I have a storyboard for my iphone version of my app and I want to have the same storyboard for my ipad version (only bigger). My story board only has text and buttons is there anyway I can just convert the whole thing and increase the size by 2, or do have to resize everything manually?
You really need to do more than just resize you know. iPad users don't generally enjoy running iPhone apps at double size on the iPad and it sounds like that's what you're proposing to do.
In your storyboard you can drag and drop from your iPhone screens to iPad to get all of the elements into the iPad storyboard. Then maybe you will tweak a bit to make it more iPad friendly.
As far as I know, you will need to create a new storyboard and set that as the storyboard for iPad (app settings). You will then need to create the content manually (you can copy and paste the objects and use the existing controller classes though (will need to wire up the objects).
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i am able to make my iPad app running on iPhone but the iPhone screens doesnt fit all the content in. For example my table view main text is hidden, the buttons are very much spaced from the border. I understand the spacing given in my storyboard files in too big for iPhone screen.
I want to make my app work for iPhone with very minimal changes. I dont want to create a new storyboard and rewrite everything. Please suggest a good way.
Thanks in advance.
You need to make the app Universal, make a single storyboard the main storyboard in both target's project settings and use Autolayout to position your UI elements respective of the device. Look into Size classes to keep your design responsive.
I have developed app without autolayout for iPhone. Now I need that app for iPad also. Is it possible to create it without autolayout?
yes, you have to create App directly then select iPad.
and using Auto Resize ,you can directly develop app for iPad only.
I have attached few Screen shot, may be helpful to you.
Create new project, using XIB .
I don't recommend that (see comment of #Nimit Parekh).
You can use Sized classes to avoid having 2 separate Storyboards - one for iPhone and other for iPad. There is a good tutorial.
Second option is to have 2 storyboards. You only need to link all outlets from the 1st storyboard to the second. You have to check not to miss something, otherwise you can get exceptions in iPad.
The 3rd option is manually (from the code) to manage layout for iPad - but this will create a lot of specific code for iPad only (you have to check what type is your device and split code) - this is not recommended.
Take into account that Autolayout is more easy to apply on iPad (from my point of view) because of equal withd / height ratio for iPad - it is the same up to now. Not like in iPhone.
Hey there i want to make my app look different on other iPhones so i want to make storyboards for every iDevices is it possible ??
(Without Auto-Layout) Thanks
Yes it is possible to create storyboards for every device that you want. However it is very tedious as compared to having 1 universal storyboard or two storyboards if you want different designs for iPad and iPhone.
Alternatively, you could also use code to detect whether it is an iPad or iPhone, check out this link. As for different sizes for the iPhone, you can do a manual check of the size of the scene and adjust accord.
I have created an app in Swift and I want it to be available in both iPhone and iPad, but I would like the iPad to have a couple different layout variables, such as bigger buttons and pictures. Using auto-layout or Size Classes with constraints wasn't working and not letting me put them where I want them, so I was wondering how to make it so that when I open the simulator with an iPad, it opens the storyboard with the different View Controller layouts. I made a duplicate storyboard so I have main.storyboard and the copy is mainiPad.storyboard for the iPad only. If this can be done, please let me know! Thanks!!
This Tutorial is the old way, when You simply add iPad suffix in the file name.
This Post is the new way, introduced in Xcode 6; You simply select the storyboard name for ipad and iphone family in application plist file.
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!