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you know that cool looming effect you get when you launch anaya last
application whether that split second where we seem to be zooming in
on the applications first screen
well this is an is ally
we're not looking at
our ask first imbue controller or
any of you control of the application
and might look like that but all it is is there's an image being provided
by our application so that while eyelashes actually loading the relapse
they can do a nice animated doom
of what you're after
it's supposed to look like
now you may have noticed as when you've been working with these projects in tax
code
if i create state and master detail application on this call this one
image test make sure that it's for iphone just cuz i was going to be easier
to look at while i'm recording this
we can run and install in the simulator and all the functionality is fine
but we won't get that animated vim
now have to have the homebound and go out and try it again to see that that
all will get
is black
we can see a little bit of a doomed status bar
but that's it
as opposed to sabic settings application
when we get the blank page or contacts where we get the blank page
or getting center where we get the green background
so what do we need to do to get back all of them in fact what we need to provide
a launch damaged the size of the iphone screen
these are
required before you can submit your out to be at store
and you need to provide
if you're making an iphone app
one is for a regular i've gone and one is for the retina display
two images for and i tired out but there's one for landscaping one for
portrait
now some applications use this opportunity
to show a
splash image and not short time between the application being requested an
actually opening up
this is actually discouraged by apple you're not supposed to do it that way
your application launch image it's supposed to look like your first screen
without any data or text
and that's what you steal on most of the apple ones
one of the reasons for this so you could localize your tap into multiple
languages
and he wouldn't have a mismatch by having a launch image with only say
english on it
so what will be the best way
to make one of these
one of one really is
this first page of the application without any data on it without any text
without any entry in the table p
i could
we create this in photoshop or fireworks but that would be a little too yes
because i can get ahead now
what i'm looking at the apt in the stimulate i'm going to go to the final
menu and i've got option for saving a screenshot
that's going to give me an image of the right side in the right kind of p_n_g_
file
and equip out of the simulator and is minimized xcode
and on the desktop year i have the iowa stimulate a screenshot
so i'd like to make a little changed that as you could use photoshop
fireworks whatever image editing your half i'm just gonna open up and pixel
later on
i'm just going to do something
very basic and a few seconds here
i want to blind count
the text that we have so i'm going to be a low-tech
and just and unjust dragged in
yes i'll continue i don't mind editing the original image here
this dragon a white rectangle two overlay that
i could go ahead
and clear off the status bar and also the nap bar here but this will do the
trick is to prove our point
something to say that quit at the pics on my door back into xcode
what i need to do
is make sure the in my project navigator i have the
project itself selected the very talked like on not any of the individual files
but this needs to be highlighted
and then making sure the in the middle section i got my
image cast my project target highlighted
thanks pam north a little bit
in the project for things that we have
we have an area where we cannot drag on
the launch image
for an eye for a nap
you'll see one for regular high phone giving you the dimensions one for the
retina display
that won't let you
drag on something
of substantially wrong dimensions here
if you're working with an eye patch
you'd see a portrait and landscaper shin
and it's going to open up a finder window and jump out to the desktop
and i can't grab that p_n_g_ and drag it over here and to be regular on from
section
and we can see a little preview of that it'll still move that into my project
under the name
default dot p_n_g_
so let's go back to run this
built succeeded we open up the simulator we loaded and of course we don't get the
first time around
but the fiery open it
we can see that we have the looming in fact the
good indicated here
it almost looks like the words are just
licking on after the upload
and that is the approach for doing it now
the iphone and i found retina display are supposed to be full-size either for
eighty by three twenty
nine fifty
by six forty
i had used a regular by phone example but i could also do is switch any
stimulator my hardware to the iphone retina display
important here to make sure
i'm not a hundred percent scale
even though from the u_s_ little difficult to manage
then i can open it up and take
another screenshot
for the retina displaying repeat the process there
i know that actually do that right now but you see how that would work
for the iphone and recommend display they're supposed to be the full side we
should include status bar where it would be
i've had launch images
you're not supposed to include status bar
specially shaped twenty pixels off for both portrait landscape
and simplify went ahead and actually
changed that
second image that i've captured
i can see the storm by highlighting its exported by nine sixty i could just drag
that one
onto the retina display size
course i haven't edited it yet
but you get the idea analyst is you having the required at launch images
for your application