My background and my icons are all huge, like it's zoomed in 2x. Any ideas why?
Check the images in the app- there should be two sets of images, with one set being at double resolution and suffixed with "#2x". If there's just one set and they seem large, odds are the developer never intended the app to be run on a device that's not running iOS4 (which seems odd, but there it is).
That's because the apps in iOS 4 are targeted for iPhone/iPod 4 which have a resolution of 960 x 640, whereas iOS 3 has a resolution of 480 x 320. Do read about Retina Display of iOS for further details.
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My app scales the same on iPhone 6 and 6 plus as on the 5. I'm trying to get the app to use the extra screen space on the larger phone. I've read about using the appropriate size launch images, but it only works in the simulator, not on the device. I added a 750x1334 launch image for the iPhone 6, and the various sizes for the other devices. When I launch in the simulator, the scaling takes place as expected. When I launch on the device, the screen scales to the iPhone 4s scale instead.
I tried starting over with the launch images, and adding one at a time. Whenever I add the 750x1334 for the Retina HD 4.7, the app on the phone scales to iPhone 4 size. I tried deleting the app and reinstalling but the same thing happens. Also, I notice now that when I put in the Retina HD 4.7 image, it also causes the same thing to happen on my iPhone 5, even though there is an appropriate launch image for that size device.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDITED TO ADD: My wife's iPhone 6 Plus just came in and it does not exhibit the above behavior (but remains a problem with iPhone 6 and 5).
I was able to achieve the desired result through doing the following:
1) leave in place my old Launch Images Source configuration set that covered iPhone 4 and 5. This takes care of iOS 7 devices.
2) create and designate a Launch Screen File in XIB. This takes care of all devices on iOS 8.
3) On iPhone 6, under Settings --> Display and Brightness --> Display Zoom, choose Standard instead of Zoomed. Users who have Zoomed will see the screen scaled to the same as that of iPhone 5.
Apple seems only to have included a retina version of the iPhone 5 (4-inch) simulator. This is great, but way too big to fit on my screen. Almost 35% is cut off, and I have a 23-inch monitor.
Are there any workarounds/hacks to make it fully display on my screen? Is it likely that Apple might include a non-retina (just normal sized) iPhone 5 simulator?
They have it for the iPhone 4, so not sure why they wouldn't include the same thing for iPhone 5..
If you look in Scale in the Window menu, you can make the simulator window 50% or 75% size.
Just hit command-1, 2 or 3 to scale.
if I changed app graphics for iphone 5 , is it going to work for iphone 4, 3GS properly or the users have to resize the app like when you download iphone app in iPad ?
If you mean you are using both normal sized images and 2x images for retina display, you won't have a problem on older devices.
They'll just pickup the regular sized images while the ones with retina display will load the #2x ones.
What you do have to take into account is that if you don't include regular sized images (if you only use #2x images), older devices won't load them.
#2X will still work. However I did download xcode 4.5 with iOS 6 Gold Master seeds and played with it last night. The splash screen will include the new slightly higher resolution image 11??x640 as well as the 960x640 and 480x360.
For fullscreen images, you will have to supply at least two versions, better three.
One being 640 × 1136, one being 640 x 960 and one being 320 x 480.
For the 3.5" retina version, you may use the automatic selection (aka #2x). For the former 4" retina version it appears as if you will have to include your own code to select the right one.
For our iPhone app, we are using 50 x 50 user image (from facebook). It works fine for iPhone 3G and 3GS but not for iPhone 4 due to its high resolution display. For iPhone 4 we tried to send 100 x 100 (variable height) image but it is not working for obvious reasons. Any thought?
You don't need to do anything different for the Retina Display. Using exactly the same image as you have on the older iPhone will work exactly the same.
If you have a higher resolution image that you'd like to display instead, then if you save the file with a #2x suffix then, if the device has a Retina display, it will pick that instead. In most cases it should not require any extra code.
What pixels per inch settings do iOS 4 graphics need to be to support the high resolution display? Should I just use the standard 72, or should I specifically make images that are 320x480#163ppi and 640x960#326ppi? Or, should I just make images those dimensions and not worry about the resolution (i.e. leave it at the default 72)?
I'm not concerned about the iPad, only iPhone 3/GS, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch users.
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I realize this isn't about code, per se, but it is related to programming in so much as this is necessary for me to finish my iOS application ;)
Icon and image sizes are documented at https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/graphics/custom-icons/
326 ppi as that is the resolution of the retina display. They will resize/resample automatically on lower resolution displays.
Here is some more guidance:
http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/iphone/preparing-your-iphone-app-for-higher-resolutions/