ios - Supporting iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ with different launch/splash screen image for iPad Portrait and Landscape orientations

Question

What I understood from the available documentation and my testing is that

1. All existing Apps on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus run in compatibility mode, which means the APIs (like [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds) will return 320x568 (iPhone 5/5s) still in new iPhones (6/6 Plus) and all UI is scaled to the correct resolution by iOS.

2. To support iPhone 6/6Plus we need to create xib for Launch Screen (File->New->File->UserInterace->Launch Screen) and set the nib file as "Launch Screen File".

3. We can set different images for launch screen inside Launch screen nib file based on avaialble size classes. [Basically combinations of Any, regular and compact]

4. There is no way to differentiate between iPad in portrait and iPad in Landscape orientation (both are regular width regular height). Also there no way to differentiate between iPhone 4/4s and iPhone 5/s.

Is there a way I can support iPhone 6/6 Plus mode and also provide different launch images for iPad in portrait and iPad in landscape orientation?

See also the similar problem here iOS 8 size classes for iPad landscape

Answer 1

You don′t have to use the launch screen file to make your App iPhone 6 / 6+ resolution compatible. Instead, you can select the LaunchImage asset as your Launch Images Source.

It can be found at "App Icons and Launch Images" under your Targets:

If there is no LaunchImage asset just go to your Images.xcassets, make a secondary click (right click) and select "New Launch Image":

The result is something like that:

Now just drag and drop your images for the specific resolutions you want to support and set the created LaunchImage asset as your source.

Hope it helps

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