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Reputation: 2912

Non retina iPad app working fine on retina display iPad

I have a iPad app which is NOT modified for the new iPad with retina display. But, to my surprise(pleasant) the app is working great without any issues in the retina display iPad. The graphics are just the same. I dont even see any pixelation issues. Can some one explain me the reason behind this? Did apple do something from their end in order to get the non retina apps to work the same way in retina display iPad?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 531

Answers (2)

Philip Sheard
Philip Sheard

Reputation: 5815

The same applies to the retina iPhone. Text is displayed in a double density font, and any embedded images are also displayed x2. In most cases the only change that you make for retina displays is to add double density images, but that is optional.

Edit: This also works with iPhone apps running on the iPad, with one massive gotcha. If an iPhone only app runs on the iPad, it is displayed double density, in portrait mode. But the only way that a developer can actually get his app onto an iPad is to mark it as universal, which means that it loses this support.

Upvotes: 2

EmilioPelaez
EmilioPelaez

Reputation: 19884

Text and framework images are in high resolution, without the explicit need of the application to do anything.

What does look different are the images you provide with your app, so if your app has a custom UI that is not retina ready, it will look bad.

Upvotes: 2

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