Consume for iPhone 4

We’ve been working very hard on the next update to Consume for iPhone, which adds support for the iPhone 4’s Retina display.

We haven’t just updated the images to take advantage of the Retina display’s extra pixels, we’ve reworked how things are done to minimise how many images we need in the app, added service icons, added country icons and improved a lot of small design details, too.

The final result: 433 images.

That’s 217 non-retina and 216 retina images. It’s an odd number because one image didn’t benefit at all from being scaled up, and every byte counts, right? It’s been a huge job, but we’ve learned a lot that will help in the future. We’re still committed to creating interesting, custom and unique app designs—which means a lot of work and even more images. Please don’t hate us if it takes a little longer for our apps to be Retina-ready.

Some full sized preview images: Settings, Telstra Prepaid, Vodafone Postpaid.