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iosuitableviewautolayoutuicollectionviewcellsize-classes
bneely
bneely

Reputation: 9093

Distinct UITableViewCell / UICollectionViewCell metrics between iPhone 6 Plus and all other smaller screens

I have an iOS app that currently supports all screen sizes of iPhone and iPod touch (but not iPad), only in portrait orientation. The app supports iOS 7 and newer. My visual designer suggested increasing some metrics within certain UITableViewCell and UICollectionViewCell instances when displaying on the iPhone 6 Plus. For example, the image cell that shows an icon or a contact photo will be about 25% larger (by points) only on iPhone 6 Plus.

After reading this Adaptive Size Design article at apple.com, I see that iPhone 6 Plus does not have a distinct size class from smaller screen devices when in portrait orientation. Does this mean that I should detect the screen resolution and handle the iPhone 6 Plus-specific metrics in code instead of the xib? Or is there a way to handle this in the xib that I haven't come across yet?

In code, I could easily specify an alternate xib to load for iPhone 6 Plus, but would prefer to only have one xib to support all screen sizes and scale factors. This app might support iPads in the future, but not right now.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 243

Answers (1)

cmyr
cmyr

Reputation: 2275

Yes: if you wish to display a distinct UI on the 6+ in portrait, you're going to have to do it programmatically, either by using UIScreen or UIDevice to identify when you're running on that hardware.

Upvotes: 1

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