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We've released a Tuist macOS app as the next step in making sharing your apps a joyful experience.
A few weeks ago, we announced our first feature designed to make collaboration more efficient, Tuist Previews, and it was met with enthusiasm from teams who loved it 💜. But we knew there was room for improvement. From the start, our vision for previews was to make opening a preview link as effortless as clicking any link you find on the internet or receive from a colleague. This seamless experience is made possible on the macOS platform through a feature called Universal Links, which requires a dedicated macOS app to handle these links. The missing piece? A macOS app for Tuist.
Today, we are excited to announce that the Tuist app for macOS is finally here!
The macOS app is inspired by [Shopify’s Tophat](https://github.com/Shopify/tophat), but is tightly integrated in the Tuist platform, requiring no additional configuration.
Until now, you would share and run Tuist Previews exclusively with the CLI:
Clicking on the Preview link wouldn’t do anything. This changes now. After you install the Tuist app on your Mac, opening the link in the browser will automatically run the shared app in the simulator that you selected in the menu bar app.
To select a simulator, choose one from the list in the menu bar app. You can also pin your favorite simulators, copy their names and identifiers, and launch them.
Check out the video below to see the new app in action:
Wondering what else is coming to Tuist Previews? Here are some of the features we’re working on:
README.md
that opens the app with just a click — mind-blowing, right? We’ll support that too. Do you have any suggestions or want to get involved? Let us know on our GitHub or join the Slack community. The app is completely open source, and you can find it here.
Although the macOS app is currently focused on previews, we don’t plan to stop there. We’ll continually seek out opportunities to enhance Tuist by leveraging the native capabilities of the platform, aiming to make your development experience even more enjoyable. We are committed to developing a flexible and well-documented API, enabling any contributor to extend the app’s capabilities and even build their own clients using Apple’s robust technologies.