iOS 6 background image

Question

I have an iOs app with full screen gradient background. Now, with iphone 5 size of screen is different and of course I would like to support both 5th and 4th devices.

What is recommended way to do it?

Answer 1

From the post I linked to in the comment

#import <sys/utsname.h>

NSString*
machineName()
{
struct utsname systemInfo;
uname(&systemInfo);

return [NSString stringWithCString:systemInfo.machine
                          encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
}

The result should be:

@"i386"      on the simulator
@"iPod1,1"   on iPod Touch
@"iPod2,1"   on iPod Touch Second Generation
@"iPod3,1"   on iPod Touch Third Generation
@"iPod4,1"   on iPod Touch Fourth Generation
@"iPhone1,1" on iPhone
@"iPhone1,2" on iPhone 3G
@"iPhone2,1" on iPhone 3GS
@"iPad1,1"   on iPad
@"iPad2,1"   on iPad 2
@"iPhone3,1" on iPhone 4
@"iPhone4,1" on iPhone 4S

I'm assuming this will return something like @"iPhone5,1" for the latest model. Then just do a check like

NSString *iphoneType = machineName();
if ([iphoneType isEqualToString@"iPhone5,1"]){
    //image for iphone 5
} else {
           //image for the rest
}

Let me know if that works out