Hardware Reference
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Apps made exclusively for the iPad:
This is the newest kind, so you find fewer of these than
the other two types. These apps won't runonan iPhone oriPod touch, soyoucan't even install
them on either device.
Apps made to work properly on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch:
Theseso-calledUniversal
apps can run on any of the three device types at full resolution. What is the full-screen res-
olution for each device? Glad you asked. For older iPhones and iPod touches, it's 960 x 640
pixels; for the iPhone 5 or later, it's 1136 x 640; for the iPad 2 and the original iPad mini,
it's 1024 x 768 pixels; and the Retina display in the later iPad and the newest iPad mini is a
whopping 2048 x 1536 pixels.
Apps made for the iPhone and iPod touch:
These apps run on your iPad but only at iPhone/
iPod touch resolution (960 x 640) rather than the full resolution of your iPad mini (1024 x
768) or iPad mini with Retina display (2048 x 1536).
You can double the size of an iPhone/iPod touch app by tapping the little 2x
button in the lower-right corner of the screen; to return it to its native size, tap the 1x button.
Figure
11-1
shows you what this looks like.
Frankly, most iPhone/iPod apps look pretty good at 2x size, but we've seen a few that have
jagged graphics and don't look as nice. Still, with 850,000 or more to choose from, we're sure
that you can find a few that make you happy.
You can get apps for your iPad mini in two ways:
On your computer
On your iPad mini
To use the App Store on your iPad mini, it must be connected to the Internet. Also, if you obtain an
app on your computer, it isn't available on your iPad mini until you either sync the iPad mini with
your computer or download the app from iCloud from the Purchased tab, covered later in this
chapter. See Chapter
3
for details about syncing.
After you've obtained an app from the App Store on your computer or iPad mini, you
can download it from iCloud to up to ten iOS devices.
