iPad

IPad Project Templates

In addition to the existing iPhone and iPod Touch project templates, new project templates have been created for both iPad applications and universal applications.      With these templates you can create either iPad-only applications or universal applications.

If you have an existing iPhone application, upgrading it to run on the iPad is very simple, you need to:

• Set the minimum required OS version to 3.2 (see below)
• Set the kind of application that you are building (see below)
• Follow the Apple recommended guidelines for the iPad to target the iPad.
• Select the resolutions you want to support

Configuring Your Application

In the "iPhone Build" settings pane in the project properties you need to make sure that you have selected the "Minimum OS Version" to be 3.2.   iOS 3.2 is the first version that supported the iPad.

In the "iPhone Application" settings pane in the project properties you can configure the kind of application that you want to build, the options are:

• iPhone only
• iPad only
• iPhone and iPad (universal applications)

This is how you configure the UI based on the above setting:

You also need to pick the orientations that your application will support.   You do this in the iPhone application section in your project properties by setting the proper value in "Orientation".

Testing your application

You can use the new iPhone Simulator Target option in the Project menu to pick which version of the iPhoneOS SDK to start up with and which simulator will be used (iPhone simulator or iPad simulator).  Changing this setting will change both the runtime and simulator used by the Run and Debug commands.

Additionally, if you just want to quickly launch your application with a different SDK or simulator, you can use the new Run With option from the Run menu.

Interface Builder and MonoDevelop.

When you add new Interface Builder elements to iPad projects, with the exception of the MainWindow added in the project template, they still default to their iPhone counterparts.  To change this, double clicking the XIB file in the Solution Pad after adding it and performing the following actions:

1. Click File->Transition To->iPad
2. Close the old iPhone style XIB
3. File->Save As and overwrite the old XIB with the transitioned one

Downgrading

If you want to downgrade MonoTouch to the old APIs, you should re-install the monotouch.pkg package that you got originally.

Testing in iPad iPhone Mode

If you would like to test your existing projects in the iPad iPhone mode.  Simply change the Target SDK version to 3.2 in the appropriate project configuration.

You can check the UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds.  The new iPad runs at 1024x768 whereas the iPhone runs at 480x320