iPhone 4 Tab Bar Icons

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mixja picture mixja · Sep 8, 2010 · Viewed 20.4k times · Source

I'm having some issues getting high resolution tab bar icons displaying correctly for iPhone 4. Basically I'm using the Apple guidelines of 96 x 64 for high resolution icons, but when I do this, my icon looks like it is being scaled many times in the tab bar icon area and only part of the icon appears. If I set the icon size to 30 x 30, the icon displays correctly in terms of proportions but is not sharp because of the higher resolution of the iPhone 4 display.

I've tried other sizes like 64x64 and 60x60 but I get similar problems.

Any ideas?

Answer

LarsJK picture LarsJK · Sep 8, 2010

you have to add @2x to youre iPhone 4 image..

So if you have a 30x30 image named image.png, make a 60x60 version and name it [email protected]..

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