Conversion of existing applications to be compatible with iphone5?

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I have some applications in IPhone.Now i want them to be compatible to IPhone5.Somewhere i read that i need to change the splash screen to 4 inch.Shall i need to change this in all my xibs,or splash only.Currently i am using xcode4.2.i am getting IPhone5 simulator,is that enough or i need to install any later version to get the correct simulator.Where from i will get the latest simulator of IPhone5. Can anybody help me with the exact steps for acheving this transition?

@srinaidu http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/coding/supporting-the-iphone-5/great tutorial — hacker, Oct 01 '12 at 07:57

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 24 '12 at 08:54

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You definitely need to install XCode 4.5, and to create a new splash image for the 4-inch screen, called Default-568h@2x.png.

You shouldn't change the size of your xibs, because you'll want your app to work on both old and new phones. However, you may want to change the autoresizing masks of some of the views in your xibs so that they stretch to fill the larger screen.

answered Sep 24 '12 at 08:54

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Autoresizing mask was important for me - thanks – Stephanie Apr 26 '13 at 20:20

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 26 '12 at 11:49

here are the points *if you want to make use of full height of the iPhone5 create splash screen that's exactly 640x1136 pixels in size and name default-568h@2x.png *if you have problem with rotation check a)window.rootViewController = firstViewcontroller (dont add view to your window) b)implement the new rorate delegate function

*Use viewDidLayoutSubviews rather than viewDidLoad to set up widget sizes relative to the window *You can manually check the screen size and load the right image like this:

    UIImage* myImage;
CGFloat screenHeight = [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.height;
if ([UIScreen mainScreen].scale == 2.f && screenHeight == 568.0f) {
   myImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"myImage-568h@2x.png"];
} else {
} 

myImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"myImage.png"];

or use catogary from the following GIT gist https://gist.github.com/3719620

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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if you want to test your app with IOS 6 simulator with 4 inch display you need to install Xcode 4.5 from developer center.

UPDATED: You can refer to discussion Will Xcode 4.3.2 suffice to build apps for iOS 6?

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answered Sep 24 '12 at 07:32

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is that required to convert my applications to compatible with iphone5 – hacker Sep 24 '12 at 08:30
i updated my answer the post is about xcode 4.3 but it will be same for you. – Ilker Baltaci Sep 24 '12 at 08:46

Conversion of existing applications to be compatible with iphone5?

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