Comments on: Going The iPad Way: All You Wanted to Know About Creating Universal Apps

By: Nik

Nik — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:41:03 +0000

I also had to set “Targeted Device Family”. That steps seems to be missing here…

By: Meesan | Gaming Computers

Meesan | Gaming Computers — Sun, 30 May 2010 02:55:22 +0000

Very valuable info! I was thinking about buying an ipad and this definitely helps my decision. Your guide was very helpful and i learned a lot from it. Thanks for the great article! keep it up!

By: Andre Jacobs

Andre Jacobs — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:27:31 +0000

Thanks for the great info! I have also found the following post from Jeff LaMarche that shows you how to setup different main XIB and different key value pairs in the info.plist and detect iPhone/iPad at run time. http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2010/04/converting-iphone-apps-to-universal.html

By: Noel

Noel — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:57:17 +0000

For what it’s worth, for the Lorax Garden, I ended up just attaching the image. It’s not as nicely integrated because it shows up at the bottom of the email (and it gets resized for you whether you want it or not), but it’s a lot simpler.

That’s an example of an API that the high-level is very convenient, but I really wish Apple would expose some lower-level functionality. Actually, that goes for most APIs

By: shul

shul — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:54:59 +0000

@Noel Ah! That explains it then, thanks!

p.s. I looked everywhere as well. For some reason adding html is possible and attaching an image is possible, but combining the two in a way that will show the image and then the text is not..

By: Noel

Noel — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:23:56 +0000

Thanks everybody. Glad you’re enjoying Flower Garden on the iPad.

Shul, adding the image in the middle of the email requires uploading the image to my server and creating an HTML body that has an img tag pointing to it. As far as I can tell (and I’ve looked all over the place), you can’t reference an attached image in the body.

By: jsd

jsd — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:03:31 +0000

Thanks for the article, very interesting. I was particularly excited to read your solution to the “test in iPhone simulator” conundrum, since I had asked that very question on the Apple forums a few days ago, and was told in no uncertain terms that it was impossible. In fact, I went back there with your tip, and received an admonition from an Apple engineer: “You are asking for obscure, hard-to-track crashes by doing that. If you want to test a Universal app on an iPhone, use real hardware. Period.”

So… be warned.

By: Joseph Young

Joseph Young — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:07:02 +0000

Great post! With WWDC in June, do you expect the 4.0 SDK to roll out before July?

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:48:08 +0000

Noel, I downloaded the software on my ipad for mother’s day and I must say it’s awesome!! It is so ipad-ready I really enjoyed the experience.
+1

By: shul

shul — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:24:12 +0000

Noel,
I downloaded the software on my ipad for mother’s day and I must say it’s awesome!! It is so ipad-ready I really enjoyed the experience.

How did you get the email to add your icon and other text *after* the image?

shul

By: Tarlen

Tarlen — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:11:18 +0000

Quick note that I found quite useful: UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(interfaceOrientation)

By: Lazrhog

Lazrhog — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:54:42 +0000

Haven’t got my iPad yet, but this whole experience of yours will come in very useful. Thank you very much indeed