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No Olympic app for iPad
satman17
30-07-2012
Am I right in saying there is no Olympic games BBC app for the iPad? I can get the phone app!
thedrewser
30-07-2012
Yes, but it's fine. I was watching live coverage using the phone app on my Pad yesterday and it's fine, no issues. Obviously you have to press the size up button but the video playing is as normal.

One hint though, unless watching video use it in portrait otherwise all the menu icons at the bottom disappear.
paulbrock
31-07-2012
I don't get the fascination with having ipad specific versions of apps. The android BBC olympic app takes advantage of the extra space on a big screen just fine....not like it has massive buttons intended for phone use only.
lettice
01-08-2012
To be honest the bbc sport pages are good on the ipad, so no need for the specific app.

But if you have a JB ipad, use a tweak like fullforce, which enables full screen mode for iPhone apps, this works great with the bbc olympics app on the ipad
susie-4964
05-08-2012
The iPhone BBC Olympic app works fine on my iPad. Just double up the size.
paulbrock
05-08-2012
Originally Posted by lettice:
“But if you have a JB ipad, use a tweak like fullforce, which enables full screen mode for iPhone apps, this works great with the bbc olympics app on the ipad”

is the default behaviour not to scale them up?
alanwarwic
05-08-2012
Originally Posted by paulbrock:
“I don't get the fascination with having ipad specific versions of apps.”

Why scale properly for the device when you an sell specific apps?

Bad programming springs to mind but it is more so the attraction of double selling.
paulbrock
05-08-2012
Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“Why scale properly for the device when you an sell specific apps?

Bad programming springs to mind but it is more so the attraction of double selling.”

from the developer point of view, sure. But there does seem to be a clamour for specific ipad/tablet versions from the consumer as well, and not just on here.
alan1302
05-08-2012
Originally Posted by paulbrock:
“from the developer point of view, sure. But there does seem to be a clamour for specific ipad/tablet versions from the consumer as well, and not just on here.”

You get this on Android apps as well - I have a 7" tablet and some of the software is designed for a much smaller phone screen so when it gets scaled up it does not look as good as it could do so would prefer either a choice of phone and tablet versions or the phone version scaling well to a bigger screen.
paulbrock
05-08-2012
Originally Posted by alan1302:
“You get this on Android apps as well - I have a 7" tablet and some of the software is designed for a much smaller phone screen so when it gets scaled up it does not look as good as it could do so would prefer either a choice of phone and tablet versions or the phone version scaling well to a bigger screen.”

There's only the occasional very low res game that has looked bad that I've found so far. Everything else seems to have been designed for a resolution similar to the nexus 7 and scales just fine.
alan1302
06-08-2012
Originally Posted by paulbrock:
“There's only the occasional very low res game that has looked bad that I've found so far. Everything else seems to have been designed for a resolution similar to the nexus 7 and scales just fine.”

I've found quite a few - not enough to be a major problem but enough to be annoying! LOL
alanwarwic
07-08-2012
Originally Posted by paulbrock:
“from the developer point of view, sure. But there does seem to be a clamour for specific i..versions from the consumer as well.”

All mainly playground clamour I'm sure.

On IOS the reason is to help get one app sale per owned device. This is quite important when they average something like £1.99.
paulbrock
07-08-2012
well if the rumours are true the iphone 5 will have a different aspect ratio, throwing a spanner in the works....or maybe people will pay again for a iphone 5 version
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