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Apple Says Third-Party Apps Can Take Full Advantage of ProMotion With Plist Entry, Core Animation Bug Fix Coming [Updated]
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Dark Mode is not an easy on/off switch though. A TON of design retooling has to happen for dark mode to be usable.
Yes and no.
Yes, because technically, you can just about flip a switch and have your app "support" dark mode.
No, because if you care about the quality of your product, you will:
1. check every page in your app to make sure it looks good in light and dark mode
2. provide specific colors to UI elements that look good together and look appropriate for light and dark mode
3. create (or have someone create) a new set of image assets so your app looks good in dark mode.
Not always. If you use standard controls and don’t override colors, it came for free.
In my own apps, I prepared by adding theming ahead of time, and it made it about a half hour job when the sdk‘s got released.
Proactive? They have not even prepared the documentation, and it's still buggy. Seems like it's half baked, the hardware is ready but the software barely made it to production.
You’re a bug, I’m a bug we’re all bugs. I don’t know I’m bored 🙃
Good to see. This is something that should've been communicated to developers before the iPhones came out, not after, so that apps could be updated before the phones came out (like every other iPhone launch).
Let's hope they push updates fast.
Let's hope they push updates fast.
That's different. After the X was announced and before it was launched, developers still had all the tools and resources they needed to make their apps compatible available to their disposal. Some people at Apple internally dropped the ball, but developers still had the resources.
With the M1, developers didn't have the *option* to use more than 5GB (until iOS 15). Same thing here.
The point is sometimes it needs time to get things into place. When I first got iPhone X there's almost *zero* 3rd party apps using the new screen real estate, whether they have tools or not is almost irrelevant if there is no result. And I had to wait almost a year for the most popular messaging app here to be iPhone X compatible. Such a good time 😓
Airplay 2 kinda begs to differ, no multi-out as a system level option on macos, and magsafe is quite a bit different from previous macs to iphones and presumably whatever they introduce in the new macs this year
When I got my 5700XT, it was not better than my GTX 1080. Yet after driver updates, it resulted in an average of 30% better than my 1080. These things happen....
Rocking an iPhone 13 Pro and the 120Hz display is incredible, good god even my wife who doesn’t care about this stuff noticed how silky smooth and responsive it is.
This is a very nice phone and feels worth the $1,000.
This is a very nice phone and feels worth the $1,000.
So many apple bots here in the comments lmfao. Just look at the first replies guys
Convenient that the fix comes out after all the big publications publish their battery tests and media devices probably have to be returned
Most of the things people did in those tests were using native apps which weren’t affected by the issue… soooooo
Oh wow, dark mode. Even forgot that's a thing. Tried it once, turned off and forgot.
The most interesting thing here is wether Apple provided this info to developers or not at release. If not, how can that even happen? I mean, this was the big "thing" about iPhone 13, and the info to developers that they have to explicitly state their apps want 120Hz was not there? One would think that's not something that you happen to forget with a company as big as Apple with all their love for developers. Unless you were hoping that no one would notice, or that not allowing it would make the battery last a lot longer for first testers and Apple would sneak that info into documentation without any big fanfare a few weeks after release.
Really, something smells fishy here.
Buy now, enjoy 120Hz “later”. When we release the documentation and fix our software “soon”.
Should developers and users have to discover this kind of known issues by themselves?. Why not properly and transparently document ceveats or known lack of support or bugs known?.
A unknown bug is one thing and hiding and purposely omitting to share information is a tooootally different issue.
Should developers and users have to discover this kind of known issues by themselves?. Why not properly and transparently document ceveats or known lack of support or bugs known?.
A unknown bug is one thing and hiding and purposely omitting to share information is a tooootally different issue.
So many fixes and features still „coming“. So embarrassing for such a big company. You would expect this from a company with like 5 developers like us but not Apple
Not that it’s a major issue for any party, but this seems counterintuitive to Apple’s best interests as this means less apps are ready for “showtime” at 13 Pro launch.
Even if a lot don’t care this must be killing a good amount of ProMotion hype.
I have to wonder this announcement is just reaching app devs now because Apple didn’t want them “leaking” the fact that ProMotion was in fact coming to iPhones this year?
Seems very late to only make this announcement post iPhone 13 Pro launch.
Even if a lot don’t care this must be killing a good amount of ProMotion hype.
I have to wonder this announcement is just reaching app devs now because Apple didn’t want them “leaking” the fact that ProMotion was in fact coming to iPhones this year?
Seems very late to only make this announcement post iPhone 13 Pro launch.
It seems to be 120hz almost all the time (even in third party apps) but with some animations in 60hz. I've been using the phone for just under 24 hours and being the first time I've used a 120hz display the difference is immediately obvious, even in third party apps.
Apple didn’t want developers to leak that the 13 Pro’s would have a 120Hz ProMotion display, in advance.