What's the recommended way to add a search bar in Mac Catalyst? The new NSSearchToolbarItem that was introduced in macOS 11 is not available in Catalyst. What's the alternative?
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There is no supported way to do that at this time.
Good news for you! Today, iPadOS with catalyst automatically translates navigationItem.searchController to AppKit native NSSearchToolbarItem. (However, only automatic-translation support AppKit native component. It is not available with manual NSToolbar.
Please check the wwdc session. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10076/
A public sample project is here https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/app_and_environment/supporting_desktop-class_features_in_your_ipad_app.