I wonder if it's possible to create a GUI for the iPhone home screen when an app is used?
Since I guess the answer is no (it was in the past, havn't found anything new about iOS 7): if I have an audio player, would it be possible to kind of 'route' it to the homescreen like the Podcasts app does it? I have looked for answers but only came across jailbroken solutions so far.
Is there anything one can do there? Thanks in advance.
No, the latest SDK (iOS 7.0) does not allow this, as in add custom GUI element to the lock screen. You can let the media player controls interact with your app if you are playing audio in the background.
And use the MPNowPlayingInfoCenter to display track, artist name and cover art on the lockscreen.
Apple doesn't allow any app to configure the Lock Screen in any way. You could have a music app which might display track details using the : MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.
Other than that all you can display is Notifications.
This isn't available on any version of iOS.
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Am working in iPhone device camera based iOS application. I have one requirement to record video from our application even the device screen is off or in locked. I don't have iPhone, iPod and iPad. And also i don't know it is possible to record video in these conditions. Cound you please give me any idea on this? Looking forward your help. Thanks in advance.
No this is not possible. There's no other way to achieve this.
In some countries it's against the law to even take picture without sound effect, such as Japan for example. No wonder Apple don't allow to shoot pictures from locked screen.
There are many question on site like
Programatically changing the iOS lock-screen ,
How to set lock screen , wallpaper and Ringtone programmatically in iPhone?
All say that apple will reject if we modify the lock-Screen image.
But I seen it in many apps.
Example Saavn is in AppStore.
In this if a song is playing and device is locked,
It shows the image of the current album on the lock screen.
Please share if anybody know how it can be done.
Thanks.
Music apps can change the lock screen wallpaper because iOS automatically displays the album artwork for the song/podcast/etc that's playing (see MPMusicPlayerController docs). As far as I know, it's not an API that's publicly available to developers.
The "podcaster" app (3rd party not apple) displays an image of the currently playing podcast. Podcast images are stored in the RSS feed and not in each mp3 so the app is dynamically telling the os which image goes with with mp3. Of course you can play "silence" out of the speaker but I don't think this is a clean solution
How can i place my application icon on the lock screen of the iphone programmatically(something like the default camera button next to slide lock). Is it possible ? If so can any one guide me on this ??
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Hi all.. thanks for replies.. after seeing your replies i understand that this is not possible and its possible in jailbroken devices.. or is it possible to invoke my application through some gesture on lock screen ???
I dont think it is possible. I understand you want to implement something like android interface, but apple has its UI standards and has restricted access to that.
For Jail broken Device:
I'm not sure whether it work or not.
Please check these links:
You Tube 1
You Tube 2
Note : Possibly it is for Jailbroken devices. Also I didn't checked these video's because it's restricted in our company :(
This is not possible as Apple does not allow that.
I want to make a screen recorder with iphone.
Is it possible to do that?
If yes how can i implement a screen recorder with xcode, anybody can help me.
I know how to implement(i mean the logic),that is add pictures to a video file in a regular interval.but how can i do this with iphone sdk
Help me...
Assuming you mean a standard iPhone which is not jailbroken:
No, you can't. You could write an app that captured images of its own display when running, but you can't capture the screen in general (e.g. the home screen, or other apps' screens). It's not the sort of software Apple would allow, even if you found a way to hack around it (which I imagine wouldn't be possible).
What about this? It seems to indicate that video screen capture and saving (using the UIGetScreenImage function) is now allowed by Apple.
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/12/15/apple-relents-and-is-now-allowing-uigetscreenimage-for-app-st/
the app I'm working on supports iOS multi-task feature by default, and I want to stick with this.
Upon app launch, a splash movie clip is played (code is in AppDelegate), after user hits the home button, and re-launches the app, I want to the same splash movie be played before showing the last view where use was.
I know by switching off the multi-task support, I can achieve this, but in the meanwhile, I'm losing the multi-task support feature, and I need to write code to save/resume user states. So, is there any workaround for this? thanks!
You could try the app delegate's applicationDidBecomeActive: method but quite frankly I'd consider this to be user hostile behaviour. Who wants to see a movie every time they switch between apps? The point of multitasking on the iPhone is to quickly change between apps and this violates that.