How to make xib compatible with both iphone 5 and iphone 4 devices

Question

I am trying to layout my xib so that layout fits in both iphone 5 (4 inches retina) and 3.5 devices.

Because I have to support IOS-5 I cannot use autolayout. I have

Answer 1

• In your storyboard, click 'Show file inspector'.
• Under Interface builder document->Document versioning, select Deployment=iOS 5 (or your choice).

If this doesn't work, you need to work with each of your views. Select them. Under Attributes inspector for each of them, under View section, see Mode attribute. Set this to 'Redraw'.

If even that doesn't give satisfactory result, set the view size to the smallest of all the version you are going to use. And set the Mode attribute = 'Scale to fill'.

Programmatically, Mode attribute is view.contentmode property.