Thanks Andreas. Looking forward to trying it out. Mark
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 3, 2021, at 11:44 AM, Andreas Bergendal via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > This is for those of you who develop for iOS. We all know the challenge of > getting the layout right for various iOS screens. ”The notch” (camera area at > the top) is especially annoying, since there’s no easy way of knowing if the > user’s device has one or not, and how many pixels it is (there are 4 > variants!). > > In LC 9.6.3 iphoneDeviceModel was introduced. Where machine() just returns > ”iphone”, iphoneDeviceModel() returns e.g. ”iPhone10,6” (=iPhone X) or > ”iPad13,7” (=iPad Pro 11 inch). > > But the Dictionary entry on iphoneDeviceModel just links to a Wikipedia page > listing mammoth tables of Apple device data. There is no way of knowing what > ”iPhone10,6” means without a decent lookup table. > > So, I’ve made one! And a library to use it with! And a demo stack to test it > with! > > It will check the device code of the current device, and return an array with > values for: > - notch margin > - portrait bottom margin > - landscape bottom margin > - (device model name - in the rare case that you'd need it) > > You use these for determining the safe area your UI elements can use, when > rearranging them in response to the resizeStack message. > Or e.g. how much taller the Header bar widget needs to be on a ”notch” device > in order to look good. > > It’s all here and free to get, use and modify as you need: > https://github.com/wheninspace/WISmobDeviceLib > <https://github.com/wheninspace/WISmobDeviceLib> > > The demo stack has the library in its stack script, and the full lookup array > in a cProp, so that stack is all you need really. > Testing must be done by deploying to physical devices though, as > iphoneDeviceModel() does not work in the iOS Simulator (or, it works, but > just returns a code for the Simulator itself…). > > Let me know if anything can be improved on (of course it can)! :) > > The source for my data is this excellent website: > https://www.screensizes.app/ <https://www.screensizes.app/> which has > comprehensive screen info on every existing iOS device since the first iPhone. > And this list which has the device codes interpreted: > https://gist.github.com/adamawolf/3048717#file-apple_mobile_device_types-txt > <https://gist.github.com/adamawolf/3048717#file-apple_mobile_device_types-txt> > > Cheers, > Andreas > _______________________________________________ > 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
