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Major Apps Still Not Optimized for the iPhone 6/6 Plus
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That will take a while, since 4" devices are still sold as high end phones (iPhone 5S)
My version definatly does support the iPhone 6+ screen...
Maybe its just the UK version?
Kevin
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Actually no. Devs for Android could make an app specific to only one resolution if they felt like it. At least, thats what I remember.
One thing I find interesting is that even these apps that are "updated" for the 6 Plus don't support landscape mode.
Discover and the "My Disney Experience" app were both updated today
Finally on Discover. OP updated.
My Verizon just got an update. Doesn't say anything about the newer resolutions compability nor does the app say it's optimized but just opened it and it looks better!
Updated OP. Only a few more to go from my list!
Updated OP. Only a few more to go from my list!
Finally on Discover. OP updated.
Yeah it doesn't say it updated to the new resolution but it definitely did and I'm stoked!
Uhh.....are you sure? Mine is stretched out on my 6+, are you perhaps on a 6?
Nope
I am pretty sure I know what phone I have. Right click the image and check the resolution.
Kev.
the version i have here in the US looks nothing like yours, however it appears to be updated for the 6/6+. it doesnt look blown up or stretched anymore and hasnt for awhile IIRC.
Nobody gives a **** about your shiny new iPhone except you.
Sorry, but that's just the truth of the matter. Until Apple makes it mandatory to support these devices, the developers don't care. That is what Apple has turned the iOS ecosystem into by releasing multiple screen devices. We all know there's a new iPhone right around the corner (that will come with some other peculiar screen size and require a whole new set of graphics), so it's hardly profitable to support the current generation of phones when sales don't seem to be impacted at all by supporting or not supporting the latest greatest screen size natively.
And if Apple does make the new screen size support mandatory, most developers are just going to abandon their apps (no more updates) because, again, it's not worth it to invest all that time and effort refreshing graphics and overhauling the application UI (especially when you've got stupid **** going on with the 6+ screen as detailed here: http://www.paintcodeapp.com/news/iphone-6-screens-demystified).
So if you're going to blame someone, blame Apple. They're the ones who have fragmented their own ecosystem. They could have just blown up the existing resolutions for a larger device, but that wasn't good enough. They had to go and break the existing compatibility with some multiple of 480x320 (starting with the iPhone 5) and continue that trend with the iPhone 6.
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Sorry, but that's just the truth of the matter. Until Apple makes it mandatory to support these devices, the developers don't care. That is what Apple has turned the iOS ecosystem into by releasing multiple screen devices. We all know there's a new iPhone right around the corner (that will come with some other peculiar screen size and require a whole new set of graphics), so it's hardly profitable to support the current generation of phones when sales don't seem to be impacted at all by supporting or not supporting the latest greatest screen size natively.
And if Apple does make the new screen size support mandatory, most developers are just going to abandon their apps (no more updates) because, again, it's not worth it to invest all that time and effort refreshing graphics and overhauling the application UI (especially when you've got stupid **** going on with the 6+ screen as detailed here: http://www.paintcodeapp.com/news/iphone-6-screens-demystified).
So if you're going to blame someone, blame Apple. They're the ones who have fragmented their own ecosystem. They could have just blown up the existing resolutions for a larger device, but that wasn't good enough. They had to go and break the existing compatibility with some multiple of 480x320 (starting with the iPhone 5) and continue that trend with the iPhone 6.
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The iPhone 5 sizing requirements totally killed tons of apps and hurt the App Store and the ecosystem, right?
Haha. I was going to write something similar but the guy obviously wouldn't understand.
Agree...but there is a basic problem here. Apple has lately chosen the easy way to increase sales, which is to please everyone by doing phone sizes for all tastes.
If you take into account all device sizes on the market you have: iPhone 3gs, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, iPhone 6, iPhone 6+ and that's not considering the iPads.
That's of course the easy way to increase sales (that and the entry into huge new markets like Japan), but you fall into the much criticized plague of Android phones...the maligned fragmentation.
Now developers are left with two choices. They can design their apps specifically for each of those sizes (with all the burden of managing lots of different size assets), or they can design generically (using the adaptive UI size classes). The first option is burdensome so often developers opt for the second. The problem is that designing for generic sizes produces lower quality results.
That's the price to pay for an increase in short-term sales, and a step into the wrong direction. The second step was the mediocre iOS 7, which was rushed out just to show-off the work of a new team, and IMHO was not genuinely built with the usual care or taste. I really hope that Apple inverts its direction and priorities and becomes once again the high standards company that we all know and love.
I doubt that the screen size situation is really THAT big a deal, compared to the fragmentation of Android.
On Android you see screen sizes from the upper 3in. (yes, people still make Android phones with 3 inch screens!) all the way up to 6in, and that's just phones. Tablets are ranging from 7 to 13 inches, maybe even more. Apple has 5 current screen sizes. 3.5, 4, 4.7, 5.5, 7.9, and 9.7. However, developers only need to worry about 3 distinct sizes.
The legacy size - iPhone 5S and older (=<4in), because the dimensions are so similar, with the only difference being an extra few rows of pixels, in almost no time the elements can simply just be pushed up.
The new current size - iPhone 6/6+ (4.7 + 5.5) The only major difference here is the 720p vs. 1080p. Because iOS automatically resizes 1080p elements down to 720p, developers only have to worry out one screen, not both.
The tablets - iPad/iPad mini - they've already demonstrated that the iPad mini just does exactly what the iPhone 6 does - it takes its larger companion's app and just makes it slightly smaller.
Because you only have these 3 standard display categories, it's a lot easier for developers to develop their app to take advantage of all 3 sizes, if they so chose. Compare that to Android (and Windows Phone and Blackberry), where there are devices with every size, every aspect ratio, and every shape. There's no real way for an Android developer to make use of all the space with *custom* elements on a 6in and a 4in display fairly. That's why so many apps really are just stretched. That's why Google developed Material Design - it's a universal design that resizes easy and makes excellent use of that extra white space.
The problem is not as bad as android of course, but the consequence is the same. Most developers now usually make one generic app and it will adapt to all sizes, due to the new (lame) adaptative ui frameworks.
That's because the new sizes are not even multiples, so it's difficult to create design assets for each size, and you don't know if they will not come up with a diffrent size/res in the future.
Sadly it seems that apple is slowly loosing it...
That's because the new sizes are not even multiples, so it's difficult to create design assets for each size, and you don't know if they will not come up with a diffrent size/res in the future.
Sadly it seems that apple is slowly loosing it...
I've deleted non optimized res 6+ apps from my phone. I simply won't tolerate it. I don't keep banking apps on my phone, so I just use the regular web on a computer anyways, but I wouldn't expect a bank to up to par with the latest app features. eBay and Paypal are the devil.
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