Question

I have to develop an application for both ios phones and tablets. The application logic is the same, while the UI is completely different. I’m wondering how I should deal with this: make 1 big app for both, or an app for phone and an app for tablet (and then upload the 2 ipa’s as 1 app in the market).

When I make 1 application, I should check if it’s phone or tablet in code to redirect to the appropriate activity. Also I should include compatibility code to make it compile for phones. If I would make 2 apps, I don’t need that check and I also don’t need to include the compatibility code, so the app would be a lot smaller. But in that case I’ll have to copy/paste the application logic constantly from one project to the other one while development.

So that’s why I’m wondering, what’s the best practice in this case? I’ve been searching for information about this, but I only find articles about how to manage the different xml layouts, or articles with not so much information in it.

i googled and found theres an article for android here Android app for phone and tablet: 1 or 2 apps?

But i need to know about ios apps

Answer 1

Put this code into your app delegate class and

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{

    UINavigationController *navController;

    if ([[UIDevice currentDevice] userInterfaceIdiom] == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone) {

         _iPhonehomeScreen = [[NFHomeScreen_iPhone alloc] initWithNibName:@"NFHomeScreen_iPhone" bundle:nil];
        navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:_iphonehomeScreen];
        [navController setNavigationBarHidden:YES];
        self.window.rootViewController = navController;
    }
    else {
        _iPadhomeScreen = [[NFHomeScreen_iPad alloc] initWithNibName:@"NFHomeScreen_iPad" bundle:nil];
        navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:_iPadhomeScreen];
        [navController setNavigationBarHidden:YES];
        self.window.rootViewController = navController;

    }

    [navController release];
}

now use two xib for iPad and iPhone with common .h and .m file for same.