I want to focus 4inch resolution.
I think "Required Device capabilities" can't do it.
Is there any solution?
You can’t prohibit an app from running on 3.5" displays. You can prevent it from running on older architectures. Simply compile it for armv7s or arm64—not armv7—and the app will refuse to run on anything other than an iPhone 5 or 5s.
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We have an app that has been rejected in the review process by the Apple app review people. The cause for the rejection is that the app is not scaling properly when run on an Ipad.
The app was never meant to be run on an Ipad, but there seems to be no point in arguing with them about that.
Apple sent us a couple of screenshots that show our app being run on an Ipad with the top portion of the view cut off. Notice how the app is run in some mode where it looks like an Iphone app and does not fill out the entire display area. When we bring up the app on an Ipad, it fills out the screen and does so without any edges cut off.
Can anyone please tell me how to run the app on an Ipad the way the Apple guys have - Iphone-sized? We believe we have a fix for the issue but we need to reproduce the error and then be able to verify that the fix solves the issue.
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I just went through this myself and here is how I resolved it:
Go into info.plist and see if any of the supported interface orientations are set for iPad. Despite selecting iPhone only, I had iPad supported orientations for four (portrait, portrait upside down, landscape left, landscape right). I deleted those.
I also deleted any reference to the launch screen in the info.plist. My app is pretty simple and there's no preloading of data so I don't really need a launch screen. If you do, you could go old school and make your first VC the launch screen.
I then made these changes in Target-->General-->App Icons and Launch Images
That was the only way I could get it in the sim to run the app at iPhone resolution while running an iPad (iPad2, iPad Air).
If Apple is going to force developers to ensure an app runs on an iPad even if it is made just for iPhone, they should eliminate the iPhone Only and Universal options and just have iPad Only as an option.
To run an iPhone app on an iPad, you just need to:
Acquire an iPad (you can also use the simulator)
Set the target device family in Xcode (it's under your target) to iPhone
Connect your iPad, perform any necessary certificate dances
Run the app on the iPad.
As long as the target device family is set to iPhone, the iPad will show your app in this mode.
Apple is likely running your app on a simulator, not on a real device. Notice the "2X" on the top right. In XCode - you should run the app on iPad Retina Simulator. On the bottom right you will see a button that you can toggle from 1X to 2X.
If you place the simulator in "2X" mode, you will see what Apple is seeing.
What OS are you running on your iPad? Things have changed in iOS 8 - and that's likely why you're not seeing what Apple is seeing. My guess is that your are running an app that was initially developed for iOS 7 or earlier - which means that you need to upgrade from scaled resolution to native resolutions to resolve this issue. Here is how you do it:
How to enable native resolution for apps on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus?
I am about to submit a game app for a review.
Game is built with iOS SDK 6.1 and iOS 5.1 as deployment target.
I currently do NOT have views for iPhone 5 (wide) and
the app is running in a letterbox mode on the IP5 which is fine.
The apple guidelines says that Default-568#2x (IP5 launch image) image is required,
but I get a problem if I include this image - the app is not longer running in letterbox mode and looks broken (content is not centered, appears on the left in landscape).
If I do not include the launch image for the IP5, can I expect problem with app review?
Has anyone recently submitted app without IP5 launch image?
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Original question is now outdated! Since May 1st 2013 all submitted apps must have iPhone 5 launch image and you cannot rely on compatibility letterbox mode anymore.
You only include iPhone 5 launch image if you are supporting that screen. Not including the Default-568#2x.png launch image indicates that you are implicitly not supporting the screensize of the iPhone 5 and letterbox mode will be applied to iPhone 5 devices running your app.
You will not have any issues on the App Store. That is until Apple decides that all apps must support the 4" Retina screen going forward.
I just got App rejected for not having the -568h launch screen, which it says has been required as of May 1.
You are no longer allowed to submit an app or an update to an existing app without support for the 4" retina display on iPhone 5 and iPod Touch 5. Your binary will be rejected by an automatic scan process before it enters the "Waiting For Review" state.
No, not required Default-568#2x if you want to run your app in letterbox....
I have an app that is iPhone only (Targeted Device Family == iPhone), Base SDK 4.2, iOS Deployment Target 4.0.
Once in a while, but pretty often, the target switch to iPad Simulator. Is this a bug ? I shouldn't even have this option in the target selection dropdown...
In my eyes is the best way to work arround is to set up the Device in the Simulator under Devices. There you can also choose between iPhone with or without Retina Display.
Once Open, the Simulator-Device will stay.
cheers
To Thomas : I thinkg that you chosed 'iPhone only' on the wrong configuration of the target (ex : 'distribution' instead of 'debug'). If you choose 'iPhone' for the debug configuration, your app should never lanch in the iPad simulator.
To kkend0g187 : choose 'iPhone' for the "targeted device family" in the debug configuration of the target. Otherwise, you will come back to the wrong device not just when you run but when you clean the targets before running.
Which part of the app is it that "triggers" the iPad app as it's own app as opposed to running the iPhone version in a universal binary?
What do I need to change to make my app Universal, after clicking "Upgrade current Target for iPad"? My app runs on outside of the simulator, but my images are too small and my text is out of place. What am I missing here?
To the opposite end, how do I force my Universal app to run as an iPhone app inside the simulator on the iPad? (When changing "Target Device Family", it will run the iPad version of the app in the simulator, but not the iPhone version.)
EDIT:
It seems to me that these questions kind of complement each other. While I suspect it's the same mechanism at work in both situations, I'm not sure what it is, or how it works.
There are keys in the info.plist file put there by the Targeted Device Family setting. The iPad looks for those plist keys to determine whether to launch as a Universal app or in iPhone emulation mode, and which idiom's xib files to use for app launch.
Added:
If you don't have, and specify in the plist, a .xib file suitable for the iPad idiom, then one with the wrong UIWindow frame is used, which ends up in the upper left corner.
You need to re-code the app for the iPad to lay out your text and images how you want them when it is running on an iPad.
To make it run as an iPhone app you stop it being Universal.
The build setting is called Target Device Family
That's where it starts.
If you wrote a universal app and you want to force the iPhone mode on the iPad you switch Target Device Family to iPhone only and it will ignore everything else.
I just upgraded to iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 4. Since doing so, I have not been able to get the app to launch in the iPhone simulator - it keeps launching in the iPad simulator. I have tried option-clicking the drop-down menu in the top left-corner of Xcode and setting 'Active Executable' to iPhone simulator 3.1.3 but it keeps going back to iPad simulator instead.
What gives? I have no interest in my app running on the iPad and I don't want to test it in the 2X mode in the simulator.
Thanks,
You can't really launch an iPhone app in 3.2.x - sometimes it will pop up - but basically right now it is only for iPad development.
Update for release version of Simulator.
First of all, the title of this question doesn't match the description: Xcode target isn't the same as the simulator hardware device.
If you are writing an app targeting 3.2, it can run on both iPad (using OS 3.2) and lower OS versions on the iPhone. You do this by setting the Base SDK to iPhone Device 3.2, the Targeted Device Family to iPhone/iPad, and the iPhone OS Deployment Target to 3.1 (lower than 3.2).
The iPhone simulator has a menu option for Hardware->Device, which can be set to iPhone or iPad. However, you can only run a 3.2 SDK target in iPad mode, and a Universal app that supports iPad can only use the 3.2 SDK to build.
You can of course set the simulator to iPhone mode and launch your app from Springboard, but that will lose the debugger connection. Switching mode during installation of your app will cause it to crash.
So the short answer is still the same: you can't run a Universal iPad app in the iPhone mode simulator while debugging.
Upper-left corner of the IDE find a dropdown list of Simulator versions - flipped to 3.2 - try to put it back to 3.1.3
and relaunch your app.
This was driving me nuts too, but the answer is right here:
http://quatermain.tumblr.com/post/517122761/running-universal-ipad-iphone-apps-in-the-simulator
In short, tell Xcode to Build for the 3.2 SDK, then switch the build menu to the 3.1 SDK and tell Xcode to Run the app. Presto, the app starts in the iPhone simulator!
From Apple's documentation: "iPhone OS 3.2 does not support iPhone and iPod touch devices. It runs only on iPad." There's no way to target 3.2 for iPhone, so there's no Simulator. Ergo, you'll have to wait for iOS 4. Fortunately, that's only 4 days away now... of course it won't support the first generation of iPhone devices, but for all other iPhone users it's a free upgrade. Not sure about iPod Touches.
You should be able to change your target platform in your Project Settings.
Changing the target platform and device makes no difference. It always launches the iPad simulator.
If you switch the simulator to iPhone mode, the app just disappears.
This dev environment is a mess.
Short answer: You can change the hardware setting in the simulator. Hardware->Device
Go to Project
Set Active Executable
There are 2 options: Ipad Simulator 3.2 or Iphone Simulator 4.0.
If you choose the Iphone simulator, then it will launch Iphone simulator.
If you choose the Ipad simulator, then it will launch Ipad simulator.
I finally solved this problem myself.
First, install new version of xCode, which is xCode 4.
Then set project scheme to iphone simulator and run app in xCode several times.
And re-install xCode 3 and the problem will be gone away!