Play: Create Better Apps 4+

iPad Viewer

We now officially support designing & prototyping for iPad apps! Design on your desktop then view your prototype in its native environment—your iPad!
Our iPad app is the same as our iOS app, so if you already have Play for iOS downloaded on iPad, you just need to update to 3.8.0! If not, you can download the app and connect to macOS the same way you do on iOS.

Portrait vs. Landscape View

Play now allows you to control how your app behaves in portrait and landscape orientations. You can set an initial orientation, choose which orientations your project supports, and use interactions to adapt your design when the device rotates.
Orientation changes can trigger actions through Device Events, and conditions based on Expression Editor properties like isPortrait, isLandscape, or orientation let you define behavior specific to each orientation.

Rive Updates
With a Rive file selected in Design Mode, you can now choose either a State Machine or an Animation directly from the Animation property. State Machines work the same way as before, while Animations unlock new properties—Direction and Loop—enabling simpler playback without needing a state machine.

Other Improvements
- Code Export now supports selected native elements: Slider, Switch, Activity Indicator, Stepper, Segmented Control, and Picker.
- Level up your user testing sessions by seeing each interaction the user has with your prototype using an App Clip touch indicator.
- Segmented Control elements can now use a custom font, rather than the default System font set by Apple. We’ll be rolling this out to additional native elements in the future!
- You can now dismiss a page or sheet from a nav bar button
- We have a new action, Set Stack Direction, that sets a stack’s direction to V (Vertical), H (Horizontal), or Z.
- The Expression Editor now supports:
- Setting or getting the width and height with .contentWidth, .contentHeight, fill, or auto
- SF Symbol properties like Weight, Scale, and Size
- Text properties like Weight and Design


Bug Fixes
- The app crashed when a Rive file did not have a selected state machine
- The app crashed when creating a Type Style via a button’s Context Bar
- The app crashed when exporting a Swift button with a custom font
- Play Simulator’s sync broke when switching between projects
- The Rive Animation menu incorrectly displayed a Dark Theme color scheme
- The Simulator Devices **menu retained its hover state after the window was dismissed
- Custom size presets values for the Simulator were not working
- Setting SVG tint with a Set Variable action was not working
- Color variables can now be set with both the color picker and hex values