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segunda-feira, 14 de julho de 2014

How to Add Splash Screen in iOS Application

The Splash Screen is a thing that we will see for a few seconds when we open a mobile app. The Splash Screen is useful in many ways that could urge user knowledge as good as strengthen a mobile app brand. It shows users that they non-stop a right app, and is a good forgive to uncover off a app logo.

According to Apple, a Splash Screen could also give an sense to users that a app is quick and responsive. So if we have an iOS app, we can cruise adding a Splash Screen too.

In this educational in a Cordova series, we are going to uncover we how to emanate a Splash Screen. Make certain that we have followed a prior posts on this where we:

Set a plan for mobile growth with Cordova,

Built a simple UI with jQuery Mobile, and

Adding a app icon.

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Getting Started

First, we will see a sizes compulsory to emanate a Splash Screen. Similar with adding a app icon, a Splash Screen picture sizes will change in suitability to a iOS chronicle that a app will support. As an instance herein, we will need 3 picture sizes; see this list subsequent for a detail.

This list is simplified by calssifiying a picture distance within a iOS chronicle supported. Since, in this table, we insincere that iOS 7 is usually commissioned in a iPhone with Retina display. So, there we can see iOS 7 requires usually a top picture size: 640×960 and 640×1136, that will be used in iPhone 5 and 5c that has shade distance of 4 inches.

Once we have figured out a sizes, we can start formulating a Spalsh Screen images. You can openly use whichever focus that we have informed with to emanate a images. Save a images as PNG, and name them in a following convention.

These are a customary filenames that Cordova as good as Xcode use to pick-up a Splash Screen image. Following this gathering will equivocate us from unconnected setup in Xcode, in sequence for it to find out a customized record names.

Here is my Splash Image that I’ve combined with Photoshop.

Adding a Splash Screen

Now, it is time to supplement a Splash Screen picture to a app. To do so, pierce your images to this folder: TheProjectDirectory/platforms/ios/TheAppName/Resources/splash. In Xcode, accumulate a app by clicking a Play button; a app will be launched in iPhone Simulator and we should see a Splash Screen is shown for a few seconds before we entirely enter to a app.

Final Thought

To sum all up, we now have a app calm (albeit it’s a manikin content), dual menu navigation during a right with a shifting row ala Facebook, we also have combined icon, and lastly here we’ve only combined a Splash Screen. Our app is scarcely finish and we are now really tighten to finish and launch a app.

So, in a subsequent post, we will how to accumulate a app into a distributable app with Phonegap. Stay tuned.

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