How to develop or migrate apps for iPhone 5 screen resolution?

Question

The new iPhone 5 display has a new aspect ratio and a new resolution (640 x 1136 pixels).

What is required to develop new or transition already existing applications

Answer 1

To determine if your app can support iPhone 5 Retina use this: (This could be more robust to return the type of display, 4S Retina, etc., but as it is written below, it just returns if the iPhone supports iOS5 Retina as a YES or NO)

In a common ".h" file add:

BOOL IS_IPHONE5_RETINA(void);

In a common ".m" file add:

BOOL IS_IPHONE5_RETINA(void) {
    BOOL isiPhone5Retina = NO;
    if(UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone) {
        if ([UIScreen mainScreen].scale == 2.0f) {
            CGSize result = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size;
            CGFloat scale = [UIScreen mainScreen].scale;
            result = CGSizeMake(result.width * scale, result.height * scale);

            if(result.height == 960){
                //NSLog(@"iPhone 4, 4s Retina Resolution");
            }
            if(result.height == 1136){
                //NSLog(@"iPhone 5 Resolution");
                isiPhone5Retina = YES;
            }
        } else {
            //NSLog(@"iPhone Standard Resolution");
        }
    }
    return isiPhone5Retina;
}