Two quick questions about Retina

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I have a few quick questions about Retina graphcis:

1- How important is it to support non-retina devices? My app relies on small text that would appear very blurry on a non retina device. Plus making the images again would be a pain. My app will be free so it’s not like people will pay and not be able to play

2- Is there a way to tell if a device is retina or not? I think I could make a work around but I’d need to be able to tell if it was a retina screen.

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#2

  1. The primary risk of not supporting pre-retina devices is bad reviews which can tank your visibility in the store. If your app is free…maybe you don’t care about that so much. (Far more likely to get a bad review based on the app performance of the older platform, I’d think)

  2. You’d have to do some kind of specific platform detection on startup, like find out the stagewidth. [import]uid: 41884 topic_id: 29128 reply_id: 117185[/import]