Question

I’m getting my app ready to submit to the app store and have been reading the guidelines on the startup screen. It seems apple prefer it to be something that makes it look like your app is already loaded even when it isn’t.

I decided to use the background image of my app as the startup screen. That way the skeleton of the app will be there and the buttons and text will load in.

I used a copy of the image but renamed it to [e-mail].

It works but when it launches, it has that default zoom affect but it seems to zoom in bigger than the actual image size and so doesn’t transition nicely into the app.

Any ideas why this happens and what I can do?

Thanks

Answer 1

OK, I found a way around this.

I found out that the status bar at the top is 40 pixels for retina and 20 for non retina.

I then created a black background in the size of the full iphone 5 resolution. I then got my startup image (actually the background for my app) but resized it down 40 pixels vertically.

I then put this on top of the black background I created and lined up the bottom.

I then merged the layers and used this as the startup image. It worked perfectly, the startup image loads up and then my app opens up right on top of it perfectly aligned.