I want my app to have a new icon for iPhone 6/iPhone 6 plus BUT I don't want to use the Asset Catalog and I still want the app to open in Zoom/Scale mode (I don't want to make any changes and for it to look good on the new iPhones).
What is the proper way to do that?
just put new icon files Icon-Small#3x.png (87x87), Icon-Small-40#3x.png (120x120), Icon-60#3x.png (180x180). To keep scaling, do NOT put new launch images for iphone 6/6 plus
Have you set a Launch Screen image / view?
If you're using Storyboards, try to add MainStoryboard to the Launch Screen, and make sure you've set the correct launch screens. Clean and build and see what happens.
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I created an universal iOS app. On all iPhone variants I want native resolution without scaling, so I created splash screen images for all available sizes in images.xcassets/LaunchImage.launchimage and set them all in Xcode:
Now, this works very well for all iPhone versions up to the biggest iPhone 6 Plus.
On iPad (with high pixel density) though I don't want native resolution. Instead I want it to scale the app (even if it looks a bit blurry then, but that's ok).
How would I do that?
In image assets you have to provide proper size for each launch screen, You can not use the same image for two devices in launch-images ( unless you have two copies of the same image ).
If you want to make app-size smaller, implement launch screen, set its background color to your desired background color and put your logo in the center of it. You can now remove iPhone 6,6Plus images from image assets, but you still have to provide launch images for iOS 7 devices (old iPhones / iPad ).
Don't use the Asset Catalogue. Create a LaunchScreen.xib , add a UIImage inside the view. Open the attribute inspector in the right hand panel and set the view mode to Aspect Fill.
The solution was quite easy, I simply changed project type from "universal" to "iphone" and that did the trick!
All my old apps are looking good on iPhone6/6+. But when I create new project iPhone 6/6+ treat apps natively. So they look awful. Instead of trying to adjust views using constraints and stuff, I decided it would be better to write app for iPhone 5 and let new iPhones scale it. I know solution is not perfect but is good enought for me. The questions is how to make new iPhones treat my app as iPhone 5 app. How to make them scale it?
Thank you.
You have to provide a LaunchImage with the correct size :
iPhone 6 Splash screen 750 x 1334
iPhone 6 Plus landscape Splash screen 2208 x 1242
iPhone 6 Plus portrait Splash screen 1242 x 2208
I'm answering this by memory as I don't have xcode in front of me, but I'm quite sure it's correct.
You need to create and add 3 launch images to your project of the following sizes:
*640x1136
*640x960
*320x480
Go to project settings, general and select the launch image source option. Select use asset catalog, and create an asset catalog if you don't already have one.
With the asset catalog open you should have a section called launch images, if you do not, tap the '+' button in the bottom left hand corner and add the launch images option to your project. Select the launch images option.
The top row of images are used for iPhone 6/6 Plus, leave these blank. Drag and drop the launch images that you created onto the bottom two rows of images.
Return to your project settings and select the launch screen file option. Remove everything - ensure that the selection is blank. (To do this I selected my main.storyboard and just deleted the text in the text box).
And that's it, now you can automatically zoom your app on the larger devices.
Hope this helps.
My app is landscape only, and I'm trying to add launch images, but I don't see anywhere in the Launch Image assets a placeholder to drag the image for "Retina HD 4.7" Landscape.
Please advise.
I had this issue on one of my apps that I started developing and then a xcode update came along. I had to delete the file and create a new one, then all of the choices were there. Give that a shot. Always backup first.
Most of my apps scale up when run on an iPhone 6, but for some reason one of my apps looks like this:
What would cause it to not just scale up and fill the screen?
EDIT: Here are some repro steps:
Create a new project (Single View). Turn off size classes and just use iPhone.
Make the background orange.
Add a yellow UIView subview at (20,20,280,200).
In Xcode you get this:
Now simulate on iPhone 6. You get this:
Why doesn't it just scale up and look normal?
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It's a legitimate question. And here's the legitimate answer:
Remove the "Launch Screen File" in Projects > General. Xcode 5 did not have this so older apps scale up automatically. Apps created with Xcode 6 get a default Launch Screen file created.
Removing it will make your app scale up on iPhone 6.
I have got the same problem and I managed to solve it by adding constraints to my ViewController in the storyboard.
Make sure that you clicked the ViewController of your scene. They yellow button in the this screenshot.
Click Editor-> Resolve Auto Layout issues -> Add Missing Constraints
Now you will find that the background image is scaled up to fill iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 plus.
Note that this solution works for me even if I did not provide any launch screen file.
I had the same issue. Searching for an answer, most of them mention the launch image. To me, what did the trick, was that I first enabled launch image for iOS8.0 and later in Xcode, which requires the native resolution sizes for 4.7" and 5.5". Adding these sizes didn't help, but when I re-disabled them, it started working!
If you do have any launch image, you will need launch images for all appropriate sizes. I was doing a minor update to an app, and it was not showing correctly on the iPhone 6 simulator. I created four launch images (.png files). Since the app should still run on iOS 7, I apparently could not use an asset catalog. I gave the images the correct names, and all is good.
Image sizes and names may be found here:
Sizes and Naming of Launch Image for iPhone app in iOS8
My app starts and runs on the new iPhone 6 Plus (or iPhone 6) in the simulator, but elements that I know are supposed to be small on the big screen (i.e. hard coded CGRects) are large, as if the whole app had just been scaled up for the larger screen.
How can I get out of scaling mode in the simulator?
It looks like setting a launch screen file in the "App Icons and Launch Images" section of your project settings, or adding iOS 8 images to your launch image catalog, will enable "native" resolution.
Adding a correctly sized LaunchImage seems to be enough (setting an incorrectly sized image won't).
Also adding the new "Launch Screen File" should work:
You must set correctly sized LaunchImages
For more information about LaunchImages and icons see this documentation
https://developer.apple.com/library/IOs/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/IconMatrix.html
use Asset Catalog Creator from mac app store.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/asset-catalog-creator-app/id809625456?mt=12
give it any image and it will generate all the correct launch images and icons in a xassets file.
This should stop the scaling of the whole app on iphone 6+