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I’m making a retina iPad app. When I test with iPad simulator I get a nice display of my icons and buttons etc…
But when I switch to the retina simulator I get big buttons and images… Is that normal? Unfortunately I haven’t a real iPad to test on.
Yes it is normal.
The reason being is the resolution of the retina display is 2048×1536 while the regular iPad is 1024×768.
When you test your app in the regular simulator, you’ll see your app in 1024×768, which will appear “regular sized” on your display. When you test your app in the retina simulator, you’ll be seeing your app in the full 2048×1536 resolution. And since chances are very good your computer monitor is not a retina display, you’ll see it a bigger window with scaled up UI elements.
If you test your app on an iPad with a retina display you’ll see everything is the same size as on a non retina iPad, since the physical screen size is the same.