Creating An iPad And iPhone Game That Fits For Both Devices But is The Same App?

FallingBoxStudios

Hi, I have seen this a lot on the App Store, were a game is for iPads and iPhones, but its in the same app (so there is not a different version of the app for iPads) but how do I do this? Thanks.

- Hunter

KevinCross

If it's a single scene game or only a couple of scenes then copying and resizing those scenes for each device is a real easy one. It also gives you more placement control of UI, ie. you may find that on the iPhone your buttons work best across the bottom of the screen but on an iPad they work better on the right and because of the screen size you may find you can add an extra button or two that you've had to hide away on the iPhone.

Create a load scene that detects the screen size and send them to the relevant sized scenes.

I find this simpler than any of the current universal builds but you'd want to make sure you've finished the scenes before copying them for other devices otherwise any changes you make to one will probably need to be made to others, and that could get messy.

This isn't a good idea if you've got dozens/hundreds of scenes for your game, but then it probably would have been better to think of a universal build to use before creating so many scenes.

FallingBoxStudios

@KevinCross Thanks! luckily my game will only require a few scenes

FallingBoxStudios

@KevinCross Btw: How do I make it so that on the App Store, it makes it clear its also for iPad, where it also shows iPad screenshots and all that?

jonmulcahy

when you upload to itunes connect you have to upload screenshots for all supported devices. based on the binary you upload, itunes knows what is supported.

FallingBoxStudios

@jonmulcahy Okay, thanks