Artifacts on iOS 8 simulator when using xcassets - ios

I'm facing a strange issue, after adding all my images to a xcasset, my app looks malformed (see screenshot) when running it on iOS 8 simulator. Each image is full of artifacts. Before, all my images were simply added to main bundle, and everything worked. I don't have a device with iOS 8 to test on it. Also it works well on versions above iOS 8. If you have any guesses what is the problem, please tell me.

Ideal is to support three iOS versions, the current version and the previous two versions.
Try below steps:
Remove all caches from User's Library
Remove all derived data content of Xcode
Clean
Clear Trash
Quit Xcode
Open Xcode
Build
It should help you.
Currently 92% devices are running iOS 10 or above
References (apple.com)

If the images do not contain alpha channel - try adding it, otherwise try removing it.
Also check this option (causes similar problems from time to time):
How can I skip compressing one PNG?

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Xamarin iOS - publish fails, started happening after iOS 13 update

had anyone see this issue, not able to publish to app store.
tried everything re-doing the icons, asset catalog, used mac machine, etc
any suggestions?
You are missing a required image on your iOS project. In order to verify this:
Open your iOS project in Visual Studio,
And most likely inside the Resources folder, you will see the Images.xcassets.
When you open that, you will see "AppIcon" on the top.
Open that and you will see several empty slots. If you hover over them, they will tell you what dimensions are needed.
Drag and drop two pictures in the empty location that is required and it should fill up as shown in the picture below:
Most likely, you are missing the iPhone Spotlight 3x or iPhone App 2x image.
issue raised here is the reason for my builds failing
issue
installing this package breaks everything.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/ImageCropper.Forms/

Xcode Error on Simulator: MGIsDeviceOneOfType is not supported on this platform

I have a very simple application with a single view, containing several UILabels. Upon running in Simulator, the Xcode console returns the error:
libMobileGestalt MobileGestalt.c:875: MGIsDeviceOneOfType is not supported on this platform.
The Simulator itself just shows a white screen. I've also tried running it on a developer device with the same white screen. I've searched documentation but can't find any reference to MGIsDeviceOneOfType.
The application is written in Swift in Xcode 10 beta on macOS 10.14. I am attempting to run it on the iPhone 7-X Simulators, as well as a development iPhone 7, all running the target software (12.0).
MobileGestalt
The libMobileGestalt.dylib provides a central repository for all of the iOS's properties. It can be analogous to OS X's Gestalt, which is part of CoreServices. OS X's Gestalt is documented for example Gestalt Manager and has been deprecated as of 10.8. MobileGestalt is entirely undocumented by Apple as it is a private library.
MobileGestalt allows for the testing of system properties that may or may not be compatible on different simulators.
Quite a few system processes and apps in iOS rely on MobileGestalt, which is located at /usr/lib/libMobileGestalt.dylib. It's more of a basic library, but its exposed APIs follow the Apple framework conventions and uses the MG API prefix for example MGIsDeviceOneOfType.
If you look for MobileGestalt on the iOS filesystem you won't find it - like all private frameworks and libraries, it has been prelinked into the /System/Library/Caches/...etc. If you like hacking and pen-testing then you can use tools to extract it.
MobileGestalt provides plenty of information - around 200 or so queries - on various aspects of the system. Here are a few.
libMobileGestalt.dylib
//Answers to MG queries
MGCopyAnswer(#"5MSZn7w3nnJp22VbpqaxLQ");
MGCopyAnswer(#"7mV26K/1a+wTtqiunvHMUQ");
MGCopyAnswer(#"BasebandAPTimeSync");
MGCopyAnswer(#"BasebandPostponementStatus");
MGCopyAnswer(#"BasebandPostponementStatusBlob");
MGCopyAnswer(#"BasebandSecurityInfoBlob");
MGCopyAnswer(#"BasebandStatus");
MGCopyAnswer(#"BuildVersion");
MGCopyAnswer(#"CoreRoutineCapability");
MGCopyAnswer(#"DeviceClass");
MGCopyAnswer(#"DeviceClassNumber");
MGCopyAnswer(#"DeviceName");
MGCopyAnswer(#"DeviceSupports1080p");
MGCopyAnswer(#"DeviceSupports720p");
MGCopyAnswer(#"DiskUsage");
MGCopyAnswer(#"GSDeviceName");
MGCopyAnswer(#"HWModelStr");
MGCopyAnswer(#"HasBaseband");
MGCopyAnswer(#"InternalBuild");
MGCopyAnswer(#"InverseDeviceID");
MGCopyAnswer(#"IsSimulator");
MGCopyAnswer(#"MLBSerialNumber");
MGCopyAnswer(#"MaxH264PlaybackLevel");
MGCopyAnswer(#"MinimumSupportediTunesVersion");
MGCopyAnswer(#"PasswordConfigured");
MGCopyAnswer(#"PasswordProtected");
MGCopyAnswer(#"ProductType");
MGCopyAnswer(#"ProductVersion");
MGCopyAnswer(#"RegionCode");
MGCopyAnswer(#"RegionalBehaviorNTSC");
MGCopyAnswer(#"RegionalBehaviorNoPasscodeLocationTiles");
MGCopyAnswer(#"ReleaseType");
MGCopyAnswer(#"SIMStatus");
There are hundreds more e.g. AirplaneMode, MobileEquipmentIdentifier, etc.
MobileGestalt maintains a table of OSType selector codes.
for example c:890 in the message: libMobileGestalt MobileGestalt.c:890: MGIsDeviceOneOfType is not supported on this platform. In this case MGIsDeviceOneOfType is a method/property of the MobileGestalt library.
Instead of checking the simulator version there is a separate selector for directly querying the capabilities of the simulator. The messages most likely indicate incompatibilities between simulator versions and Xcode versions and/or unsupported APIs on the simulator.
I've successfully dropped it with the disabling of the project garbage.
Go to <Name of your Project>->Scheme->Edit Scheme Then go to Run (menu to the left side) and add the following environment variable:
Name:OS_ACTIVITY_MODE, Value: disable
in my case: check your app delegate for method - didFinishLaunching. I had private and get the error. After remove "private" everything works fine
I just installed Xcode 10 Beta and had the same problem. Ran Xcode 9.4.1 and the problem went away.
This error will only occur when testing/debugging on simulators.
The newer the simulator the better.
Case: I run simulator iPhone 8 plus I got this message in the debugger.
Solution: I changed to a newer simulator no error message in the debugger.
Ran into this when opening some project from GitHub on Xcode 10.0.
The pragmatic solution was: just hit 'Continue program execution' multiple times and probably disable your exception breakpoint. Apparently the exception was recoverable.
It's not a real solution but it was good enough for me at that point.
In my case, the Target's Deployment Target was at iOS 8. When I pushed it up to iOS 10.3, it ran fine, both on the Simulator and the device.
Am seeing this problem. Using Xcode 10.1. Created a brand new project - doesn't do anything except show a white screen. Discovered it was showing up on simulator for older devices. For example, iPad Pro (12.9 inch) and iPad Pro (12.9 inch) (2nd generation) show the problem, but problem is gone for iPad Pro (12.9 inch) (3rd generation). Does not show up for iPhone XR simulator.
Basically seems annoying.
If you have fonts provided by the app, you need to add to Info.plist
And check if the file have the Target Membership selected
I had the same issue, but with MapKit, where a MapView did not show up, just the white screen and the same error, MGIsDeviceOneOfType is not supported on this platform.
Solved it by fixing "Ambiguous layout" warnings tied to the MapView object. Now it's working perfectly fine, and the errors went away.
The regular way when strange errors happens helped:
1) Clean project;
2) Shut down simulator;
3) Reinstall pods.
Xcode 10.
For me, with the simulator in question in focus, I selected Hardware->Erase all content and settings.
After the simulator restarted, launching my app worked again, as expected.
I went to XCode -> Preferences -> Components
Ticked all the simulators and the check box to install updates automatically, and then "check and Install now" and went away for a few hours while they all updated.
Now the problem is gone - so in fact, it's as mentioned. New XCode with Old - non-updated simulators.
What worked for me was to change within general > Deployment Info > Main Interface to CDVLaunchScreen and do the same within general > App Icons and Launch Images > Launch Screen File to CDVLaunchScreen as well.
I come from Ionic, so this might not be a problem for those who develop in Swift / Objective-C.
I have recently updated to Xcode 10.2 and when I tried to run a project created in earlier version, Same error occurred.
The problem was that simulator was running before updating Xcode.
Solution was very simple for me to quit Simulator and restart so that it can get the new changes. I don't think the model of the simulator (iPhone SE or iPhone X) matters. You just need to restart your simulator for it to take effect of new update.
I would recommend to quit both Xcode and simulator and restart your Mac.
I got this error by calling .sync on the main queue which caused a deadlock (DispatchQueue.main.sync {}). I meant to call .async.
I got this error, when trying to read a json file which is inside my project and it returned nil, due to that i got this error.
I got nil because of some spelling mistake in the font name, that json file was holding the font names, after copy pasting the font name i got data and the error fixed.
I tried allmost all of the solutions given above, nothing worked, So debug with patience, you will get to know which is causing this error and in some bad time xcode will play in our life :)
I was facing same problem but I've successfully dropped it with below things:
Shutdown simulator,
Shutdown Xcode,
Re-open Xcode and simulator
I hope it will help.

Local resources not loading on iOS 9.3.1 physical devices

As the title says, none of my local resources are loading on iOS 9.3.1 physical devices (neither images in an ImageView, neither translations, neither other files via Ti.Filesystem.getFile()). The following code results in a blank, white image (even though the image definitely exists on the filesystem):
Ti.UI.createImageView({
width : Ti.UI.FILL,
height : Ti.UI.FILL,
image : '/images/bg01.jpg'
});
The above code runs and displays correctly on all combinations of the iOS simulator, and on a physical 7.1 iOS device (as well as all Android devices and emulators). Unfortunately I don't have access to a physical 9.3.1 device so I cannot see the logs.
This is using Titanium SDK 5.2.2GA.
Can you try using png files in case you are using only jpg files and share a snapshot of your directory layout so that we can confirm nothing wrong with the directory or file names ?
But as you have also said that it is working on all simulators, so I assume that it is working on iOS 9.x versions as well, in this case you really need to test your app on physical device.
Apart from this, I can test your code on my iPhone 9.3.1 as I usually work on 9.3.1 and never faced such odd issue, so either provide us full/some code which is having issues or test it on real device.
It might be an issue with the device itself.
First make sure the case is right. If I recall correctly the simulators are not case-sensitive but the physical devices are?
I have ran into this issue using xCode. For some reason images are left our as well as the Localizable.strings files. I have yet to figure out a way around this and I have to manually add them to the xCode project.
See this for help TIMOB-19818. Christopher.fox comment is the one that lead me to solving my issue.

Building with iOS7 produces iOS6 looking widgets

After moving to XCode 5 and the iOS7 base SDK, some of the UI widgets in my app still look like iOS6-style (gradients, frames) on iOS7 devices. This doesn't happen on the equivalent emulator for iOS7. This also doesn't happen for all widgets, UIDocumentInteractionController's popup looks like iOS7 on device, but UIPopoverController doesn't. The keyboard for renaming a file also shows this discrepancy between emulator and device.
How does iOS determine the visual style of UI elements? Is it based on a statically linked library or something determined at runtime? I've tried purging the app from the device completely, but no change.
Emulator for retina iPad: UIPopoverController
iPad 3rd gen with iOS 7: UIPopoverController
The code in this case is fairly straightforward, no customization of the rendering or layout.
self.poController = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:audioCopyController];
[audioCopyController showDoneButton:NO];
audioCopyController.view.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,350,250);
_poController.popoverContentSize = audioCopyController.view.bounds.size;
_poController.delegate = self;
[_poController presentPopoverFromRect:view.audiocopyButton.frame
inView:view
permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionDown
animated:YES];
Thanks for the help in advance.
Check you Project config file and Target config file.
It is probably set with an iOS 6.X base SDK.
For this:
Go to your project config file in Xcode 5
Click the Build Settings tab
Edit the base SDK field to switch it to iOS 7.
Sometimes, we've experienced issues with Xcode not taking the current setting into account.
Changing it and compiling helps it understand that it needs to be changed.
Make sure you configure this correctly for your Project config and each and every target config file you run this from.
You might well have 2 different targets for simulator and for your devices.
Hope this helps
Regards
David
Ok, I found out what the problem was. David's suggestion got me thinking.
I am maintaining multiple apps at the same time, and one of them is quite old. The new Interface Builder in XCode5 breaks the transparency for a lot of the fields in the old app so I was keeping XCode4 in a separate installation folder alongside of XCode5. It seems that somehow my XCode5 project was still pointing at the SDK folders of XCode4 (not sure how this was possible, looking at the actual linker command line would probably shed some light), so after deleting XCode4's 6.1 SDK folder from my machine, a clean build with XCode 5 produced the correct iOS 7-looking widgets in my iOS-supported app.
The moral of the story is, be very careful with multiple XCode/SDK installations on the same machine. Hopefully this can help other folks who may be trying something similar to provide support for legacy apps.

Storyboard won't update in simulator

I have a working app in Xcode, however when I try to build and run it the simulator displays an older version of the storyboard I was working on. I had changed some of the design on the storyboard but this does not reflect in the simulator, nothing is updated.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Delete the App on the simulator.
Clean
List item
Build & Run
Use NSLog(#"") in your controller to check code execution.
I just spent at least 6 hours on this. I have a solution, but I also submitted a technical support ticket to apple to try to get more info on the cause and proper solution.
Simply remove the references to your storyboard files and add them back in the same file group.
This seems to include the storyboard files back into the app bundle generated during build(which can be seen in the
DerivedData/APPNAME/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimultator/APPNAME.app
From here I can see my changes reflected from the storyboards as expected.
PS - Are you using localization at all? I was.
I lost 2 hours to this.
Solution was braindead simple: delete app, turn OFF the iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1), and turn it bavk on.
When you turn on localization,
xcode moves storyboard file in localization folder (ex. Base.lproj/name.storyboard). When you build and run project on simulator, xcode copy name.storyboard into "derivedData"/Base.lproj/name.storyboard, but previous, created before localization "derivedData"/name.storyboard still exists. In this case simulator uses the file which can be found easier, i.e simulator uses old file "derivedData"/name.storyboard to operate.
Solution: Just rename the storyboard file, in navigator and in targets/general.
This error happened to me for the first time when I had multiple copies of a project on my computer. For whatever reason, the fact that there were multiple copies were making it look as if the storyboard had not been updated between copies and in some cases the code was not updated. I thought I had forgotten to throw the right copy on my flash drive before going home, but it turned out it's an XCode error.
Delete any multiple copies using the same name, restart XCode and open your most recent copy. Extremely bizarre, but I will probably use BitBucket or GitHub from now on instead of throwing it on a flash drive.
Deleting
~/Library/Developer/Xcode/derivedData/
worked for me!
I just have the same problem after localizationMy solution is clicking Product, Clean build folder. Then it will be fine
The storyboard on the simulator was what it should have been. The storyboard on the device would not update. I had to delete the application from the iPhone and then re-run it on the device in order to get the Storyboard to update on the device. Fortunately for me it was only test data, but I was using Auto-Layout on one view and went back to manual. I think that's what caused the issue for me.
I find that removing and adding storyboard file back doesn't work in my case, also it has side effects like it will automatically add a main nib entry into App's plist file (which subsequently makes the App fails to launch in iPhone simulator).
I don't want to try to delete the application from the simulator since I have many files under the Document directory of the App.
At last I find another way that works well: simply delete the "/Users/$username/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/7.1/Applications/$app/$yourapp.app" file. The files under Documents directory are untouched.
(I have localized my storyboard as well.)
I found this same thing happened with Xcode 6.1.1 if I happened to have copied a project; the new project run in the simulator was actually still reflecting the old, original project.
In my case the problem was with how the default area was set up for derived data (essentially the location where the binary files go for a build). Mine was set to legacy and the simulator was using the wrong project, even after a clean. The solution was to go to Preferences->Locations, press Advanced, and change the location from Legacy to Unique.
I get this too when using localized storyboards - Run in Xcode just refuses to install the latest version of the compiled storyboard. I think it is something to do with the way Run copies changed resources across to the device - it does it differently than other forms of on device app installation.
The quickest way to get past this without deleting the app and losing any data is to:
Generate an Archive build in Xcode
Export this for Adhoc deployment
Double-click on the generated IPA to add it to iTunes
From the device page in iTunes force an update to that app
In order for iTunes to see that you have a new version your app build number will need to be incremented (if you don't do that already), before generating the archive.
I find this method means you don't have to delete an app off the device, you're just forcing it to install the entire install package rather than a diff which is what I think Run is doing.
I'm not sure what causes this, if it is a localized resources bug or what, but this is still a problem in Xcode 7 for me.

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