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Great points, except for "@2x only." If your app supports iPads, then the iPad 2 and iPad Mini (first generation) are both non-Retina screens and are still avai
by guptaneil 13y ago
Great points, except for "@2x only." If your app supports iPads, then the iPad 2 and iPad Mini (first generation) are both non-Retina screens and are still available for sale directly from Apple. Given Apple's 3 year support cycles, iOS 10 will be the first iOS that can fully drop support for non-retina displays if the iPad 2 and original iPad mini are discontinued by the end of this year.
- berzniz 13y agoOur app is iPhone only, but this is a great point to remember for anyone thinking about dropping the non-retina image.
- cncool 13y agoPeople with non-retina iPads can and will download your app.
- pietro 13y agoNon-retina iPads use retina assets for iPhone apps.
- cncool 13y agoAh good too know. I guess that is new in iOS 7.
- mikeash 13y agoMy memory is fuzzy, but I think it happened around iOS 5.
- guptaneil 13y agoNope, it's an iOS 7 feature. Retina iPads have done this since iOS 5, since that is when the iPad 3 was introduced, but non-retina iPads used non-retina graphics until iOS 7. See http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/07/ios-7-uses-retina-assets-of-iphone-only-apps-on-non-retina-ipad.html http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/07/ios-7-uses-retina-assets-... and http://bendodson.com/weblog/2013/10/16/dropping-non-retina-support-in-ios7/ http://bendodson.com/weblog/2013/10/16/dropping-non-retina-s...
- mikeash 13y agoThat must be my confusion. Thanks for the info.
- ttflee 13y agoUnfortunately, an app cannot be made `-568h` only. And -[UIImage imageWithName:] does not support `-568h` infix.
- chrisdroukas 13y agoWhich is pretty lame considering xcassets supports an image 'subtype' called R4 that's designed for 4" screens.
- klausa 13y agoThere's nothing stopping you from swizzling that method for one that does, though. I've done it without any apparent problems.
- jurre 13y agoIt's also really trivial to support both retina and non-retina so I don't understand the point at all..