Open Radar

 
26-Nov-2012 03:55 PM Daniel Weeks:
Summary:
When in a view controller and loading a UIStoryboard from code the developer calls the UIStoryboard +storyboardWithName:bundle method passing in a file that is in a specific bundle (or nil for the default bundle). When on an iPad a different storyboard needs to be called than when on an iPhone or iPod touch. There is no way to have two files named with only a device specifier to differentiate them like UIImage has.

When loading a UIImage with +imageNamed: there can be two files: image~ipad.png and image~iphone.png. On an iPad +imageNamed: will rerturn image~ipad.png and on and iPhone image~iphone.png. This convenience is great for supporting Universal apps.

Steps to Reproduce:
Load a storyboard in code. The string specified in the +storyboardWithName:bundle: is the filename without the ".storyboard" extension.

Expected Results:
Files name MyStoryboard~ipad.storyboard and MyStoryboard~iphone.storyboard would be loaded correctly on the appropriate devices.

Actual Results:
The developer has to explicitly specify the name of the file, including the device specifier. For example rather than calling:

[UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MyStoryboard" bundle:nil];

to get a device appropriate storyboard file if it exists the call must be:

[UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MyStoryboard~ipad" bundle:nil];

This is less than convenient for maintaining clean code in a Universal application.

Regression:
no regressions

Notes: