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AtkinsonCM
AtkinsonCM

Reputation: 376

Develop apps for the iPad 3's retina display without lion?

Is Xcode 4.3.1 (and therefore lion) required to develop apps for the iPad 3's retina display?

Or is there a way to develop for the new device using Xcode 4.2? I'm not running lion yet.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1688

Answers (3)

ErezSO
ErezSO

Reputation: 362

This small hack may be able to help you: it presents how you could install the 5.1 SDK with an older version of Xcode that works on Snow Leopard.

http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/100229-snow-leopard-sdk-5-1-a.html

Upvotes: 1

AndyDunn
AndyDunn

Reputation: 1084

It turns out you do need to develop using Lion and iOS 5.1. If you don't build with the latest SDK then the @2x graphics won't show up in the app.

Upvotes: 0

sch
sch

Reputation: 27536

If you are asking about iOS the iOS 5.1 sdk, then you will have to update to Lion and Xcode 4.3.1 to get it.

But as to the Retina display of the iPad 3, there is nothing special about it in the new sdk. So you can develop apps for the iPad 3 using Xcode 4.2. Just make sure you take into account the high resolution of the device when working with images and other graphics as you do with the iPhone Retina Display.

Upvotes: 2

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