I'm following a tutorial which indicates I should select iPhone 8 from the View As panel to change the size of the view controller in Storyboard.
iPhone 8 is not appearing. However it does appear in the list of devices that I can actually run in the Simulator. I'm running Xcode 11.5. Any thoughts?
I'm speculating here, but since Apple discontinued the 8/8+ and the second generation iPhone SE has the same screen size as the 8 (4.7 inches), they most likely dropped it from Xcode. The 8 Plus still has a unique screen size in the iPhone line-up. You can use the SE gen 2 in place of the 8 for storyboard layout.
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My app is supposed to run only on Iphone but apple is testing it on Ipad too. Apparently, the apps can run in Iphone mode on Ipads. How do I know which Ipad will run which Iphone mode (ex: ipad mini air2 = iphone 5 view settings in iphone mode?)?
How can I change the size of my UI based on changing aspect ratio programmatically ? (My views are created through code).
The iPad Pro runs an iPhone 6. The iPad 2 and Air 2 run an iPhone 4s.
I don't know if there's official documentation for this, but what I did is create a sample app and set the Devices to iPhone only. Then I added
print(self.view.frame.size) //Swift
NSLog(#"width = %f, height = %f", self.view.frame.size.width,
self.view.frame.size.height); //Obj-C
in the default ViewController. This will print the screen size of the view only, and not the entire iPad's screen. I then compared the printed value to the printed value of the same app run in iPhone 6/4s. You can try it too.
In terms of changing the size of your UI to fit different screen sizes, your best bet is probably AutoLayout. There are many (free, open source) frameworks available that make creating AutoLayout constraints programatically much simpler.
A few are Stevia, Cartography, SnapKit (Swift) / Masonry (Obj-C), or PureLayout.
As you said your app is supposed to run on iPhone only, then do the following process.
Select your project target in Xcode and goto General in which there is one section Deployment Info
Change the Devices to iPhone from dropdown
this will open app on iPhone only.
I built my app for iPhone 6 plus on the iOS simulator. All the other sizes looked fine but the iPhone 6 plus was zoomed in for some reason. Why does this happen? Would this still happen when it is built to the Appstore ?
Note: I am using unity free version and would not be allowed to change the splash image.
i just opened my existing projects created with Xcode 5 for iOS 7.2.1 in the new Xcode 6 and executed these app on the new iPhone 6 Plus.
The Apps worked so far (except for some corrections due to the Location Manager etc.).
But the Apps view is just scaled to the larger screen. It´s not the native resolution of the 6 Plus.
When i create a new project and add some frame work UI elements like a Button or a TableView, then the native (new) resolution is used.
Which kind of settings has to be changed now to adapt the Storyboards in the existing Apps for the new 6 and 6 Plus screen sizes?
Kind regards
Edit:
I think i found the solution here:
iPhone 6 Plus resolution confusion: Xcode or Apple's website? for development
This is the hint:
Note: Upload LaunchImages otherwise the App will run scaled and not show correct scaling, or screen sizes. In scaling mode the nativeScale and scale will not be the same.
In iPad i am using split view controller (one of my existing apps). Using Xcode 6 beta: If I launch the iPad simulator(s) with the device in portrait orientation it only shows the detail view and not the master view as well (and no "master" back button). If I rotate then to landscape all appears fine, rotate back to portrait and the "master"back button appears and can then access the master table view. With previous versions of Xcode the split view launches in portrait view.
I also noticed this, it seems to be a bug in Xcode 6 and iOS Simulator 8. You can send a bug report to Apple here
I had the same issue when running my app on the iOS8 simulator using xCode6-beta2. However, when I ran the app on my iOS7 device, the master view title showed up correctly. Sounds like an iOS8 issue.
I have made an app, which has a custom input view, it works fine on the ios 4.3.3 and ios 5.1.1 as well as the new ios 6 if compiled using xcode 4.3 with the base SDK 4 but after updating xcode to the latest version and compiling using the ios 6 sdk the input view does not work anymore. if input button are taped the text doesn't show in the textField. Does anyone encounter this problem or now its cause ?
Make sure that you are initializing your custom input view with a frame that has a width or height larger than zero. From what I can tell, if this isn't the case then iOS 6 doesn't even add the view to the view hierarchy.
In my case, the width of my keyboard view's frame was zero when calling initWithFrame:(CGRect). Everything worked fine in iOS 5, as the frame width would get set during layout, but in iOS 6 the keyboard wasn't even in the view hierarchy.
I used iOS Hierarchy Viewer to figure that last bit out with having to fiddle in the debugger too much.