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12/29/14 01:14 PM (9 years ago)

Everything bigger (distorted) on iPhone 6

I FINALLY got my new iPhone 6! I have noticed though that my two BT apps appear sort of distorted on the larger screen size. Everything is bigger. I sort of expected this with the button menu but even other plugins are affected.... Menu with image plugin: rows are bigger, text is bigger HTML plugin: all of the text is bigger They are universal apps and for now the row size, text size, etc is the same on the iPhone 5 and iPad and I want it to be the same for the iPhone 6 as well. I can only image what it looks like on the iPhone 6 plus! How do I fix this??? I added arm64 to my architectures thinking maybe it was a 64 bit thing but no luck. Josh
 
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12/29/14 01:15 PM (9 years ago)
And I have checked similar apps from competitors and their apps do not skew like this.
 
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12/29/14 04:47 PM (9 years ago)
To be honest, I can't notice distortion from your comparison images... But, Are your images @3x ? That's the new standard for the iPhone 6. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25781422/image-resolution-for-new-iphone-6-and-6-3x-support-added Cheers! -- Smug
 
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12/29/14 04:57 PM (9 years ago)
It's not just the images. The sizes of row height and font size int the menu with image plugin, for example, are all scaled upwards. And as for the html files, I have css code so that the font size does not change so that it looks exactly the same size on my iPhone 5 and iPad. But on the iPhone six it is scaled bigger due to the bigger screen size. So basically I want my row height, font size, etc to be the same on the iPhone 6 as it is in the iPhone 5
 
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12/29/14 06:06 PM (9 years ago)
I know that when you first run iPhone 6 it asks if you want everything to be zoomed. Maybe you choose that option?? Cheers
 
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12/29/14 08:43 PM (9 years ago)
No, I didn't choose the zoom option. And again, some other apps on my phone (not BT) do not do this, the text and rows are the same for both iPhones and iPad. Other older apps (again, not BT) do the same thing. Is this really not happening for anyone else on Buzztouch???
 
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12/30/14 06:09 AM (9 years ago)
The iphone 6 and 6 plus upscale existing apps to fit the screen. So things to become a little stretched and fuzzy. With new apps created you will need to start adding the proper sized launch image with the correct sizes to set the app up for 6 and 6 plus screens. This will cause further problems as if you look in BT_device is ipad is determined by the width of the screen at the moment the ipad is any screen larger than 320 so the new iphones are greater than 320 so all the table rows are set differently I'm sure david is fixing this but you can alter the 320 to 414. Before anyone shoots me down it's points not pixel width. I menu button has some issues with this also. I recommend susans button menu and the mosaic as these adapt to any screen width or height
 
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12/30/14 02:10 PM (9 years ago)
Kitsy, I was hoping that if I did as you said and change the "value" for an iPad from 320 to 414 it would solve my problems. My issue is that I looked at the BT_device files and there are no size values listed. I even searched the entire project for "320" and nothing useful showed up. I'm not that concerned with the xib button menu (the home screen) scaling up. But I need to fix it on the menu with image and html plugins.
 
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12/30/14 11:16 PM (9 years ago)
On the html plugins, use em for font size instead of px. You use em differently; e.g. 1em = 16 px. Em works like dp does on Android. I'm not sure what to do with the menu text. I don't know an equivalent like em or dp for iOS, but obviously there is a way to make it work. The images should all scale....I always use the fit on the images.
 

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