How can I get the default keyboard to be shorter like the keyboard on the right?
The standard keyboard is the left, how do I get it to have the height of the one on the right?
The left keyboard is not taller than the right keyboard— they are the same height, in points. The difference is in the scale of the screen; i.e. the pixels are smaller on the right. Assuming that these are the same device, the difference is caused by one of two things:
The app on the left is not updated to support the higher resolution screens of the iPhone 6 and 6+. To remedy this, you can either specify a .xib as your "Launch Screen File" in the target's General settings, or add a launch image for iPhone 6 and 6+ to your asset catalog.
The app on the left is running on a device which is in "Zoomed" view mode. To change this, follow this path in your Settings app: General > Display & Brightness > View.
Edit: A good tip for recognizing such resolution differences (on an iPhone 6 or 6+) is to watch the clock as an app launches. If it gets bigger, then your device is set to the "Standard" view mode, and the application has not been updated to support iPhone 6/6+ resolutions. If the clock stays the same size, then either the app has been updated to support iPhone 6, or the device is in the "Zoomed" view mode (or both).
You cannot control the height of the keyboard. The keyboard on the left is looks taller because this app hasn't been updated for iPhone 6/6+ screens, so the keyboard and everything else in the app has been stretched.
See this question for how to support the new 6 screen sizes.
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I noticed something that when you remove the launch screen file entry from the XCode Info.plist file, any view of any view controller becomes scaled according to the screen size, so the views appear zoomed in on large screen sizes such as the iPad Pro (12.9 inches) and appear somehow zoomed out on smaller devices (iPad Pro 9.7 inches).
In that case it seems that the Auto Layout constraints have no effect as the scaling is done automatically.
I really can't understand what does this has to do with the layout constraints, so I appreciate if any one can explain what's the reason for that.
Without being able to provide deep details, iOS uses the launch screen definition (view or static images) to determine which size classes the app should use. If you have not supplied those, it seems you get scaling that you generally do not want.
That doesn't mean auto-layout no longer has any affect... it just means that the auto-layout engine is not using the current screen size for its size/positioning calculations.
You'll see very similar results if you explicitly set your project for iPhone only.
Simple, obvious solution: Don't remove the launch screen.
Yes this is expected behaviour... Same is for iPhone 6 Plus. If you remove the iPhone 6 Plus launch screen, it will display the iPhone 6 scaled version.
This is just for backward compatibility. If your app is not ready for iPad Pro or iPhone 6+, scaled version can be used by removing the respective splashing screens.
All current iPhone apps or iPad apps in AppStore those are not optimised runs as a scaled version.
I've started using Xcode auto layout for my projects.
Auto-layout works perfectly when I'm testing on ios8 devices, it the view scales as needed.
However, things get a little crazy with ios7.
When I test my app on an ios7 iPhone 5 simulator, the app doesn't scale-up to the larger screen,
but only shows the 3.5 inch view, leaving black bars on the top and bottom of the screen.
I am using a tableView controller.
How do I scale the tableViewController up so that it fits on a larger screen in ios7?
(Like I've said, my app fits perfectly in ios8, on all screen sizes, but not in ios7.
Also, it scales fine on an ios7 ipad.)
thanks.
The Xcode (6) IDE should give a warning about this, that may not be so clear:
"Applications using Launch Screen Files and targetting iOS 7.1 and earlier
need to also include a Launch Image in an Asset Catalog."
This means you need to have the proper Launch-Images for the "Retina 4" screen,
which is 640 × 1136 pixels, and it should be configured in the assets-catalog,
just like your Application-Icons ("AppIcon"), but under "LaunchImage" there.
Once you add this 4-inch-compatible Launch-Image to your application,
iOS-7 will assume you are properly supporting the "Retina 4" screen,
and will launch the application in 4-inch mode.
I've come accros a problem with iOS 8 on the iPhone6 and simulator, when you have a UITableViewController with visible separators there seems to be some render problem. Now I could post some code but really if you make just a simple UITableViewController you would have the same problem, just look at eBay and Kijiji they all have this issue.
Normally you wouldn't see this small difference if it only happened once in a blue moon but if you scroll none stop you will see it flash. (less on Ebay since their separators are too close to white but Kijiji is pretty apparent)
Sorry I wanted to post a screenshot but sadly I don't yet have the reputation to do so therefore you will have to try it out yourself's.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks
The reason why the separators flash is because the app is not designed for the larger displays, and the phone is upscaling the app to fill the larger screen. Since the separator height becomes fractional, the separator line crosses pixel boundaries and becomes antialiased, making it appear wider, lighter, and/or darker than normal.
The answer is to (wait for the developer to) update the app to support the native resolutions of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
You can enable native resolution in your own app by adding launch images or a launch screen file.
Launch images
iPhone 6 requires a portrait launch image of 750x1334.
iPhone 6 Plus requires both portrait (1242 x 2208) and landscape (2208 x 1242) launch images, since it can launch apps in landscape as well as portrait.
Launch screen file (iOS 8)
You can add a launch screen storyboard or nib through Xcode.
In Xcode 6, open the File menu and choose New > File... > iOS > User Interface > Launch Screen.
In the General tab for your project's settings, look for the App Icons and Launch Images section. Set the Launch Screen File to the name of the file you created. This will set the UILaunchStoryboardName key in your Info plist.
Add Renders with edge antialiasing in your plist file, fixed the problem for me.
Remove the Clips Subviews on my custom cell did fix the issue for me.
So when I run my project on the simulator for iPhone 6, with a deployment target of 7.1 I'm expecting everything to Scale automatically for the larger screen size.
But this is not happening. My UILabel which was previously horizontally in the center of a 320px wide storyboard screen, with a leading space constraint to the parent view, now shows up in the simulator with exactly that space constraint, instead of it being scaled. So it shows up off center, because the iPhone6 is wider.
What setting determines whether the app get's scaled for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ ???
Paul G.
Ok, I found it:
What's new in iOS8
"To let the system know that your app supports the iPhone 6 screen sizes, include a storyboard launch screen file in your app’s bundle. At runtime, the system looks for a storyboard launch screen file. If such an file is present, the system assumes that your app supports the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus explicitly and runs it in fullscreen mode. If such an image is not present, the system reports a smaller screen size (either 320 by 480 points or 320 by 568 points) so that your app’s screen-based calculations continue to be correct. The contents are then scaled to fit the larger screen."
So I removed LaunchImage.xib (which was put there automatically) and I removed the entry for that in the plist.
I am using Xcode 4.5.1 to create a very simple, single view iPhone app. I've laid out the view as you can see in the IB image. (UIViewController, UIView, UIButton, UITextView).
When I run the app in the simulator (or my phone) it looks like the second screen shot.
I don't understand why the simulator UI doesn't look like the one I created in IB.
What am I missing?
Thanks!
If you look you are using the iPhone 5 size layout in your storyboard file. To change the dimensions between iPhone 5 layout and the standard iPhone size
Click on the icon in the lower right hand corner of the storyboard:
Alternatively, if you want to see the layout in a iPhone 5 simulator. In the iOS simulator go to Hardware > Device > iPhone (Retina 4-inch). This is the iPhone 5 layout. However, if you do not have a retina displayed computer. The iPhone will look like a really big iPad.
It looks like you have an iPhone 5 sized layout in Xcode and a iphone 4 in simulator. Check the constraints on the dark grey vs bottom views and make sure that they'll resize how you want.
Hey so here is another method.
My Problem:
1.My Storyboard was showing a fat rectangle that didnt look anything like a iPhone. Then when I'd run the simulator all the element were cut off and not in the right position.
2.Simulator took up the whole screen.
Resolution:
1. Make sure you Storyboard is open and displayed, click on the frame so that it has a blue highlighted border. Then on the Utilities manager (on the right) click on "Show the Attributes menu". The very first item should be Simulated Metrics. Choose the size that best fits your screen/needs.
2.Follow Adjusting the XCode iPhone simulator scale and size I scaled it down to 33%
Best,
Nate