I have the latest version of Xcode. In one of my projects I noticed that the views for the iPhone were the new iPhone 5 screen sizes. I like it but is there a way to switch back to the smaller screen size? Not everyone has the iPhone 5.
Also, when your building your interface, you'll see a small icon that lets you quickly switch between 4" and 3.5" screens. It's the rectangular icon on the left. It toggles back and forth between phone sizes.
There's a size property in the attributes, so you can choose the pre iPhone5 size of 3.5
Update: It's now under Editor->Simulated Screen. It's combined with orientation (portrait vs. landscape).
You can switch between the Form Factors(IPhone 5 and the previous versions) by clicking on Editor->Apply Form Factor
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We have an iPod app built with base SDK as 5.1.
App has a tabBarController with three tabs and each tab has a UIViewController to load a different view.
The app works fine for iOS 6.1 and iOS 7 (3.5 inch display) simulator and device but when we run the app on
iOS 7 (4 inch display simulator) or device we are getting black bars at the top and bottom of the view screen in all three tabs.
If anyone can suggest reason for this or some feasible solution to this problem, it would be really helpful for us.
Thanks
First thing is that you must add the required default image for 4 inch screen display. Check Properly in you project have image with name Default-568h#2x.png (640 × 1136 pixels)
This Default-568h#2x.png is Necessary for Support app in 4 inch Screen display
Ones you add this image in to you working Project, Remove old Build from device or Simulatore, clear Project and re build and check Hope you issue will solve.
Edit:-
After fix the black Bar issue you can check the device like my answer Give here check this:-
Detect device type
you have two choice if you can't use AutoLayout
First
Create two xib with same class one for 3.5 inch screen and one for 4 inch screen set using macro with checking which screen appear.
Second
Set Self.view frame using macro with checking which screen appear.
There are also other methods you can use for set self.view frame as using window frame or UIScreen
My problem was I accidentally deleted the value found here:
I added back LaunchScreen, and made sure there was a LaunchScreen.xib. Maybe it will help some others.
Ive had the same problem - black bars at the top and bottom. It was simply solved by setting the drop down in "App Icons and Launch Images" to Main_iPhone:
App Icons and Launch Images Screen Shot
I was facing same problem . I just added launch image and it worked for me.
XCode->Click on Project File -> Select Target-> App Icons and Launch Images -> Add launch image source
This worked!
Pay attention to Step#5 and Step#6 below:
1.In xcode, Click on the Project file in Project Navigator
2.Click General tab
3.Type "Main_iPhone" in the Launch Screen File field
4.Save
5.Remove the app from device or simulator
6.Then in Xcode go to Product Menu and then select Clean
7.Build again
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.
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.
I'm creating an app using xcode 4.5 that is meant to support only the 3.5 inch retina display. Thus, in the attributes inspector for the view controller I have set the size to be 3.5 inches. However, I'm testing my app on a iphone 5 and the app auto-resizes to fit the whole screen. Do you know why this is happening? How can i make the app remain in 3.5 inches of size even when viewed off of a iphone 5?
Thanks
If you remove the default 568h#2x icon from your project the app will run the way you want. On the iPhone 5, you will get black bars on top and bottom to show what it would look like on the 4. Hope this helps.
The answer is - you can't do that :) But you can download ios5 simulator and set it's device property to 3.5 screen device
I am developing and app for iPhone which uses graphics for retina and non-retina displays.
Every UIViewController displays both the status bar and the navigation bar.
The views' simulated metrics values are set correctly for the above options.
The issue I am facing is that the buttons are migrating about 30 pixels when the app runs on iPhone 4. The resize settings of all the GUI objects are set to default.
Could you help me with this issue?
Thank you,
Andrei
Are the #2x version of the images exactly twice the resolution of the non-retina versions?
Different sizes can cause the images to change places between displays.
Can you check the value of the frames of buttons both on 3GS and iPhone 4 and see if they are the same?