Apple Watch Series 4 show full screen wrong - sprite-kit

My full screen SpriteKit game which works fine on 38/42mm in Series 2/3, when run on Series 4 (real hardware), seems to cut off the top (approximately the height of the rounded edge) and push down the game scene. This happened regardless of whether it is compiled to watchOS 4 or 5.
What shall I do? I have watch the "Designing for Apple Watch Series 4" talk and have also set to "Fixed to screen edges" in storyboard. "Full Screen" is also switched on.

Still happening for me in Xcode 10.1. Admittedly with a project originally built in Xcode 8 or 9 with the old templates.
I fixed it in:
interface.storyboard --> Interface Controller --> Attributes:
Full screen = true
Fixed to screen edges = false
The "fixed to screen edges" is recommended in a number of places, but for my code it was offsetting everything down - INCLUDING THE CLOCK!

Related

Storyboard view designed properly with Auto Layout and Trait Variations in Interface Builder of Xcode 8 has wrong size in Simulator and Device

I've been working on iOS apps for many years before a longer pause. On my new project I decided to try the new features of the Interface Builder and Storyboards (Swift 3, Xcode 8.2.1). So I've got a working app with precisely defined constraints for all supported devices, following the "regular" and "compact" width/height paradigm. Everything seemed to work and I loved the approach.
I was finalising the first views (and their controllers) for the iPad simulator before I decided to run the app also on an iPhone simulator to check for the layout. It turns out that all works as expected but for ONE view.
This view has the following behaviour:
If in the Storyboard canvas (and even the Assistance Editor, which
looks the same for me, by the way) I selected "view as iPad 9,7" and
run the iPad simulator (of the same screen size), the layout works the way it should.
If in the Storyboard canvas I selected "view as iPhone 5" and
run the iPhone 5 simulator, the layout works the way it should.
If however I select "view as iPhone 5" and run the app on the iPad simulator OR any other false combination, the following happens:
Once the view appears (custom segue, or default push. All the views are inside a navigation controller) it shows the content scaled down/up to the size of the preview size I selected on the Storyboard. Then it animates (scaling from the top left corner) to fill the screen. For instance: If I select "view as iPhone 5" and run on an iPad, the view appears in the left top corner of the iPad simulator having the size of an iPhone 5. Then it scales up to fill the screen having the exact layout I want.
One should add that inside this one view, the layout for all devices looks the same, merely scaled down/up. So it really just comes down to wrong view size.
This all happens ONLY to one of my views, which I all have designed and laid out (constraints) the same way. This happens EVERY TIME, and it happens on the simulator and on real devices.
I was trying various suggestions from the web for the last week and I failed to find any topic (on Stack Overflow) that was able to help me.
I'm lost. I'm glad for any suggestions!
Thank you.
After removing everything from my view step by step and building every single step I found that I had a self.view.layoutIfNeeded() inside my viewDidLoad() which was inside an animation block animating a single subview, but for some reason lead to aforementioned issues. Removing it solved the issue.

Different position image between Xcode 4 and 5

I'm new with iPhone developing and I have many problem about the transition to iOS 7!
Example screen
Why is the position of the image different?
iOS 7 has introduced over 1500 new APIs... It is very unlikely that you will be able to directly transfer your apps between the OS's - if it was the same then there would be little point in Apple putting the work in to a new OS.
In the example that you have given, iOS7 uses a margin from the top of the screen, as opposed to the bottom of the top toolbar.
This article helped me work out how to handle the migration.

View for Retina 3.5 displayed like Retina 4

I would like to have an iPhone app only for Retina 3.5. For one of my views I set Size to "Retina 3.5 Fill Screen". I added a toolbar to this view.
However, when I run the app on iPhone 5 the view is displayed Full Screen (like on Retina 4) and the toolbar is somewhere in the middle of the view.
Here are my settings from the XCode:
And here is a screenshot from my iPhone 5:
Any thought how can I make sure that the view is displayed as Retina 3.5 on iPhone 5 ?
Is there any particular reason why you don't want it to work for the 4 inch display? For iPhone five users (at least for me anyways) having an app that isn't built for the larger display is the most annoying thing ever. Those users pay to have more screen real estate and not making an app for them isn't taking advantage of that extra screen real estate. Also, apple made auto layout to be more versatile. This means in the future there are going to be even more screen sizes coming up, so sooner or later you will have to learn how to make the apps behave correctly using auto layout.

App runs on iphone 5 like iphone 4

I have finally done to build Augmented Reality app.
The app works great for iphone 4 screen size Width :480 Height :320.
During the development I have also test the simulator to see launch goes well for 4 inch display (iphone 5), and it did go well the splash screen show was the 4 inch png named : Default-568h#2x.png and the screen shows a white background fully (like it should).
When I launch the app on a real iphone 5 device, the 3.5 inch splash screen loaded and the app load like it loads on iphone 4. Everything in the middle and I get a little black equal Margins from the side, the cable is original and this is the Weirdest thing ever happened to me.
UPDATE : i have also tried to add this code on the simulator and to the real device :
CGRect bounds = [[UIScreen mainScreen]bounds];
NSLog(#"%#",NSStringFromCGRect(bounds));
the simulator prints iphone 5 screen size, the real device prints iphone 4 size.
Any help please
Make sure you have all three Launch images set up correctly. :)
Make sure the image has been added to the target.
=> If you select your image file in the Project Navigator (left pane) the Utilities pane (right pane) should have a checkmark under 'Target Membership' next to your target.
I think that your views need to resize. You may need to include some code that detects what device the person is using and resizes the view. Just a suggestion.

iPhone 5 not displaying app properly

I am testing some old apps on the iPhone 5 simulator. Most of the apps display properly, that is the display centered, maintaining the original iPhone aspect with blank space on the top and bottom.
One of my apps acts differently. It stretches the launch image (an old 2:3 aspect launch image) to the full height top to bottom of the iPhone 5 simulator. Then it snaps the app to the top of the window, as opposed to centering it.
I suspected this had something to do with auto-layout, but as far as I can tell, being new to the concept, it is disabled. As I checked in the file inspector and "use auto layout" is unselected.
Any thoughts? Thanks for reading!
Removing Default-568h#2x.png from the project should solve the problem. It seems like several people have been having a problem with Xcode auto-creating this launch image.
From my experience it looks like when you open a project in XCode 4.5 it automatically adds a flag to each view saying "Autoresize subviews" and by default this is set to true. When I disable this flag for all my views, they no longer stretch. Interestingly though, I don't get the letterboxing in the simulator, instead a get a white band at the bottom.
I ended up manually setting up the views for the iPhone 5 because I could not locate or fix the issue. Setting up the views specifically for the iPhone 5 was relatively easy, but frustrating to not know why it was necessary in this case.
I detected the iPhone 5 using the code below found in this stack overflow answer: How to detect iPhone 5 (widescreen devices)?
#define IS_IPHONE_5 ( [ [ UIScreen mainScreen ] bounds ].size.height > 500)
if (IS_IPHONE_5 ) {
//set up views
}
Remove the Default-568h#2x.png from the project, and also, you must manually remove the app from the simulator before running it again from Xcode. It looks like ios6 saves some kind of a flag for the installed apps that makes it think it should stretch it.
Simply removing the Default-568h#2x.png did not solve my problem.
First I deleted this file, than I drag a 640x1136 image to the "Launch images - Retina (4-inch)" of "iPhone Deployment Info" section in Xcode.
In iOS 7 Sdk if your are not added launch image in your project you need to
Add launch image (640 X 1136 and 640 X 960)into your project, Then go to General Tab and set both launch image (Retina, Retina 4 inch) then remove app from simulator and run again should solve the problem