Support of iOS 5.0 icons with XCode 5

Question

I\'m using the new asset catalog AppIcon to set the right icons for iOS 5 (in theory), 6 and 7. Unfortunately, when installing the application on my iPad 1 (with iOS 5.1.1), the

Answer 1

I've found better solution working on iOS 5 with asset catalog.

Set this in Info.plist (other icons sections like CFBundleIcons are generated and overwritten by Xcode, so leave them empty):

CFBundleIconFiles

    AppIcon57x57.png
    AppIcon72x72.png
    AppIcon57x57@2x.png
    AppIcon72x72@2x.png

and add just two more icons in your resources (outside assets):

AppIcon72x72.png
AppIcon72x72@2x.png

This way you will have only two icons duplicated in your bundle.

The source of problem is that asset catalog generates such icons with ~ipad suffixes which iOS 5 doesn't understand, so we have to add these files without ~ipad suffix manually. iOS 6 doesn't have this problem and finds proper icons with and without ~ipad suffix.

Use icon name (AppIcon or Icon or anything else) as you set in your asset catalog.