Build iOS 7 Compliant App (App Icons)

amaximov

As many of you have probably read, Apple wants newly submitted apps to support the larger iOS 7 icons as mentioned in this article: http://9to5mac.com/2013/08/30/apple-inadvertently-asking-developers-for-ios-7-optimized-app-icons/

I'm not a native iOS developer so excuse my noobiness, but I can't seem to figure out how to add these special sized icons in Xcode. I can obviously find the uPad/iPhone retina/non retina slots for custom icons but not these iOS 7 sized ones.

It would be great if someone could share a link or some info regarding how to do this. Thanks ahead of time!

ar2rsawseen

@amaximov most probably you will need xcode 5 to do that:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17075894/deploy-from-xcode-4-6-2-to-ios-7-beta-device

amaximov

Apparently we cannot submit to the app store with current developer preview versions of Xcode 5 and will have to wait for at least a GM release. There has to be a way we can do this with Xcode 4.6 since apps are being submitted everyday still...

ar2rsawseen

ok after reading more it seems that ios 7 icon sizes is just a warning and apps still get approved without it:
http://forum.starling-framework.org/topic/apple-store-ios7-new-icons

amaximov

ah great, thanks for the clarification!

ianchia

I've been using the SVG and TTF iOS7 icons here:

https://github.com/AKIRA-MIYAKE/iOS7-icon-font
demo: http://ios7-icon-font-demo.herokuapp.com

Pop them in a UIWebView and you can scale them to any size you want using CSS. Renders beautifully at retina and non-retina DPIs.

- Ian

ianchia

Whoops - sorry, just read that you're talking about the Springboard icons, and not in-app iOS7 look & feel icons. Nevertheless, the github project is a great starting point for making your app feel iOS7 without heavily using UIKit.

Best,

- Ian

chipster123

I haven't built a Gideros project for iOS since before iOS 7 came out, so I don't know what needs to be done.

Do I build in Xcode for iOS 7 and it will run on iOS 6 and 7 devices?
Should I remove the iOS 6 SDK from Xcode before I get started?
What version of Xcode should be used?

This assumes Gideros v2013.09

tkhnoman

Hmm..?
In Xcode 5?

For me, i still build for the minimum iOS that i want, that is 5.0 (because some of plug-ins)
In Xcode 4.x, i don't need to change anything to make it work on iOS 7 without flaw. (But you can only do check run with adHoc)

In Xcode 5, i added 3 size of icons (would be warned by XCode upon verify app before upload).
Also, now i'm being warned as using push notification because that new setting at XCode 5, but i ignored it.

And might need to do this : http://blog.giderosmobile.com/post/68378513314/problems-with-xcode-paths-fix