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Corner Radius for iOS icons

April 20, 2012

If you are designing icons for iOS in say Photshop or Illustrator and you want to have a border aroud the icon, you need to know the corner radius (radii?) so iOS doesn't cut them out. 

 

We tried to find the exact information for ages, but couldn't get a definitive answer. Until now.

 

Taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2105289/iphone-app-icons-exact-radius/10239376#10239376

 

The radii are:

 

  1. Icon512.png - 512px - 89.8245614035098
  2. Icon.png - 57px - 10
  3. Icon@2x.png - 114px - 20
  4. Icon-72.png - 72px - 12.6315789473686
  5. Icon-72@2x.png - 144px - 25.2631578947371
  6. Icon-Small.png - 29px - 5.08771929824567
  7. Icon-Small@2x.png - 58px - 10.1754385964913

Very handy bit of information

UIPopover without an arrow

April 04, 2012

Ever wanted to place a UIPopover on a View but not have an arrow?

 

The UIPopoverDirectionArrowDirection enum is defined as

 

enum {
 UIPopoverArrowDirectionUp = 1UL << 0,
 UIPopoverArrowDirectionDown = 1UL << 1,
 UIPopoverArrowDirectionLeft = 1UL << 2,
 UIPopoverArrowDirectionRight = 1UL << 3,
 UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny = UIPopoverArrowDirectionUp | UIPopoverArrowDirectionDown |
 UIPopoverArrowDirectionLeft | UIPopoverArrowDirectionRight,
 UIPopoverArrowDirectionUnknown = NSUIntegerMax
};

Which doesn't include UIPopoverArrowDirectionNone, or does it?

 

There is an undocumented feature that if you call presentPopoverFromRect with a 0 for permittedArrowDirections, it will show no arrows. I'm not sure if this is 100% supported by Apple, but a trawl around the internet suggests that apps using this have been accepted.

 

So call the code like below, and hey presto! No arrows


 

[self.configPopover presentPopoverFromRect:CGRectMake(setupButton.center.x,

                                                      setupButton.center.y,

                                                                  250, 200) 

                                        inView:self.view 

                      permittedArrowDirections:0

                                      animated:YES];


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April 03, 2012

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