My login to the forum seems not to be working, otherwise I would post a reply.
From the information, it seems like it’s a Portrait app. I think Apple’s response is incorrect, and that trying to appeal to them might be successful. There’s a difference between what I was talking about, where you support iPhone 4 but not iPhone 5, that’s not allowed any more, and the report that’s in the forum. If you have an iPhone-only app, and someone uses it on an iPad, it’s bound to have borders if you have done exactly iPhone sizes. > On Feb 8, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > > Last month I asked: > >> Colin Holgate wrote: >> >> > Being letterboxed isn’t a quality issue, it isn’t even bad. It’s just >> > that Apple would reject the app. >> >> On what grounds? > > If there was an answer I missed it, but it seems Apple prefers that users get > the full benefit of their screen size. > > A fella in the forums has had an app rejected from that: > <http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=26492> > > Personally, it seems an understandable position from a phone maker: phones > are small enough as it is, why use less of the screen than is there? > > It's not a platform thing, it's a quality thing. If you want your user to > feel good about running your app on the phone they choose, why not take a few > minutes to resize the screen elements so that can happen? > > I can appreciate the development time savings with letterboxing, but I'm with > Apple on this, it just isn't an optimal experience for the user, on any > platform. > > Maybe one of the advocates of letterboxing here can drop into that forum > thread to help Joel out. > > I look forward to seeing what gets posted there. Hopefully I'll learn how > letterboxing can be useful. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
