I just completed one app in iPhone, now I wants to create same app for both iPhone and iPad.
I am new in iPhone, So don't know exact what to do?
1) create the new project and select Universal option, and copy paste all code
2) modify this app for both.
How to add xib for iPad?
thanks
Maybe this blog post gives you a quick overview, when you want to convert. Otherwise you can create a new project, of course, and copy your code.
You are correct,
Select the Universal option.
Transfer code from the existing iPhone project to the new project.
NOW,
Make the xib files for iPad, and make the connections (IBOutlets).
Wherever you need platform specific features (eg. Popover, Split ViewController etc for iPad), put an IF statement to handle the device specific features.
Select View From User Interface Option after that choose iPad from Device Family. This will create Xib for iPad.And then in Files Owner connect your class.
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This might be a repeat question.But i have a problem. I have an iPad app functional. The app is built in iOS 6. When i started building it i chose iPad as targeted device NOT universal. Now my client has asked for an iPhone version of it.In my iPad app i keep adding custom views as the client clicks "Add More".I add a custom view which is bunch of textfields, buttons etc.So i copied my iPad app and changed the Targeted device family to iPhone once and also Universal next time and tested it. So when i launch the app in iPhone configuration (keeping the targeted device family as Universal) my view controller stays like that on iPad. I cannot scroll the app also(not up/down..nor sideways). Is this the correct way to convert iPad app to iPhone app . Also everything is still with scale to iPad. Should i start a new project and start everything from scratch.Set the storyboard to fit according to iPhone configuration? In my research people said just change the targeted device family to Universal. But it doesn't work. Please let me know if you need more information. Thanks.
It is possible to convert the current project you have to an app that can be used universally, but it would take more time than simply just creating a new project that allows universal usage, and adding in the files of which you used for your iPad project.
Hint: You can use more than one storyboard when the project was created universally. It will automatically set this up for you.
I would also advise that you separate your files into what works universally, and what is specific for the iPhone or the iPad.
Happy Coding!
After many search i found that it possible to have an application for both Iphone and ipad devices.but in your code you should define unique ui for each device(two xib file).
I have one view which was created for iPad, using a Storyboard.
Now, I want to convert it to an iPhone app.
I am very new to Storyboards. Until now, I have been using separate XIB files.
Can you please explain to me the steps for doing this?
What you want to do is important, if you want your app to just run on both iphone and ipad, you can go to project Summary and then in devices select "Universal" option. This will just run your app in both iphone and ipad(full screen and not 2x). But if you want to look it better then you have to manage your UI assets accordingly.
I was recently developed a big project on iPhone in Xcode version 4.1.
Now i need to convert this app for iPad.
I have verified so many links but all are regardig Xcode 3 ond it's extensions.
How to upgrade, how to resize the view etc etc
Please help me. Thanks in advance
Your best bet would be to create two new projects, one for iPhone, and the other universal and see what differences are in place there, especially the app delegates.
Quite a lot of the things won't be needed, however the app initialisation need some consideration, and most views tend to happily scale up to ipad resolutions without much or any additional work.
That was how I added iPad support into one of my apps I was writing anyway.
Depends how your app is build. If you are using Builder in XCode you can simply create new xib for each controller/view you have in app and name it with suffix ~ipad.
So if you for example have MyController.xib you will create MyController~ipad.xib and your controller will be loaded from this file automatically when run on iPad.
Changing the project preferences to universal gives you the possibility to specify a second MainWindow.xib in the info.plist file (Main Nib file base name (iPad)) which is the starting point for your iPad Interface. At this point running the app on an iphone would load your original interface and running on an iPad gives you the blank window once you created the corresponding blank MainWindow file.
Edit: You need also a second AppDelegate that holds the reference to your new window.
how can i transform an iPhone only app to an universal application?
EDIT : FOUND SOLUTION
If you want to have the "Upgrade current target to iPad" option selected, you must have Target Device Family set to iPhone only, not iPad/iPhone. It works for me!
If you want to do it manually, first create a dummy/template Universal app, look at the differences between it and your app, and change your app to eliminate those differences. Among the steps:
Create iPad subdirectories.
Create suitable xibs for the iPad in that subdirectory. Interface Builder has a menu item to convert generic .xibs automatically.
Modify your info.plist (add the NSMainNibFile~ipad key) to use an iPad xib for the iPad main window. Also add appropriate icons, etc. to this plist.
Either create new subclasses for the iPad, or use modify your existing subclasses to check the UI paradigm and select the appropriate UI subelements & sizes in code. You can check in code using something like:
if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad) {
...
} else {
... // iPhone stuff, etc.
}
If you created new classes, plug them into the iPad xibs as needed.
Modify all your Target settings to build for iPad and iPhone.
"The first step is to select your target in Xcode, right-click and use the “Upgrade Current Target for iPad…” command. You will presented with a choice:
Select “One Universal application” and Xcode will do (some) of the hard work for us. The Apple guidelines warn against trying to manually migrate your target though to be honest it is hard to really see why. Also note that if your project has more than one target you can only run the upgrade task once. You will need to check all of your targets and adjust the build and Info.plist settings yourself."
http://useyourloaf.com/blog/2010/4/7/converting-to-a-universal-app-part-i.html
I would like to know if it's possible to compile the same Xcode project for both iPhone and iPad, automatically changing the xib file according to the platform. The project will contain both xib files. If this is possible, how can be done?
Thanks
You can create Universal application which contains both kind of application supporting.
Create new Xcode project > Window based application in that select Universal from drop down menu.
it will provide you two different files one for iphone and another for ipad.
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