I'am creating a Mac OS application in which user will choose a font to display a text. All fonts will be in an application folder in finder. I need a code (swift or objective-c) to load it directly (without installing) to Xcode so user feel free to add any font to the folder to use.
iPad Pro requires 167x167 App icon and 2732 x 2048 (landscape) launch image. But where should I put them? Xcode 7.1 Asset Catalogs don't provide any place to add iPad Pro specific icons or images.
My launch image is size specific, so using storyboard for this isn't a good option.
Apple commented on this issue: "Latest beta (7.2b3) added 83.5#2x app icon slot to asset catalogs, and Developer relations reported in a radar comment that they no longer support launch images and will not be adding the iPad pro launch image size to asset catalogs."
Taken from here.
Use Launch Screen storyboard.
You can also disable Launch Screen File and Launch Images Source from project General settings and use the old way - define all Launch Images in Info.plist.
Info.plist:
<key>UILaunchImages</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>UILaunchImageMinimumOSVersion</key>
<string>8.0</string>
<key>UILaunchImageName</key>
<string>DefaultPro-Landscape</string>
<key>UILaunchImageOrientation</key>
<string>Landscape</string>
<key>UILaunchImageSize</key>
<string>{1366, 1024}</string>
</dict>
...
</array>
More info about UILaunchImages in Info.plist in this post:
How do I create launch images for iPhone 6 / 6 Plus Landscape Only Apps?
You should use Launch Screen Files for iPad Pro instead of Launch Images.
First, from iPad Pro, iOS don't support Launch Images, so you can not find the right sizes for iPad Pro's launch images in Xcode 7.1.
Second, if you don't use Launch Screen File, you app running on iPad Pro will be scaled, which is so called 'Display Zoom'.
It looks like you'll need to use the Launch Screen storyboard or xib file to support launch screens specific for iPad Pro.
Per Apple, you should be able to use both the launch image assets to support pre-iOS8, and the Launch Screen file for iOS8+. From the Apple App Distribution Guide :
"For iOS 7 deployment targets, you can supply both a launch screen file and launch images. In iOS 8, the launch screen file is used, and in iOS 7, the launch images are used."
also these docs state:
"If you also need to support earlier versions of iOS, you can continue to supply static launch images in addition to a launch file."
However, in my case even though I have a LaunchScreen.storyboard file, it isn't getting used when I have launch images in an asset catalog. i.e.: I always see the asset catalog launch images instead of the launch screen. I verified the Launch Screen file is set in the info.plist and that it has the "Use as Launch Screen" flag set. I'm also using size classes and auto layout.
If you don't find the "wells" where to put the icons in asset catalogue, perhaps you changed your App settings from iPhone to iPad at a later point and then the iPad "wells" are not visible. You can turn them on by doing this:
The set will only contain image wells for icons that are relevant depending upon your project's configuration at the time the asset catalog was created. If an image well is missing, expand the settings inspector and check the appropriate boxes under the App Icon pane depending upon your project's deployment target and supported devices.
I installed a few apk files for applications and now the icons won't go away from the Launchpad on my Mac.
Is there a file, database or some other location where these are stored?
This isn't exactly my area of expertise, but Chrome is automatically installing icons for apps any Chrome apps you have installed through it.
First Visit chrome://apps, find the app, right click, then "Remove from Chrome".
Next, if the app icons are still showing up in your launcher, it sounds like you need to open the folder "/Users/[your-user-name]/Applications/Chrome Apps" and delete the icons from there that you no longer want.
If you do not remove the apps from Chrome first, the launch pad icons may get recreated the next time you start the browser.
I have created an two installer of java application using install4j.
One for Windows system and one for Mac OS X.
Setup.exe file of windows installer have custom icon which I have given but mac os installer don't have icon which is provided by me even when installing application desktop shortcut also don't have the icon.
So, Can you please help me how to use custom icon for mac application installer.
My file is a png file of 32x32.
In window it is working perfectly but for mac it is not showing my icon on desktop shortcut as well as on application icon.
Am I need to give image with any specific size for mac ?
Please help me setting icon for mac.
Thanks.
You should add icons sizes 16x16, 32x32, 64x64 and 128x128 for optimal performance.
The desktop link icon will come from the icon that has been set for the launcher, not for the installer. install4j will generate ICNS icon files from these images. Alternatively, you can specify your own ICNS files in all icon configurations.
As the title states, is there an equivalent to Click Once application deployment for the Mac?
I ask this because the version of Safari that ships with Lion has removed DMG (disk image) files as a "safe file type" that is opened after downloading. The company I work for has a rather special-purpose application that should launch as soon as it is downloaded.