I just finished up my storyboard based iPhone app (I'm developing on an iPhone 5). Just before submitting it to the Appstore, I thought of making sure everything looks fine on an iPhone 4. So I launch my app in the simulator with iPhone 4.
And what I see baffles me. Basically every single view object, particularly textview, are stacked on top of each other. Basically everything scrollable's messed up. In some textviews even, the initial scroll position has been set to say 100px, which means that the textview's showing the middle of the content in a textview and there'sno way to scroll to top.
Every time I make an ajustments to the storyboard view to fit the iPhone 4, the view on iPhone 5 instead looks weird. Most of the time, the stacked objects on iPhone 4 simulator can't even be unstacked.
Am I the only one experiencing this? I cant find any post about it. Could it be that there's something messed up with my simulator? Any setting I've missed? The only solution I can think of now is to have a seperate SB for iP4 and iP5, but I really would rather not go through the pain of doing that. Any comment or idea is greatly appreciated.
How it looks
You need to make sure that your autosizing struts and springs are set appropriately.
The views need to either dock to the top, or bottom and the views that you want to stretch should have the flexible vertical set.
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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.
I understand that the UI elements will look different, and that is not what I am worried about. I created a simple app in Xcode 5 that just displays a label right under the status bar. In iOS 7 this looks fine. However, when I run the app on an iOS 6 device, the label appears too far down from the status bar. I know that in iOS 7, y=0 is the top of the screen instead of the bottom of the status bar, so I understand why this is happening, but I can't figure out how to fix it. I have seen solutions using self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone, and others that use the deltas in Interface Builder when Autolayout is turned off, however none of these have worked for me.
How can I fix this (while still using Autolayout)? There must be a better way than just subtracting 20 px from the view's position if the system version is iOS 6.1 or earlier.
You can try using the iOS6/7 deltas on your UIViews in your nib files.
It's located in the size inspector of your UIView.
I think the answer you're looking for is in this tech note. (In short: apply a Vertical Space Constraint anchored to the Top Layout Guide of your view controller.)
Technical Q&A QA1797: Preventing the Status Bar from Covering Your
Views https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1797/_index.html
Enabling Autolayout in .xib or .storyboard and adding a splash screen of 640px by 1136px enables iPhone 5 resolution support for the taller screen.
However, doing so, my app started to display some funny things where I assume autolayout is not a great idea.
I am wondering if there is a way to enable iPhone 5 device support, i.e. fix app's resolution without using Autolayout? Maybe I can set in the code?
If yes, then I will have no need to create 2 storyboards or nibs to support iOS5- and iOS6.
If you weren't using Autolayout before, you won't need to use it for iPhone 5 support.
When you're putting your interface together, you just need to check your bindings, and toggle between the taller phone size, and the regular phone size, as described here:
Xcode Storyboard displaying the new iPhone 5 screen size?
If your screens look fine in both screen sizes then you're done.
If you are doing a lot of coding to show your UI, then you'll have more work to do.
I found a great answer a couple weeks ago (link below). You will copy and paste your older iPhone Storyboard, rename it to reflect the iPhone 5, and press the button that expands the screen size, found on the bottom of the layout grid. Some minor coding adjustments might be needed, but this sample code is used in the AppDelegate to detect which device is running, and hence, which Storyboard to use. You'll just have to duplicate your interfaces, but these GUI changes can be made without code and without AutoLayout (also good to note that AutoLayout removes iOS 5--and lower--compatibility)
xcode 4.5 how to pick storyboards at launch
I'm making an app that uses a keypad composed of UIButtons.
When the keypad is mocked up in Photoshop and then cut up to form the separate buttons, they are completely congruous when the view is composed in storyboard in Xcode 4.3.
Likewise, when I run the app in iPhone Simulator, the UI is perfect:
However, when I run the app on an actual iPhone (iOS 5.1), I notice slight horizontal gaps between some of the buttons.
I'm at a loss to explain this. I've even checked the storyboard XML manually to ensure that all dimensions are correct and that the x,y positioning coordinates are appropriate.
Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong? TIA.
I recently deployed my first iPhone app, a simple game, to my testing iPhone for the first time. Everything looks and runs fine on the simulator in Xcode, but on the iPhone the whole image is shifted up about 10 pixels or so. So the gameplay goes slightly offscreen on top and has a slim white/grey bar at the bottom. Has anyone encountered this before? I do have the status bar display turned off, I'm wondering if the device handles that flag differently than the simulator. I also have the rotation hardcoded to be in portraitRight mode at all times, and I have an extra line in the code to make the simulator do that automatically that's apparently not necessary on the device.
Everything is very simple, so I'm not sure where this glitch is coming from or even where to look.
Did you use Interface Builder to create your UI? If you did, then go and check each and every XIB file(s) objects' Size & Position as well as Autosizing in Size Inspector (command-3).
It's very important to check both: your coordinates might have gone wrong after some change you did and autoscaling works in weird ways unless you attach to correct edges. Apple documentation should help http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/IB_UserGuide/Layout/Layout.html