Retina display

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• atilim Maintainer

  December 2011

  It's implemented but after beta3. And exactly as you said, according to the device resolution, low-res or high-res image is selected automatically.
  

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• MikeHart Guru

  December 2011

  Which effect does this automatic selection have regarding the "Images Scales" settings in the project properties?

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• atilim Maintainer

  December 2011

  Hi,
  
  For example, you set an image scale as "@2x" prefix with scale 2. Assume that you set your logical resolution as 320x480 and set scaling mode as stretch. If you run your game on iPhone 4 and enable retina display, your hardware resolution will be 640x960 and your window will be scaled by 2. In this case the images with prefix "@2x" will be selected automatically instead of base images.

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• chipster123 Member

  December 2011

  This is a little off topic, but what is a good way to keep the app file size small when providing images at multiple scales? Designing for retina display or ipad and providing @half was the approach I was entertaining, but I fear bloated .apk

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• atilim Maintainer

  December 2011

  One recommendation can be using .jpg images if you don't need alpha (especially for backgrounds)
  

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• chipster123 Member

  December 2011

  That's as far as I got.

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• MikeHart Guru

  December 2011

  @Atilim: So when Retina Display is enabled, the "Image Scales" settings are fro Android devices only and IOS devices will use the "Apple rules"? When Retina Display is disabled, the "Image Scales" are for Android and IOS?

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• atilim Maintainer

  December 2011

  @MikeHart
  No. Image scales settings behave same for every platform. Giving the "@2x" example is a little bit confusing Think the above example as "-2x" or "_high", etc.
  

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• MikeHart Guru

  December 2011 edited December 2011

  Ok. I think I got it. Thanks. :-)

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• atilim Maintainer

  December 2011

  @chipster123
  For future, supporting WebP http://code.google.com/speed/webp/ can also be solution. We're thinking about this.

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