Home Screen Icon Not Rendered on iOS

[Colin Holgate]

Do you all know about the Assets.car requirement in iOS 11? Instead of including individual icons (which you have to do to support older iOS), you now include an Assets.car file, that has all of the icon sizes. It would be an included file.

It is possible to make the file using Xcode, but I found that some icon sizes were being left out, and Apple rejects apps like that. Fortunately someone made an online tool, you give it your 1024x1024 icon, it gives you back the Assets.car file:

http://www.applicationloader.net/appuploader/icontool.php

It also makes the needed Android icons.


> On Jul 30, 2018, at 8:52 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Do the icons have an alpha channel? I *think* they are not allowed to have
> one.
> 
> Best,
> Panos
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> 
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, I've had a similar problem, but I haven't figured it out.  I went back
>> and found a couple of icons we had used several years ago.  They do work,
>> so I'm also baffled.
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:11 AM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via
>> use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Apple continues to give us grief…Anyone else have this context.
>>> 
>>> Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6
>>> LC: 9.0.1 RC1
>>> Xcode 9.4.1
>>> iOS (on phone) 11.4.1
>>> 
>>> No matter what I do, I can't get the Home screen icon to render on the
>>> phone. It always "generic"
>>> 
>>> All icons are entered into SA at correct dimensions. Whether  we use
>>> "prerendered" on not, still doesn't work.
>>> No entitlements issues, build goes through with no error. Just no proper
>>> icon.
>>> 
>>> Previously, in Xcode 9.3 this same problem was solved by saying  "Yes" to
>>> Apple's Dialog on Xcode start up
>>> 
>>> "Do You Want to Install Additional Components?"
>>> 
>>> After that, restarting Xcode, restart LC and the icon rendered.
>>> 
>>> But Xcode 9.3 will not build for iOS 11.4.1. AND XCode 9.4.1. invokes no
>>> dialog for "Additional Components"  -- it opens "silently" and on Apple's
>>> developer site there are no additional component for 9.4.1? (in
>> downloads)
>>> I tried manually adding the 9.3 Components (little applications that I
>> put
>>> the Xcode applications folder). but still no go…
>>> 
>>> I am stumped.
>>> 
>>> I can still build and get my beta testers to check the app - minus a
>>> proper home screen icons. But sure would be nice to solve this one.
>>> 
>>> BR
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