Why isn't my Asset Catalog returning R4 images?

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Neal Ehardt picture Neal Ehardt · Sep 20, 2013 · Viewed 11.8k times · Source

I'm in the process of migrating my images to an Asset Catalog. My app needs to access the Launch Image after launch and display it on the screen.

Easy enough, but I have different images for short and tall iPhones, and my iPhone 5 is loading the short launch image when I call [UIImage imageNamed:@"LaunchImage"].

Okay so maybe I can't do this with a Launch Image. I'll try putting some images in a normal Image Set instead.

Image Set

No dice. Using an iPhone 5, when I call [UIImage imageNamed:@"Derp"] OR when I set an image in Interface Builder, I get the 2x (retina) image instead of the R4 (retina 4-inch) image.

Is this feature broken? How to I get the R4 image on my iPhone 5 (iOS 7)?

Answer

Coolsinus picture Coolsinus · Sep 27, 2013

For the R4 image to be automatically selected by Xcode you have to change the iOS Target to iOS 7. So even if you use the iOS7 SDK, your project target must be iOS 7.

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