Last modified: 2014-11-19 01:03:00 UTC
I'm running the Wikipedia app in iOS6 and the icons look unfamiliar and inconstant with all my other apps. In particular, I had never seen the share button used in the Wikipedia app before and assumed it was an upload button. (The standard share button in iOS 6 is quite different.) Are there not icon assets available from iOS itself?
We could use the standard icon for share but then it wouldn't fit with the rest of the toolbar. What do Apple's standalone app-store apps do on iOS 6 in their latest versions? Or have they left the old iOS 6 versions intact and only updated on 7+?
Apple just left the old iOS 6 versions intact and you have to upgrade to iOS7 to install any of the latest versions. So I guess that doesn't help my argument :) I guess it's a tradeoff between being consistent with whatever iOS is installed and being consistent with other app icons that aren't built into iOS. Not sure what the best solution is.
Yeah the share icon is the one used in iOS 7 and above - see Safari for an example.
More info from Apple: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/Iconography.html https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/BarIcons.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH21-SW1 https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/Bars.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH12-SW33 https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/Bars.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH12-SW34
