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.
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Here is a screen shot of an ipad 10.5 inch running my app which takes up around 50% of the screen real estate. How do I force the app to use 100% of the screen real estate? (I am using xcode 10)
You have to specify it in Xcode. If you don't the ipad is getting a scaled up version of ui for iPhone 4. Open Xcode and specify it "General" project settings.
May be your IOS setting preference is wrong. You are opening your application on ipad but XCode rendering your application as iPhone app.
Go to general setting and select "iPad" in Deployment Info section.
Go to Build Setting and select "iPad" in Targeted Device Families under Deployment section.
Restart your project.
Please suggest me.How to solve this.
I got this reason from iTunes Store**"iPhone Apps must also run on iPad without modification, at iPhone resolution, and at 2X iPhone 3GS resolution"**
But I built in only for iPhone.
I got answer of my question.But i didn't change anything in my code.I submitted the same build to the AppStore.App store is accepted my same binary,This is worked for me.
In order to determine if your app is running in iPhone resolution on iPad, embed this code in you opening view controller class:
-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
NSLog(#"width = %f, height = %f", self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height);
}
If your app is displayed in iPhone resolution, you will see this in the output console:
width = 320.000000, height = 480.000000
I had the same app rejection reason and it turned out that in FACT my app WAS in iPhone resolution on the iPad, but in iPhone 4 resolution (which I didn't design it for) which made it look like it was in iPad resolution even though it wasn't. Apple has dropped support for the iPhone 4 with iOS 8 and will likely drop support for iPhone 4S with iOS 9, so I neglected to design the app for iPhone 4 which meant that some of my UI elements at the bottom of the screen were not visible on the iPad displaying iPhone 4 resolution. That was the reason for the rejection (really dumb since it's not even an iPad app).
This is what I got back from Apple Developer Technical Support:
While your app may be built for iPhone or iPod, it must still run on
iPad. Did you test your app on an iPad prior to submission? If you
don't have an actual iPad device to test with, many issues that lead
to a 2.10 rejection can be spotted by testing in the iPad simulator.
I'll go over a couple of the most common ones here:
1) Controls or Important Content That Underlap the Status Bar
If your app places controls or important content in the twenty points
below the top of the screen, they will be cutoff when the app is run
on a retina iPad [1]. This can lead to a poor user experience. Make
sure that your app positions controls and important content below the
status bar. You can use the topLayoutGuide property from within your
UIViewController instance to access the current status bar height.
You can also create Auto Layout constraints between the topLayoutGuide
and your view controller's subviews to ensure they remain positioned
below the status bar at all times.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIViewController_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UIViewController/topLayoutGuide
2) Authoring Your Interface Specifically For the 4" Screen
Both the iPad and iPad retina simulate a retina 3.5" display when
running iPhone apps. This means that content positioned 480 points or
more below the top of the screen will not be visible when the app is
run on an iPad (or an iPhone 4, and iPhone 4s for that matter). This
can lead to a poor user experience. Make sure that you have designed
your interface to adapt to any height. This means either adopting
Auto Layout[2] or overriding
-viewWillLayoutSubviews/-viewDidLayoutSubviews in your view controllers to manually position your elements for the given screen
size. If your app displays more content than will fit on a 3.5"
screen, consider placing it in a scroll view.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/WindowsViews/Conceptual/UIScrollView_pg/Introduction/Introduction.html
Before we continue, please try running your app on either an iPad
device or the iPad simulator (both the regular and retina). See if
you can spot either of the above issues in your app. If you can't,
send me screenshots from your tests and we'll work from there.
[1]: When an iPhone app is run on a retina iPad, a 20 point black bar
is overlaid atop the app's window, obscuring any content underneath
it.
[2]: To get started with Auto Layout, you'll want to watch the
Introduction to Auto Layout for iOS and OS X session from WWD 2012
https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/?id=202 followed by the
Auto Layout by Example session from WWDC 2012
https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/?id=232.
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'm having difficulty displaying the standard iPhone frame when running the iOS 7.0 simulator in XCode 5.0. I've tried numerous approaches to fix this, including:
Hooking up my laptop to a larger monitor (the screen resolution is 1920 x 1200).
Making sure the window is scaled to 100% (as stated in the Apple Docs).
Selecting each of the different iPhone devices to test it out on.
Adding my own custom .png iPhone image to the simulator by going to Applications > R-click on XCode > Show Package Contents > Contents > Developer > Platforms > iPhoneSimulator.platform > Developer > Applications > R-click on iOS Simulator > Show Package Contents > Contents > Resources.
Still, all the iPhone simulators display as a window (except, quite oddly, the 3.5-inch iPhone simulator which shows up with an iPad frame):
http://imgur.com/q1dhxx8
I've never had this issue before in older versions of XCode. Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help!
The frame only appears if there is a sufficiently large resolution to display both the simulator and frame. On that display, you will only be able to have the frame if you rotate the external 1920x1200 monitor to portrait mode.
To have the frame of a retina 4" phone simulator, have your display in portrait (1200x1920) and rotate the display in OS X by 90 or 270 degrees. Have the simulator in that display. The frame will appear.
That is how all of the retina based devices are displayed in the iOS simulator. It shows all of the retina based devices with no phone frame, like you have seen. All of the devices that run iOS 7 have retina displays, which results in the simulator displaying them the way they do. The simulator with the phone frame is a non-retina example using iOS 6 and prior.
I am porting my iPhone app to the iPad (I did a straight copy of the iPhone code, renamed it, and set the mainwindow.xib size to iPhone/iPod).
I don't see anything that will allow me to resize the newly renamed app to iPad. How do I do that?
Apparently it can't be easily done. I gave up and re-wrote the app.