I have an app which i’m building for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4/4s and iPhone 5. But i also want to run the app on the iPad which should be working fine. I have a script running which checks the device and starts te appropriate scene for each device which works fine. When a device is not recognized by the script it switches back to the iPhone 3GS version.
I changed a few lines of code so that when the script recognizes the iPad it switches to the iPhone 4 version but then the GUI is all messed up. Which is weird because when it switches back to the 3GS version on the iPad it works fine but the iPhone 3GS version looks way uglier on the iPad than the iPhone 4 version.
Here’s the script i’m running:
#pragma strict
static var deviceGeneration_3G : int = 1;
static var deviceGeneration_4G : int = 2;
static var deviceGeneration_5G : int = 3;
private var device : int;
function Start()
{
//Application.targetFrameRate = 60.0f;
QualitySettings.SetQualityLevel(6);
device = getDeviceGeneration();
switch(device)
{
case 1: Application.LoadLevel("app480x320");
break;
case 2: Application.LoadLevel("app960x640");
break;
case 3: Application.LoadLevel("app1136X640");
break;
}
}
function getDeviceGeneration() : int
{
/*
iPhone First generation device
iPhone3G Second generation
iPhone3GS Third generation
iPodTouch1Gen iPod Touch first generation
iPodTouch2Gen iPod Touch second generation
iPodTouch3Gen iPod Touch third generation
All devices with a resolution of 480 X 320
*/
if(iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPhone
|| iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPhone3G
|| iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPhone3GS
|| iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPodTouch1Gen
|| iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPodTouch2Gen
|| iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPodTouch3Gen
|| ( Screen.width == 480 Screen.height == 320 ))
{
return deviceGeneration_3G;
}
/*
iPhone4 // Fourth generation
iPhone4set // Fifth generation
iPodTouch4Gen // iPod Touch, fourth generation
All devices with a resolution of 960 x 640
*/
else if(iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPhone4
|| iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPodTouch4Gen
|| iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPhone4S
|| ( Screen.width == 960 Screen.height == 640 ))
{
return deviceGeneration_4G;
}
else if(iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPhone5
|| iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPodTouch5Gen
|| (Screen.width == 1136 Screen.height == 640))
{
return deviceGeneration_5G;
}
else if(iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPad1Gen
|| iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPad2Gen
|| iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPad3Gen
|| iPhone.generation == iPhoneGeneration.iPadUnknown)
{
return deviceGeneration_4G;
}
//FALLBACK to 480x320
else
{
return deviceGeneration_3G;
}
}
No i’m using iGUI. But the thing is, shouldnt the GUI be the same on iPad in the iPhone view without zooming it in or out? I mean that’s why you can so easily run iPhone apps on the iPad right? Or do only iPhone 3GS apps work on the iPad? I’m talking about an iPad 2 and / or iPad mini.
iPhone apps work (and are required to work) on iPad. I use the screen resolution to position my GUI instead of checking what specific device it is.
An iPhone4x app (960x640) will return as 960x640 on the iPad when using Screen.width/height if it’s an iPhone only app.
True so when my devicecheck script detects an iPad and switches to the iPhone 4 that should not mess up the GUI on the iPad when the GUI is perfect on the iPhone 4 right?
Yes i know for sure that it works because when i don’t add the whole iPad code it returns to 3GS and it works (but looks ugly) and when i add the iPad code it changes on the iPad to 4G versie bus the GUI is messed up.
The resolution part is now added. I’ll test it now.
EDIT:
Still doesn’t work. Funny thing is when i activate retinepad (my ipad 2 is jailbroken) it works… but not all iPads are jailbroken so that’s not an option
Sounds like you might want to check if your Unity version is up to date so it covers the 2nd generation iPad2 (with the smaller cpu) too.
Also, do you check the orientation before ending in this code or enforce a specific landscape orientation?
I ask cause it might fail otherwise too.
That being said, you run on a jailbroken device, so chances are that its actually failing for this reason, that Unitys generation detection fails itself.
Autorotation would bad as that means that portrait could happen where it will be 768x1024 instead of 1024x768.
But I guess you would realize this error when holding it the wrong way round in portrait instead so until you intend to allow others to use it it does not matter
What do the project settings look like for the iOS platform for the project especially on the target device, target resolution, arm and target platform front?
If you set it to iphone only it will never run as an ipad application. It will either run at the non retina resolution 480x320 + 2x mode (ipad, ipad2, ipadmini) or run at the retina resolution 960x640 + 2x mode (ipad3, ipad4).
You have no control over this nor even access to it, this is the iOS inbuilt ‘iPhone to iPad’ emulation.
The GUI is expected to scale to the screen aspect ratio when you use relative sizes (0-2). If you want them to appear exactly identical you need to do a lot more converting of sizes. The relative sizes are meant to make an element use a percentage of the screen instead of an actual amount.
Also: “Target Device → iPhone Only” is part of your problem.
Thx for your reply, all my GUI sizes are in relative sizes. And i want the app to be iPhone only. Shouldn’t IOS recognize it then as an iPhone app and use the compatability view?
