LC 9.6.0 RC1 Splash/Launch Images

Fri May 22 07:51:49 EDT 2020

Just realised that the image sizes I suggested are for landscape, so if
your app uses portrait, just swap the width with the height.

On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 21:35, Colin Holgate via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> What I’ve done for a while is to use a flat color that is the average of
> the colors in the actual title screen. The splash screen is not around for
> very long, and with there being lots of different sizes required, a
> detailed splash screen could possibly take up 50 MB of app side, for the
> sake of a fraction of a second.
>
> In the best case it feels like the title screen faded into view. In fact,
> you could do that, quickly fade in from a matching flat background color.
>
>
> > On May 17, 2020, at 10:58 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Graham,
> >
> > The new storyboard mechanism has some restrictions as it is (we might
> > enhance it in the future)
> >
> > For example it is no longer possible to have an exact (pixel) matching of
> > the splash screen and the first card of the stack as it appears on the
> > device
> >
> > So the best suggestion now is to use a splash image that has just a logo
> at
> > the center and it is transparent, and also to set the background of the
> > splash in the standalone settings.
> >
> > In that way, in all devices (ipads/iphones) you will get a centered logo
> > with the background you set in the standalone settings (or you can choose
> > to not set the background - in this case the default background color
> will
> > be used depending on the device appearance: white if the device is on
> light
> > mode and black if the device is on dark mode)
> >
> > Of course, if you do not wish to have a splash that shows just a logo,
> you
> > can choose a regular image (or 3 regular images, one for each 1x,2x,3x
> > slots) and also set the background color to match the image background
> > color. In this case, depending of the device, the app will use the one of
> > the three images that is closer to the device screen size, and will
> center
> > this image to the screen.
> >
> > This means that the image in some devices will either match exactly, or
> it
> > will be larger (in this case it will be cropped and the edges will not
> > show), or it will be smaller (in this case it will be centered at the
> > device screen, and the left/top/right/bottom areas will show the
> background
> > color that was set in the standalone settings.
> >
> > One might ask, what size should the images be then? Well, it depends on
> the
> > images (i.e. how much content they have at the center, and if you are OK
> if
> > some of the content at the edges is cropped etc). A rule of thumb - as I
> > understand it - is the following:
> >
> > -use a "small", a "medium" and a "large" image for each of the 1x, 2x and
> > 3x slots, where "small" is the smallest image you used before the
> > storyboard, "large" is the largest you used before, and "medium" is
> > something in-between.
> >
> > For example, you could try images with these dimensions:
> >
> > - 1334x750
> > - 2208x1242 (x2)
> > - 2732x2048 (x3)
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > We will write a lesson for this topic soon.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Panos
> > --
> >
> > On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 17:49, Graham Samuel via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> >> This is not to answer my own question, but to emphasise the apparent
> >> difficulty of getting this aspect of creating an iOS app right just by
> >> using just LC and a reasonable graphics editor on a Mac. It means to me
> >> that a lot of careful instructions need to be provided by somebody in
> the
> >> LC universe, since the policy (I sincerely hope!) is to get LC
> developers
> >> to avoid getting deep into XCode. I found this, which frankly scares me.
> >>
> >> https://wiki.starling-framework.org/manual/ios_launch_images
> >>
> >> Can anyone help me to a less nerdy way of getting this right? I don’t
> >> even know what a storyboard is!
> >>
> >> Graham
> >>
> >>> On 16 May 2020, at 00:40, Graham Samuel via use-livecode <
> >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I see that the iOS Standalone Settings have changed in this version, no
> >> doubt to accommodate Apple’s new rules. One is required to provide six
> >> images as “Launch Images” under the “Splash” tab. It seems that there’s
> an
> >> image, a 2x image and a 3x image, and then another three for dark mode.
> >>>
> >>> There is no tooltip to suggest how large these images should be - in
> >> previous versions they had to be tailored to different device screen
> sizes.
> >> Now it seems anything goes, or does it?
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone explain what the dimensions of these images are supposed to
> >> be? Does “2x” just mean twice the original size in each direction or
> what?
> >> Can’t see anything in the release notes, but maybe I wasn’t paying
> >> attention.
> >>>
> >>> Graham
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