Adapting content to the iPad screen
Mobile devices are different from desktop PCs; while you can open any report or document in an iPad, the best option is to design specific documents for small screens only. You will be able to leverage capabilities like swipe, tap-and-hold, rotate screen, and so on.
So, back to the drawing board, let's do some basic math. First and second generation iPads have a screen size of 1024 x 768 pixels, while third generation have 2048 x 1536. I will use the former for the recipes, and we need to account for the status bar (20 pixels), title bar (44 pixels), and the optional page-by bar (41 pixels). That leaves us, in landscape mode, roughly 1024 x 660 of usable space.
When the user rotates the device by 90 degrees, of course, the numbers change. MicroStrategy makes our life a lot easier when dealing with screen rotation, thanks to one of the best and most useful features: the views. We will explore them later.
Getting ready
The first thing we should do when developing...
