Successful recipe for LC iPhone apps...

[Mark Wilcox]

I haven't submitted an app but here's my take on the official Apple stance and what it means:

All apps have to support the iPhone 5 resolution (or 4" Retina) and retina displays since May 1st.

The iPhone 5 thing is clear - your app must scale to that resolution and not run in compatibility mode (with the black bars top and bottom).  IIRC you need to include a Default-568h at 2x.png file (640x1136 px) image for the system not to put you in compatibility mode - even if it's a plain black one.

The retina display support thing is not clear - if your app doesn't look great on a retina display they might reject it.  Scaling images up programatically is definitely not banned though.  If you're building native apps with Xcode they obviously want you to include @2x variants of all your images but the situation for apps built with other tools is less clear. I'm guessing most apps that include the default.png in all the @2x variants will probably be OK for now, since that's the only thing they can easily check programatically at submission time.

Position independent code is only a warning for now and RunRev will fix that problem in a forthcoming release by setting the appropriate compile/link flags - looks like it's to do with a new security feature Apple are enabling to get better traction in the enterprise market.

You do definitely need LC 6.0.2 (or 5.5.5) to get the UDID fix though.

Mark


________________________________
 From: John Dixon <dixonja at hotmail.co.uk>
To: "use-livecode at lists.runrev.com" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 13:10
Subject: Successful recipe for LC iPhone apps...
 

There seems to be lots of stories about rejection of LC apps from the iTunes store around..
What is the position regarding submission these days in the ever shifting sands of Apples' whims ?

Has the iphone app got to be built at 640 x 960 ?
What has position independant code got to do with building the app in liveCode ?

I have an app ready for submission, but it has been built at 320 x 480... reading the stories on the forums it seems that submitting at this size will attract a rejection... is this correct ?

Anybody submitted one recently and it got through ?....
                          
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