Migrating our app to the iPad

Upon its unveiling, the iPad was written off by critics as no more than a large iPod touch. It wasn't until the typical users were able to use the device that people soon realized that the device wasn't a magnifed version of the iPhone or iPod touch. The screen resolution, form factor, and portability of the device lent the iPad a completely different usage experience.

Let's take a look at different ways in which a user can use our app on the iPad and how this affects interface design.

Getting ready

For this application, we should have an iPad device on hand with several iPhone-only applications loaded, along with several iPad-optimized applications as well. Several well designed iPad-optimized applications to consider include Pages, GarageBand, Keynote, GoodReader, Penultimate, iMovie, and MLB.com At Bat.

How to do it...

In designing an application that we want people to use on the iPad, we're given three different types of applications that we can build, depending...