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Bug 1904

Summary: SDL does not support native resolution of the iPhone 5
Product: SDL Reporter: Wouter van Oortmerssen <aardappel>
Component: videoAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: iPhone/iPod touch   
OS: iOS 6   

Description Wouter van Oortmerssen 2013-06-07 16:07:19 UTC 
When I iterate through the display modes with SDL_GetDisplayMode, I get these options when running on the iPhone 5 hardware:

mode: 960 640
mode: 640 960
mode: 480 320
mode: 320 480

Even if I stubbornly pass the correct resolution of (1136, 640) to SDL_CreateWindow, SDL denies me that, and gives me 960 640 instead. The game appears letterboxed.
Comment 1 Wouter van Oortmerssen 2013-06-10 17:01:55 UTC 
apparently, the modes that availableModes will return depends on... whether you have specified a iphone-5 sized launch image (!)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12395200/how-to-develop-or-migrate-apps-for-iphone-5-screen-resolution

Wow Apple, that is some impressively messy / unintuitive design.

So I guess this too is not a bug. Hopefully useful to someone else who wonders why they're not getting the correct resolution.