Best practise approach for artwork for iOS and Android?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Jun 11 15:58:00 EDT 2018


I would bulk-convert all the images to a higher resolution, perhaps 
144dpi. On Mac, Graphic Converter can batch process these in seconds, 
and I am sure there are other programs that do the same on both Mac and 
Windows. Use these higher-resolution images in your project.

On mobile, use fullScreenMode "showAll", which will automatically adjust 
the display to fit any resolution and screen size on both iOS and 
Android. Depending on the original card size, some edges will either be 
cropped or empty space will be added. There are ways around this, mainly 
by displaying an image at a larger size than the (original) card size.

There was a bug in the showAll fullscreenmode when navigating cards, but 
that has just been fixed and will be in the next 9.0 release. There are 
also workarounds for this right now if you don't want to wait.

This is a quick process that doesn't take much time because you won't 
have to adjust every image.

On 6/11/18 3:54 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have three old windows program (going back to the 90th), designed for
> children, which are based on "full window" image backgrounds (douzends of
> cards, each with another background image) and lots of small detail images.
> Up to now I have only developed LiveCode for Windows and MacOS, no
> experience yet with iOS and Android development. I try to evaluate the work
> load to redevelop those old windows programs for mobile and one general
> question before I start is the art work. Since the old art work has a size
> about 800x600 by 72dpi, I obviously would need to let redesign all art work
> for the todays resolutions, which would be a pretty costly part of the
> project and probably the go or nogo for the whole project.
> 
>   
> 
> Since there are so many different screen sizes, resolutions and aspect
> ratios on iOS and Android, I wonder how to cover all those variants
> technically in LiveCode and basically from the art work side. E.g. which
> size and ratio I would have to let create the "master" images by the artist
> (to be also on the safe side for the next years)?
> 
> Since I can't let design for each ratio a different master image for each
> card, I probably would have to distort the "master" image to each different
> screen size (app only for tablets in landscape mode)? Could I let make the
> OS the distortion of one background image per card in LiveCode, or would I
> need to import and assign different images (which I have distored in
> photoshop before) for each screen size in each card? Additionally I would
> need to create douzends of polygons as clickable objects, above each image
> for small parts of it, where I am not sure, if they would keep their exact
> target area, when the background image will be distort - probably not.
> 
>   
> 
> Up to now it looks to me as a never ending story, but perhaps I don't see a
> good approach
> 
> Any experience or pointers to a how to are very welcome.


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