We all are going to update our apps to iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus. That means we need to support 4 sizes.
1.) 3.5
2.) 4
3.) 4.7
4.) 5.5
Can we support all these screen sizes with single xib or storyboard ? also please share your views on how we can update our existing apps for iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus.
Yes. See Apple's iOS8 documentation specifically, size classes:
iOS 8 makes dealing with screen size and orientation much more versatile. It is easier than ever to create a single interface for your app that works well on both iPad and iPhone, adjusting to orientation changes and different screen sizes as needed. Design apps with a common interface and then customize them for different size classes. Adapt your user interface to the strengths of each form factor. You no longer need to create a specific iPad storyboard; instead target the appropriate size classes and tune your interface for the best experience.
There are two types of size classes in iOS 8: regular and compact. A regular size class denotes either a large amount of screen space, such as on an iPad, or a commonly adopted paradigm that provides the illusion of a large amount of screen space, such as scrolling on an iPhone. Every device is defined by a size class, both vertically and horizontally.
There is also a very good tutorial video on the WWDC site.
In order to stop your iPhone 6/6+ app being scaled, add a launch image of the correct size or better, use a launch storyboard.
From there you should use AutoLayout and avoid hard coding to screen sizes. In the long run it'll be a lot less effort and less error prone.
In existing projects you can use autoresizing or auto layout of xib files.. that support all 4 devices.
I have implement my projects using autoresizing to support all devices.
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I'm trying to create a iOS app, but I'm stuck on the layout.
I created the home view, but now I see that it's not shown in the right way in the 4S simulator.
I tried with size classes, but it looks like 4S and 6, for example, are in the same size class, and so I can't set a different dimension for views.
My goal is to support all devices, also iPads. Can someone please tell me how to do it?
Size classes mostly used for separation between ipad, apple watch and landscape modes.In potrait mode iphone 4 to iphone 6 all phone device sizes are in same class(regular height and compact width).Autolayout has many different constraints to help you to fit interfaces in same class.You should consider horizontaly/verticaly align, equal width and aspect ratio constraints.They are so flexible for smaller size changes and help you to design adaptive layout.
You should use "Reset to Suggested Constraints" for all views in your View controller. You can also check the simulated metrics for all devices without compiling the the code.
For 4s and 6 by default the size is Inferred. You should try resetting the constraints to check this for iPad as well.
I am just sharing an idea
Option1:
I think You can try adaptive Layouts and in file inspector->simulated Metrics->size-> Inferred. It works in all devices it supports both landscape and Portrait.
Option2: Go for Visual layouts they are easy to understand and they work perfect in all modes of Portrait.
I am think that you use code Instead design in main.storyboard !
for ex: create button with code
(and use Ratio in your code)
by this way i create small app for iPhone & iPad
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I would like to start my application that need to support for only iPad devices. Now, my question is do I need to use the Autolayout functionality?
What am thinking is as my app supports only iPad,no need to use the autolayout because all the ipad devices uses same size classes.
Correct me if am wrong.
You have to use size classes even if you are using only iPad device as target for your application. There are some reasons why you have to use the size classes :
1) iPad have diff screen sized and resolutions as well. check them Out here.
2) The iPad multitasking feature is there from ios 9 so you need to resize your views according to that and that will need size classes check it out here.
NOTE : if you are using autolayout then no need to use size classes but size classes are important you can check the importance of the size classes and its working in apple's design guide line (here)
ipad has different device size like 768 x 1024 and 1024 x 1366 (ipad pro) etc. so, you should use autolayout to manage it for every ipad device.
I have to design an app for all iPhone size portrait mode only. I am using storyboard and setting constraints using storyboard itself. What makes me confuse is Size Classes. Since my requirement is iPhone portrait only, I am using Size Class compact Width|regular Height. My question is can I disable the Size Classes cause working only for iPhone portrait mode. If yes, then can I design with Size Classes disabled for all iPhone size. What is the right approach?
Intuitively, prior to size classes, storyboard UI was designed by doing a separate interface for each iPhone size. Since the advent of a broad range of device sizes, size classes have been incorporated. Considering that your app may have to run on older devices, there is still a difference in size between iPhones in portrait mode. Because of this, you would likely have to make a separate interface for each orientation, which I have not tried. I believe the correct approach would be to simply design for the size class that you selected.
If you are only making your application for iPhone portrait not necessary to use the size classes. You just have to set proper contract which are in the size indicator.
It's my opinion for it.
If you are developing for iPad and iPhone size class is the best option.
Size classes deal with the problem of multiple orientations(portrait and landscape) and different devices(iPhone and iPad). You cannot differentiate between two different screen sizes for iPhone using a size class. Similarly you cannot differentiate between iPad mini(portrait) and iPad Air(portrait) on behalf of size classes.
All iPhones in portrait has the same size class behavior i.e Compact(width) | Regular(height), be it 3.5", 4.0", 4.7" or 5.5". Similarly all iPhones in landscape has Regular(width) | Compact(height) size class. Size classes aren't the solution to the problem you are facing.
In order to handle multiple screen sizes for iPhone in portrait, the best bet would be to make use of autolayouts. Pin your views with the boundaries so that they will get stretched or contracted on different screens. Similarly bind your labels with the boundaries of their superview so that they will grow too. Also you can make use of aspect-ratio constraint that will allow to grow your view and images relative to the aspect-ratio of the element rather than increasing them horizontally to end up with an elongated look.
If you are new to autolayouts I will highly recommend watching the following sessions from WWDC2012:
Introduction to Auto Layouts
Auto Layouts by Example
Best Practices for Mastering Auto Layouts
I'm developing iOS 8 universal app, I'm using adaptive layer to develop app, all going well.
But, I struck at iPad design, because I used equal width and height for all devices using constraints, its looking good for iPhone devices, but iPad also is showing as like iPhone design, so I need to increase button sizes, so can I use a separate constrains for iPhone and iPad buttons on single storyboard app in iOS 8 with Swift language.
One more doubt is, how to handle dynamic buttons on same storyboard application with auto layouts and constrains
Thanks in Advance.
You can select Regular width|Any Height size class and set the size and constraints for the button specific to iPad. According to Apple docs :
Views, constraints, and fonts are added from the size classes in the same way they would be chosen for display on a screen. Items from Any|Any are used unless those items are changed or uninstalled in more specific size classes. In that case, the most specific item is used. For example, in the iPhone nib, modified items in the Compact|Regular size class take precedence over items in Compact|Any. And modified items in Compact|Any take precedence over items in Any|Any.
Regular width|Any Height size class is taken in run time for iPad and Any|Any is taken for iPhone.
When creating a storyboard file in Xcode, you must select if it is for iPhone or iPad. This implies one should always put iPhone and iPad UIs into separate storyboards. Is this true?
My app has multiple storyboards. While the Main.storyboard files largely differ between iPhone and iPad, other storyboards are nearly identical. The only difference might be segue being a push on iPhone vs popover on iPad, which can be handled programmatically. It seems awfully silly and redundant to make two storyboards.
So if making one "universal" storyboard, should iPhone or iPad be selected in Xcode? Does it matter?
As of Xcode 6, we can create a single unified storyboard for all the devices.
For more info - Documentation
iOS 8 makes dealing with screen size and orientation much more
versatile. It is easier than ever to create a single interface for
your app that works well on both iPad and iPhone, adjusting to
orientation changes and different screen sizes as needed. Design apps
with a common interface and then customize them for different size
classes. Adapt your user interface to the strengths of each form
factor. You no longer need to create a specific iPad storyboard;
instead target the appropriate size classes and tune your interface
for the best experience.
There are two types of size classes in iOS 8: regular and compact. A
regular size class denotes either a large amount of screen space, such
as on an iPad, or a commonly adopted paradigm that provides the
illusion of a large amount of screen space, such as scrolling on an
iPhone. Every device is defined by a size class, both vertically and
horizontally. iPad size classes shows the native size classes for the
iPad. With the amount of screen space available, the iPad has a
regular size class in the vertical and horizontal directions in both
portrait and landscape orientations.
Edit:
It only supports iOS 8(backward compatible applies only for iOS 7) and later.
You've got to create to separate storyboards for each kind of device. If you would delete the iPad storyboard, than your app would use the iPhone's one. You'll realize it when you'll see the 2x button at the bottom of the screen. Everything will be scaled to fit the larger screen - and the graphics would be really bad.
The only suitable workaround is to copy-paste everything from your iPhone Storyboard to iPad storyboard. Just follow the next steps:
Open iPhone.storyboard,
Press CMD+A,
Press CMD+C,
Switch to iPad.storyboard,
Press CMD+V,
You'll see, that all the screens, segues, properties and actions are transferred to your new storyboard. All that you have to do is to fix the frames of all your elements so that they'll suit new screen sizes.
And don't forget, that a good iPad application shouldn't be the same as the iPhone version. There are a lot of cool things which you can do with iPad!