iOS Icon

therevills

(Posted 2011) [#1]

How do you create and use an icon for iOS?

I guess you have to alter the info.plist file.. but what path and file type?

Thanks!

xzess

(Posted 2011) [#2]

what worked for me, drop an icon.png with 57x57 px and a hq icon@... with 114x114px into xcode, it asks to add it, confirm
then goto your plist rightclick it, getinfo and somewhere down there is a point which asks for an icon, add there your icon.png (the 2x gets automatically choosen with retina devices)

therevills

(Posted 2011) [#3]

Thanks xzess - Ill have a go...

BTW what are retina devices?

matt	(Posted 2011) [#4]

iPhone 4 has a retina display (twice the pixels of an iPhone 3GS). iPad sits somewhere in between and requires a 72px icon.

Also, keep in mind when creating your icon that you need a 512x512px version for when you add it to the App Store.

Here's a full list: http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/708404794/ios-app-icon-sizes

therevills

(Posted 2011) [#5]

Cheers Matt :)

therevills

(Posted 2011) [#6]

With the 512x512 icon do you need to add it to you xcode project or do you use it when you add your app to the store?

Thanks!

matt	(Posted 2011) [#7]

Just for the app store, really.

There are ways of adding it to the project to provide an icon for ad-hoc/beta test builds but it's not essential.