Adding iOS 8 app icons

- As you've no doubt seen when we test our applications,…they add themselves to the home screen of the simulator…with this generic, white icon with rounded corners.…You'll need to provide your own icon…before you can publish an app to the App Store,…and probably you'll want one before that,…just to have your own icon.…So let's see how to do this.…An iOS 8 application for the iPhone…needs at least two icon files,…though usually you will end up adding more.…Those icon files used to require special names.…Now they don't, although they are required…to be of a particular size.…

Now in an Xcode iOS application,…there is a suggested place for them.…It will give you the asset catalog here,…that comes standard with one entry for the app icon.…And this can help us actually remember…what size is required for these.…So I created a single-view application,…just for the iPhone,…so it's recommending me here,…that I need to provide application icons…for an iPhone at 2x and 3x.…Those are both based on this point size here.…2x would be doubling it,…