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Xcode or iOS won't use my Icon-72.png on the iPad

Answer 1

+3 A:

Did you add the icons to the Info.plist? You will need to make sure you added in an entry for "CFBundleIconFiles" and add each into the list. You can see it at the Apple Developer website with screenshots there:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/qa/qa2010/qa1686.html#IPHONEADDITEMS

If you don't do that, it will only use the one icon.

christophercotton 2010-07-15 20:57:20

That works if you're only deploying to iOS 3.2 and greater. I need to build to 3.0 as my minimum. Apple spells out the naming convention that should work for 3.2 and 4.0 to grab the right icons based on their name: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/iphone/conceptual/iphoneosprogrammingguide/BuildTimeConfiguration/BuildTimeConfiguration.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007072-CH7-SW1

2010-07-15 21:08:15

Yeah, I see that the name works. I wonder if you can still use the CFBundleIconFiles, since it lets me use that and set the "Deployment SDK version" to 3.0. I don't have a 3.x device to test it on though. Since I assume you are compiling against the 4.0 SDK. I believe all AppStore submissions require that or 3.2.Also, I assume you have checked that the Icon-72.png is selected for the target you are building?

christophercotton 2010-07-15 22:04:09

Answer 2

+3 A:

If you want the iPad to pick up multiple icons without specifying their names, make sure CFBundleIconFile (the singular of the other suggestion) is unset. If it's set to a particular icon file, that icon will always be used, regardless of which device you're on.

Though christophercotten is correct about the 3.2+ method for specifying multiple icon files, if they're different from the default values.

Nick 2010-07-15 22:32:47

I tested it out on the iPad simulator, and by deleting the "Icon File" it did use the Icon-72.png file. Adding in the "Icon File" with Icon.png made it fail.

christophercotton 2010-07-15 22:50:12

Yeah, brotha! Thanks a million, Nick. I wish the Apple docs were clearer on this point. Hopefully others will find this.

2010-07-16 00:58:48

Answer 3

+1 A:

This is what works for me across 6 different projects on iPhone and iPad. The Info.plist file has these entries:

<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
<string>Icon</string>
<key>CFBundleIconFiles</key>
<array>
    <string>Icon.png</string>
    <string>Icon-58.png</string>
    <string>Icon-72.png</string>
    <string>Icon-114.png</string>
    <string>Icon-Small-50.png</string>
    <string>Icon-Small.png</string>
</array>

Note that the CFBundleIconFile is set. I have had no problems with including it.

And the icon files are all in PNG format and have these file names and sizes:

Icon.png, 57px.
Icon-58.png, 58px
Icon-72.png, 72px
Icon-114.png, 114px.
Icon-Small.png, 29px.
Icon-Small-50.png, 50px.

Make sure your project is copying the icon PNG files to your app bundle for all targets. I'm building and linking against the iOS 4.0 SDK, with the Deployment target set to 3.1.3.

lucius 2010-07-15 23:12:14

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