So what happens to people running ios 6 on old ios devices when the new resolution becomes standard in the next few months, do we get stretched apps or what?
So what happens to people running ios 6 on old ios devices when the new resolution becomes standard in the next few months, do we get stretched apps or what?
So what happens to people running ios 6 on old ios devices when the new resolution becomes standard in the next few months, do we get stretched apps or what?
No, you just will not upgrade to the newer apps
so all apps will be made for old ios' and then be formatted to run on the new resolution?
the way it works is a developer creates multiple UIs for different resolutions...this is already done by apps that are universal for iPhone and iPad.
In theory, a developer could choose to support ONLY the iPhone 5, but if they don't make a UI for 3.5" screens, Apple won't allow it to be marked to run on older devices. They'll tell the developer to make a UI if they want their app available on older devices. So the app wouldn't be available to nearly as many people, and no developer is dumb enough to do that. Especially when porting the app to the different resolution takes very little time (I'd estimate most apps could make the shift in < 10 hours)