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@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@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@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@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 > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> use-livecode mailing list > >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >> subscription preferences: > >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >> subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode