How do I support the taller iPhone 5 screen size?

Question

My app shows up letter boxed and I want it to stretch properly to fill the whole screen. I'm creating my main window with:

self.mainWindow = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];

But I'm still getting the letter boxed behavior. Is there some other setting I need to set to get the full size of the mainScreen on the device?

I'm trying to avoid using any launch images if I can. I've tried this:

self.mainWindow.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;

and it doesn't seem to help. And I've looked through all the Info.plist options and found nothing that seems to match.

Ruisdael

So far the only setting I have seen that enables it is to add a new launch screen. – Livelihood

As Ben said, have you added an appropriate "[email protected]" launch image? – Soembawa

possible duplicate of How to deal with iPhone 5 screen size? – Rhizome

The launch screen named and formatted as described below works, but I was looking for a method that didn't use a launch image. Looks like the answer is that the launch image is the only way to get the new behavior. – Ruisdael

possible duplicate of How to develop or migrate apps for iPhone 5 screen resolution? – Kalamazoo

Answer 1

I don't support your idea of avoiding launch images as they are there for a reason, but if you really wanna do it for some reason, you should use the [email protected] file (640x1136 px) like the one you get when creating a new project. It's just solid black, doesn't take up a lot of disk space and will look as if there are no launch images whatsoever.

Besides setting a 4-inch retina launch image, there is currently no known way to get full 1136 px height on the new screen.

Anaesthesia

What do you mean by " there is currently no known way to get full 1136 px height on the new screen." ? The [email protected] is only for the [email protected] file? – Iodoform

I don't understand your question. – Anaesthesia

I think I get what @Iodoform says. How are we supposed to load images all over our app for the 4" display? We used image_name.png in our storyboad, for example, and providing [email protected] we knew the proper higher res image would be loaded on retina display. I though adding [email protected] would behave the same but it seems this doesn't work that way. – Kurbash

Well, retina was a new display scale, this is just a bit taller screen. There is really no point at having -568h suffix when only the default image is of that height. You can easily check for UIScreen mainScreen height and load 4-inch-screen-specific images if you really need to. – Anaesthesia