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Abdou Sarr
Abdou Sarr

Reputation: 152

Retina 4 inch app, to also work on 3.5

I see some people asking how to get their 3.5-inch apps to support a 4-inch display. I'm asking the opposite. I originally built this app to work on the iPhone (4-inch) and iPad, but I also want it to work on the iPhones with 3.5 inch screens. (I want to scale it down without warping the image).

Any tips?

4 inch (Working just fine):

enter image description here

3.5 inch (Not scaling at all with Auto Resize on):

enter image description here

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1205

Answers (2)

Abdou Sarr
Abdou Sarr

Reputation: 152

Thanks for all you help guys! I fixed it by making two separate storyboards for each size and used this code in my .m file:

-(void) checkScreen {

if(UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone)
{
    CGSize result = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size;
    if(result.height == 480)
    {
        UIStoryboard *iPhone5Storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MainStoryboard_iPhone" bundle:nil];

    }
    if(result.height == 568)
    {
        UIStoryboard *iPhone4Storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MainStoryboard_iPhone copy" bundle:nil];

    }
}

}

Upvotes: 1

bobnoble
bobnoble

Reputation: 5824

To expand a bit on Aaron Golden's comment (e.g., the need to have separate launch images), you will also need to come up with a scheme to maximize the reuse of your images across devices. This is due to the different aspect ratios of each of the devices.

One approach to consider is to create a background pattern that you want for your background (apply to your views by setting the background color, with the color created from the UIColor colorWithPattern method). You may be able to use the same background pattern across all the devices. Then use a "foreground" image on top of the background. That way you may be able to use, for example, your swirl image on both the 3.5" and 4" iPhones.

Upvotes: 0

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