a finger on a magic mouse is super cool.

And, as we know from another thread (thanks @JohnJ) "Second Screen" app is the only way you can get cover-view UI to be limited to just one of your collections. .. so now that's doable on a Mac too.

Screen Shot 2022-01-12 at 4.20.11 PM.png

To install this on a Mac rather than an ipad, go here on a Mac: ‎Kaleidescape Second Screen.
If you have an M1-powered Mac, you'll be asked if you want to install this via the Mac app store.
(Yours will say "Install" rather than "Open" in the blue button).

Screen Shot 2022-01-12 at 4.27.00 PM.png

--josh
 
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Yep, both Kaleidescape apps are available in the Mac App Store as iPad apps on Apple Silicon. They work awesome. I recommended K releasing this when I got my first M1 Mac to test with a while back.

I really wish more companies would drop their iPad apps in the Mac App Store.
 
Discovered this as well and find it amazing!

Curious why the Kaleidescape Movie Store app can be be maximized to full screen on Mac but the Second Screen app can only run in portrait/landscape 'windowed' mode? Would be great to maximize cover view to the full 4k resolution of my monitor.
 
If I recall correctly, you don't get any extra columns or rows on the OSD when running in 4k, so there likely aren't more pixels to be had.
 
tov5005 said:
Curious why the Kaleidescape Movie Store app can be be maximized to full screen on Mac but the Second Screen app can only run in portrait/landscape 'windowed' mode? Would be great to maximize cover view to the full 4k resolution of my monitor.
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The Mobile App is written to Apple's modern standards for screen layout, and adapts to everything from the iPhone SE to iPads and beyond.

Second Screen was written over a decade ago, before Apple even had that layout engine. So, it does not have the ability to adapt itself to the different aspect ratios and sizes that would be required for use at arbitrary window sizes.
 
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