Image resolution for new iPhone 6 and 6+, @3x support added?
I've tried in a sample project to use standard, @2x and @3x images, and the iPhone 6+ simulator uses the @3x image. So it would seem that there are @3x images to be done (if the simulator actually replicates the device's behavior).
But the strange thing is that all devices (simulators) seem to use this @3x image when it's on the project structure, iPhone 4S/iPhone 5 too.
The lack of communication from Apple on a potential @3x structure, while they ask developers to publish their iOS8 apps is quite confusing, especially when seeing those results on simulator.
**Edit from Apple's Website **: Also found this on the "What's new on iOS 8" section on Apple's developer space :
Support for a New Screen Scale The iPhone 6 Plus uses a new Retina HD display with a screen scale of 3.0. To provide the best possible experience on these devices, include new artwork designed for this screen scale. In Xcode 6, asset catalogs can include images at 1x, 2x, and 3x sizes; simply add the new image assets and iOS will choose the correct assets when running on an iPhone 6 Plus. The image loading behavior in iOS also recognizes an @3x suffix.
Still not understanding why all devices seem to load the @3x. Maybe it's because I'm using regular files and not xcassets ? Will try soon.
Edit after further testing : Ok it seems that iOS8 has a talk in this. When testing on an iOS 7.1 iPhone 5 simulator, it uses correctly the @2x image. But when launching the same on iOS 8 it uses the @3x on iPhone 5. Not sure if that's a wanted behavior or a mistake/bug in iOS8 GM or simulators in Xcode 6 though.
I have tested by making a sample project and all simulators seem to use @3x images , this is confusing.
Create different versions of an image in your asset catalog such that the image itself tells you what version it is:
Now run the app on each simulator in turn. You will see that the 3x image is used only on the iPhone 6 Plus.
The same thing is true if the images are drawn from the app bundle using their names (e.g. one.png, [email protected], and [email protected]) by calling imageNamed: and assigning into an image view.
(However, there's a difference if you assign the image to an image view in Interface Builder - the 2x version is ignored on double-resolution devices. This is presumably a bug, apparently a bug in pathForResource:ofType:.)
UPDATE:
New link for the icons image size by apple.
https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/graphics/image-size-and-resolution/
Yes it's True here it is Apple provide Official documentation regarding icon's or image size
you have to set images for iPhone6 and iPhone6+
For iPhone 6:
750 x 1334 (@2x) for portrait
1334 x 750 (@2x) for landscape
For iPhone 6 Plus:
1242 x 2208 (@3x) for portrait
2208 x 1242 (@3x) for landscape
For more info regarding Images and it's resolution this is best ever helpful post
For setting images size for controls you can set 1x @2x and @3x like following:
