iPhone Plus Screen - Why No Third Party App Updates?

[AlliFlowers]

Vector graphics are key in screen resolution.

The important question here is are the apps looking crappy universal binaries? Those apps should work on all iOS devices regardless of screen size. The ones where you have to buy separate apps for iPhone and iPad should be the only ones giving you problems.

 

[chrise2]

On the 6 plus, there's standard view and zoomed view. I wonder if developers have to account for this as well.

 

[anthonymoody]

The approval process was already backed up (around 15 days from what I understand) owed to apps updating for iOS 8, and that was *before* Apple announced the new screen sizes. I can only imagine that the wait is even longer now. The good news is that they'll obviously get here eventually.

 

[Pochi Hanaki]

Then I suggest you contact Twitter, Tumblr, and Alien Blue developers because that's exactly what they did and the apps are great apps.

Also contact CNN because their iPhone 6 optimized app is identical on the 6 and 6+.

Twitter which has a review average of 2 out of 5. Yea I would be holding that app as a great way to program.

 

[Steviejobz]

I am a developer so I know that if you want to make use of each screen size you have to code for each. If you just want an app to auto scale then no you don't. A good developer will code each screen.

+1. This is not as simple as some @media CSS variable. It can be, but the results will be terrible as most things will just looked squeezed or blurry which is the current complaint.

Any dev worth his or her salt will want to actually use the 6 plus real estate appropriately, taking into consideration landscape view options. That should be on of the selling points. But as I stated, this is not an automatic thing as it requires effort and resource which could be used for creating something else for the large installed base of ipads or smaller form iphones.

 

[jettrue]

Seems slow to me, but it makes sense there's a backlog.

 

[kronusdark]

Most apps will will only require new image assets to prevent the blurring (The new PDF asset support and Storyboard launch images should take care of that), if developers have been taking advantage of size classes and auto layout changes announced in June, then the transition should be mostly painless. Unfortunately, I know how hard it can be to convince a PM you should be preparing for a device that hasn't been announced yet so *shrug*.

 

[xraydoc]

The funny thing is that apple hasn't even updated the Apple Store app yet. I thought apple would at least get all of their own apps up to standard before releasing the phone to public.

I don't think the iWork apps have been optimized yet either.