Apple obliges "iPhone X display support" for all applications



For Apple developers, regarding new apps to be submitted for review on April 2018 for delivery on the App Store, everything has to support the 5.8 inch Super Retina display on iPhone X Explicitly stated. In other words, in order to distribute the application on the App Store after April 2018, it is located at the top of the screen of iPhone XThe protruding part(Display notch) and a vertical display of aspect ratio of about 19.5: 9.

Apple will require all new apps to natively support iPhone X display from April | 9to5Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/15/apple-require-new-apps-support-iphone-x/

Apple says new apps must support the iPhone X Super Retina display - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017902/apple-iphone-x-app-support-super-retina-display

Apple says all new iPhone apps must support iOS 11 SDK, iPhone X display as of April
http://appleinsider.com/articles/18/02/15/apple-says-all-new-iphone-apps-must-support-ios-11-sdk-iphone-x-display-as-of-april

Speaking of iPhone X, the size is located between iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, but the display is as large as 5.8 inches, so that you can display a lot of information at once. Although the aspect ratio of the display of iPhone up to now was 16: 9, the display of iPhone X is considerably portrait with the aspect ratio of about 19.5: 9, and when the application does not correspond to the display of iPhone X, Even if you use iPhone X which gave a big screen with a big screen, black margins are displayed above and below the display, so you can not cut off the big screen.

It is obvious if you look at the following tweets how much the display area of ​​the application spreads if it corresponds to iPhone X.


There is also opinion that iPhone X is not anxious because the margin does not emit since it is an organic EL display.


Also pointed out that the 5.8-inch iPhone X screen will be smaller than the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 / 6s / 7/8 Plus. In the case of iPhone X, there is no home button, so a bar for returning to the home screen is displayed at the bottom of the screen, but in the case of an application with landscape orientation, this bar and application screen should be displayed so as not to be covered Because there is also.


Meanwhile, Apple has stated that it is essential to support iPhone X's Super Retina display for applications submitted to the App Store review after April 2018.

Also, from April it is said that all newly delivered apps need to be created with the iOS 11 SDK. In addition, Apple actively encourages the adoption of new functions of iOS 11 such as Core ML, SiriKit, and ARKit.

"It needs to be created with the iOS 11 SDK" is just that compiling with the iOS 11 SDK is necessary, and not necessarily the application must support new functions. This is aimed at having developers use the latest developers tool called iOS 11 SDK, to prevent the entire App Store from becoming old and to actively adopt cutting-edge functions I will.

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