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pravin
Member
Hello Everyone,
We are start the development for the iPad. The game will able to run on iPad as well on iPhone device. I have few question before to start the development.
1. The same app will run on iPhone and iPad?
2. Should we need to develop two separate app for iPhone and iPad?
3. Which version of Cocos-2d used to develop the game for iPhone and iPad?
Please advise.
cadillac
Member
Technically you can run iPhone apps on an iPad. Meaning yes, the same app can run on both. Keep in mind iPhone apps don't look their best when run on the iPad.
You can use cocos2d v0.99.0-rc and up. See: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/archives/511
Before anything else, I suggest you read the iPad programming guide from apple.
pravin
Member
Thanks Codemattic,
The resolution of iPad and iPhone is not same.
So we need to create the different resource files (ex. images) for iPad and iPhone.
If we choose the Universal app, this will increase the application size.
I think we need to create the two separate project for iPhone and iPad.
If we choose universal app what will be the drawback and advantages?
Please provide your feedback.
Since the 3G download size is 20MB - if you can stay under that and still fit iphone and ipad graphics you should go with universal. The only downside I see to universal app is if you wanted to charge extra for ipad version.
If you plan future updates to your app, it may be more difficult to keep two versions of the code in sync if you don't do universal.
As an ipad owner, I look for universal apps. I'm very unlikely to pay for the same game twice.
Keeping two versions of the code in sync is hard like jd says, but keeping one project with two targets is easy. I'd say go for the two versions rather than increasing the app size two-fold, besides you get more exposure with 2 apps (cheesy, but we need all the help we can get right?)
just a note as universal app developper. It's hard to create a good app for iphone and ipad. Due to the difference in resolution and power. If you want to have a polished version for iphone and ipad, you need to do a lot of tweaks for the graphics as mentionned above but also for performance issue sometimes (for example an animation will be nice on the ipad but not on the iphone because the iphone has less cpu power)
So I went the easy route, I've made my app for ipad but keep in mind that it should run on iphone...basically I compute a ratio between the ipad screen resolution and the device the app is running on, and use it to display things....But it is really not optimal and the graphics are realyl not nice on the iphone when everything is scaled down. Another issue is the user interface, optimal user interface is really different according to your screen resolution.
So I won't release it as universal app because the user experience is not good on the iphone, and I don't want have bad rating because of iphone users (yes ratings are merged for universal app and that's a problem!). But from a business point of view, the iphone market is so large...it makes sense to adapt the app if it is possible.
so finally to answer the question, I think that doing two versions is better (at least for an indie dev that has no time to polished iphone and ipad version). Perhaps releasing first a version on ipad or iphone, and then releasing another one is the best (at least for me!)
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