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BorisHansen
Inspiring
Aug 25, 2014 6:56 PM UTC
Question

iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 - which stage size?

I'm developing an AIR app for iPhone 4 and 5. The app is centered around a video which I have exported in two versions, a 960x640 version for iPhone 4 and an 1136x640 version for iPhone 5.

Ideally, I would like to just detect whether I'm on an iPhone 4 or 5 and then add the right video and play it. However, I don't know how thisis affected by the stage size, which has to be one resolution or the other. I assume that if the stage size is set to 960x640, it will scale up on an iPhone 5 - and scale down on an iPhone 4 if set to 1136x640.

In my situation, how would you solve this problem? Is there a way to prevent scaling and just placing the right video on the stage at 0,0?

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    Justin_as3_rules
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    Sep 20, 2014 9:03 PM UTC

    Thanks Colin, I was missing the h in the Default-568h@2x.png.  I have changed the resolution to high (I was hoping not to have to do this, as in the past it worked fine for previous apps on high res ipad devices).  It is compiling now so hopefully it works properly. 

    Cheers,

    Justin

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    Justin_as3_rules
    Known Participant
    Sep 20, 2014 9:07 PM UTC

    It worked.....you are awesome.

    Justin

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    Colin Holgate
    Colin Holgate
    Inspiring
    Sep 20, 2014 9:33 PM UTC

    You can disable the iPad 3 Retina with this entry in the XML:

    <requestedDisplayResolution excludeDevices="iPad3">high</requestedDisplayResolution>

    That way it's Retina for the other devices, but you don't have to suffer the poor performance of the iPad 3 Retina.

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    BorisHansenAuthor
    Inspiring
    Aug 28, 2014 6:19 PM UTC

    Thanks. And just to be clear: If I set scaleMode to NO_SCALE, and I play a video of 1136 px width in an app with 960 px stage width, it will show up as fullscreen on iPhone 5?

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    Colin Holgate
    Colin Holgate
    Inspiring
    Aug 28, 2014 6:29 PM UTC

    You will need to look at the stage width and if it's 1136, play the 1136 wide video. If it's 960, play the 960 video. In both cases the video would be a 0,0.

    Don't forget to include the Default-568h@2x.png splash screen, without that the iPhone 5 will act like a 960x640 screen.

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