Easily create Universal App: Helpful information

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Easily create Universal App: Helpful information

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Started 9 months ago by menehune17
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menehune17
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Hello, I found the following information extremely helpful when wanting simply to allow my iPhone game to be played on the iPad (without recreating all of my artwork for a bigger screen):

Simply, mark your project as targeting the iPhone only. This (although not obvious) will allow the app to be run on an iPad as well! It will be displayed in the center of the screen on the iPad. Better yet, Apple even provides a "2x"/"1x" button by default to blow up the image (although keeping the same lower-res resolution).

No extra work required, just mark this setting and design for the iPhone Hope this helps anyone wanting to extend their app to the iPad.

BTW, does anyone know if something similar will work for the Retina Display??? (I am guessing that the app will be "blown up" to fit the screen, with the lower-res resolution)

Posted 9 months ago #
silver
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Hi,

yes you are right. You can target for iPhone and then the upscale button for the iPad is visible.
But the result will look terrible.
All textures will get blurred and looks creepy.

Invest a little bit more time and not only the customers will thank you.
Also you would be more "proud" of the result.

Design all the graphics for high-res.
Then use tools like texture packager to create sprite sheets and have the possibility to enable AutoSD which automatically creates the low-res versions for you.
The only graphics where you have take care manually will be full width or height graphics.

It's really not more complicated but it will look much more appealing!

Posted 9 months ago #
Daniel
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If you designed your game with Retina graphics, as Silver suggests, there is a small trick that will make your app use your HD texture if the user hits the "2x" button. You just need to change the stage's scalefactor to "2.0" if you find out that you are running on an iPad. Have a look at the demo project, it does it that way. (The relevant code is in the app delegate, and it does not work in the simulator, only on the device.)

The downside of this approach is, however, that people likely won't download your app, because they're looking for iPad apps when downloading something for the iPad. Since most iPhone apps look bad on the iPad, they avoid downloading them.

So, in the end, the best approach will be to create a universal application! It's not much more work anyway, after all, if you work with HD graphics from the start.

Posted 9 months ago #

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