iPhone - multiple targets multiple launch images nightmare

Question

I have a project with 2 applications in two flavors each, iPhone and iPad. So, the project has 4 targets. It is obviously not universal.

To easy things, lets call each application AAA and BBB.

The launch images are named like this:

AAA for iPhone

• AAAiPhone.png
• [email protected]

AAA for iPad

• [email protected]
• AAAiPad-Portrait.png
• [email protected]
• AAAiPad-Landscape.png

The BBB images have the same name structure, with BBB instead of AAA in the name.

I have added this UILaunchImageFile to each plist, like this:

• AAA for iPhone ... Launch Image (iPhone) = AAAiPhone.png
• AAA for iPad ... Launch Image (iPad) = AAAiPad.png
• BBB for iPhone ... Launch Image (iPhone) = BBBiPhone.png
• BBB for iPad ... Launch Image (iPad) = BBBiPad.png

When I drag the images to the proper place holder on Xcode it goes fine for AAA, but when I do that for BBB it overwrites all AAA images. It appears to be ignoring the info.plist information.

Any clues?

thanks

Answer 1

It's because the images are renamed to Default.png (or another name same for each target).

You need to do it like this:

Add a entry in your plist for each target. iPad: Launch image (iPad) iPhone Launch image (iPhone)

Use a different string for each target. Place the images with that string to your resource files (also make sure that only the desired images are active in the desired target).

Example:

• Target 1

  • plist: Launch image (iPad) = AAADefaultiPad
  • Place files: [email protected] and AAADefaultiPad.png

• Target 2

  • plist: Launch image (iPad) = BBBDefaultiPhone
  • Place files: [email protected] and BBBDefaultiPhone.png

Edit 1: Place the images as you would place a image file into your graphic resources. Do not place it in the image space under Target "Summary".

Works for me pretty well.

Answer 2

I've written up instructions along with a GitHub project.

https://github.com/brennanMKE/MultipleTargets

There are many steps and details to handle for everything you will want to do to fully support multiple target builds from a single Xcode project. That sample addresses...

1. Unique app identifier for each build target
2. Unique launch graphics
3. Unique app icons
4. Custom C Flags to manage distinct functionality for each build target

Answer 3

I had some problems regarding multiple targets(iPhone) X multiple launch images/multiple icons when I had to add Retina icons & launch images. To solve this, I had to do do the following in plist:

• Regarding Icons(low res & retina): In each target, I deleted the entry Icon Files (iOS 5), and added another one (Icon file). Then I modified this row (Icon file) to Icon files (basically, in singular it's type is String, and plural it automatically becomes Array), and added the image files reference, as the following:

• Regarding the launch images (low res & retina): I did as Jonas suggested, but using the image with retina specs (640 x 960). It works both in low res and hi res.

Answer 4

It is actually very simple:

1. Define "Launch image" in plist with a string you want to replace "Default" in the file name. Default.png becomes MyAppName.png etc.

2. Simply create your filenames conforming with default filenames such as:

MyAppName.png

[email protected]

[email protected]

MyAppName-Landscape@2x~ipad.png

MyAppName-Landscape~ipad.png

MyAppName-Portrait@2x~ipad.png

MyAppName-Portrait~ipad.png