Handle iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus resolution

jbernabeu

Hi,

Any idea how is going to handle Sparrow the new resolutions and the graphics to be used??

Thanks in advance ...

Daniel

Here's a good summary of what's now happening with the screens in terms of iPhone versions:

http://www.paintcodeapp.com/news/iphone-6-screens-demystified

The bad news is that, for an iPhone game (no iPad), you now have to support the following screen-sizes in points:

* 320x480 (everything up to iPhone 4S)
* 320x568 (iPhone 5, 5S, 5C)
* 375x667 (iPhone 6)
* 414x736 (iPhone 6 Plus)

So there are two completely new sizes to support. Hard-coding positions is thus probably no longer an option. Just like on Android, you better find out the current screen size in points and place your objects accordingly.

In addition, for the iPhone 6 Plus, you should include a new set of graphics: "@3x". Sparrow should automatically load them on such a device.

I couldn't test that yet, but as far as I understand it, the iPhone 6S should report a screen size of 1242x2208 pixels, even though it's "only" 1080x1920 in reality. The graphics are then scaled to the right size by the hardware.

jbernabeu

Hi Daniel,

So sparrow is detecting rigth now the correct screen size ???

humble

Don't quote me on this but the test I did a few days ago, the iphone 6 and 6+ in the simulator both reported the same screen size as 5 and 5S. But now I don't trust myself. Have to test it again.

Cheers

ERik

jbernabeu

Thanks Erik,

rigth now the simulator is just zooming the game ... and I would like to be able to do it better than that.

Daniel

Can you remember that when the iPhone 5 was introduced, all apps would report the old 320x480 size until you'd added an appropriate "Default-568h@2x.png" file?

It seems that it's the same with iPhone 6: only that you're now supposed to add a "Launch Screen File", which is an InterfaceBuilder (xib) file. Yes, Apple finally seems to have abandoned the Default PNGs ... they'd become a headache by now, anyway.

As soon as you add such a file (in the "General" tab of the Target settings), the reported resolutions are correct.

As a quick test, you can create a new standard Xcode project and use the xib-file that's created there.

I hope that helps!