I'm using the watchOS simulator in order to test my app. For some reason, the system uses an older app icon in the App Switcher than the one being displayed on the home screen, despite my .appiconset containing the same resized image multiple times. What causes this and how can I make the correct icon show up?
This seems to be a caching issue and you should erase all Simulator content and settings in order to see the correct icon again by navigating to Simulator.app/Device/Erase All Content and Settings...
However, personally, I wouldn't worry about this too much, since it's a watchOS bug, not something wrong in your project settings.
I have an iPhone only app but it works in compatibility mode in the iPad too(no surprises).
but after I updated the app for the ios11, app icon on the iPad is missing.
here is what I've tried;
- launch on the iPhone simulator, icon appears
- launch on the iPad simulator, icon is missing
change the device options from "iphone" to "universal", run the iPad simulator, icon appears but app needs a new iPad ui.
change back to "iPhone" and the app icon is missing again in iPad. really confusing.
I tried to create a new project and make the same changes but never able to make the icon missing again.
I'm using cocoa pods if that makes any sense.
I think I'm missing a settings or something else, I'm really trying to find it, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I've found the problem.
In info.plist, there was an extra or problematic entry.
- CFBundleIcons~ipad
Remove this line and iPad icons appear normally.
This problem has been reported by many users over the past 6 months (including desperate pleas to Apple to fix this bug), yet no one's reported the following solution.
I'm using Xcode 9.2, and I noticed today that my iPad/iPhone's application will run fine on my iPad (iOS v11.2.1) but the icon is missing.
This is a legacy app, about 2-3 years old, and the cause seems to be my Appicon file. When I view this file, I see this:
Previously, this resource was sufficient to provide the app icon for both the iPad and iPhone, but apparently, not anymore.
I went into my Images.xcassets file, right-clicked, and selected "App Icons & Launch Images\New IOS App Icon" and now have a look at the extra icon possibilities:
Notice the extra icons for iPads.
Sure enough, I created yet more .png files, with resolutions matching the desired iPad resolutions settings, and now, when I build my app and run it on the iPad, it does show the correct icon.
Oh, and I also needed to go into my project's build settings, select the "General" tab, and change the "App Icons Source" to the name of my new image set, "AppIconNew".
Et voila. No messing around with Cocoapods, no need to change the .plist file (mine didn't have that "CFBundleIcons~ipad" entry anyway), I just needed to create a new image set.
Okay, time to go back to my modern, cosy world of using Visual Studio again now.
(Happy sigh..)
I've had a few legacy apps that did have the CFBundleIcons~ipad in the Info.plist, so I check that first. However, I've also had instances where it was just missing the asset as #Mike Gledhill mentioned. If this is the case, you don't have to go through adding a new AppIcon set. Just check the iPad box in the Attributes Inspector for the current AppIcon assets and the iPad sizes will show in the current set. Then just add the correct assets for each size requirement.
I didn't have CFBundleIcons~ipad entry in my Info.plist file as per "karpat"s answer. So I moved to "Mike Gledhill"s answer, then after observing my all the icons from Image assests, I found that for particular icon which was invisible only on iPad, the device type set was iPhone.
I just changed device type by right cling on image set to Universal :
This did work for me.
I have a problem with a custom splash screen. This is an iphone-only app (meaning it's targeting only iphone in the tiapp.xml), running in the iPad simulator sdk 3.3.0, ios7.1 and Alloy.
The app should run in compatibility mode, the problem is that even though I have all resources inside my assets/ folder, the standard Appcelerator's splash screen briefly appears before the simulator switches to my custom one.
here's the folder structure:
And here's the sequence of images when the app is loaded:
From the last pic, We can still see the appcelerator's icon, so I'm guessing Titanium is loading my custom image on top of the standard one?
Could this be a bug? I figured if Titanium CAN find my img, then it isn't a problem on my end?
The weirdest thing is that I've looked in all folders for this default Appcelerator picture and couldn't find it. I've also tried a clean build & manually deleting the build and Resources generated folders.
Thanks for all the help, this is driving me nuts!
I got this to work after manually deleting the app from the Simulator's system before running the project.
I'm not sure why, but it seems that the simulator somehow 'caches' the last img, and maybe it had this old img of my splash.
I build my Corona app for iPhone Simulator, and it running well. But if I installed my app on my device(iPad), and i have many issues(no scrollview and tabbar working) buttons is visible only.
How to solve the problem?
Look at what happens when you run it in the iPad simulator- Do you get any errors in the console if you check it while running the app on your iPad? If so this could shed some light on the issue. One possibility is a corrupted image, or an incorrect image format.
If only the buttons are visible it sounds like you app has an error that is preventing all of the display objects from loading. (Just based on the fact you mention your buttons display but nothing else.)
When I run my app on the simulator, every time a white blank screen would be generated. but after I black iPhone button on the bottom to exit the app, the views will then be visible after you re-enter the app. then the app run as usual.
But the situation is different when I load it into my iPhone.
Only BLACK blank screen can be seen into the app. after I exit the app and re-enter it, still nothing can be seen, and the app would automatically exit, too.
I dunno why it would be like that as simulator just simulate the real iPhone.
Here is some information:
iOS version of my iPhone: iOS 5
XCode version: XCode 4.2
Hope someone can help me. Thanks a lot.
Make sure that your Base SDK is as high or higher than your current version. Change it in your target settings and your project settings. Also change your compiler to Apple LLVM and your debugger (under edit scheme) to LLDB.