I've seen there is a library called InAppSettingsKit - http://www.inappsettingskit.com/ - which lets your in-app settings mimic your settings within the Settings app.
But is there a way to get this to NOT use the Settings app as well? So it just allows you to change settings within the app. Or is there another library which does this?
InAppSettingKit lets you use a local bundle for the in-app part (see documentation) Try only including this and not including the Settings.bundle
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I have been reading and exploring around adding settings for custom apps in the iPhone settings page.
And there is a question that is arising in my mind that, can we point an XIB / UIStoryboard-viewController which is designed by us into the root.plist.
This can help in displaying custom design and handling things differently as required.
For example, if custom app uses the passcode protection then we will need to save the passcode into the keychain and that will require additional logic to be written.
Cheers,
Kunjal
You cannot use custom UIViewControllers in the iOS settings page for your app. When using the Settings.bundle the preferences are stored in NSUserDefaults which does not integrate with the keychain. So you will need to include the settings view for the passcode in the app itself.
I am an iOS development newbie. I am implementing some sample code, but try as I might I do not see my NSUserDefault settings on the settings page. What needs to be done for that? Also, where do you specify the UI for the settings page?
You need to define your settings bundle, see http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/Preferences/Preferences.html
Just wondering if it's possible to add a button like the "Clear History", "Clear Cookies" etc buttons in the Safari preferences to your own app's settings bundle? Been digging through the dev docs and can't find any plist specifier for a button, so I'm wondering if this is an internal API for the Apple guys?
After you hit the button, you get an action sheet asking you whether you really want to do it, and then presumably there is some callback based on the user's input.
Also noticed that the Nike + iPod settings have a clear button in them, but again, that app might have access to internal APIs that we don't.
No, this is not possible. The system only supports interacting with the values from within your app. You can't run code from the settings app so a button would be useless.
Nike+iPod is a root application. Anything running under root can run code from basically anywhere (with restrictions, Sandbox is a b**ch) If you're interested you can make a jailbreak preferencebundle with Theos or iOSOpenDev! Which allows you to make a root bundle that can run button action code.
iOSOpenDev, which extends Xcode for iOS jailbreak-style project development, provides project templates that have a check boxes to include either a simple PreferenceLoader (plist-based) or a full PreferenceLoader bundle.
I have created an iOS 4.0 app with a Settings bundle. I am using the InAppSettingsKit (http://www.inappsettingskit.com) which presents the settings in the app. This allows the user to modify those settings directly from within the app, without the need to go to the external iPhone Settings.app. As the settings are accessible from inside the app (and I am doing some custom styling to the in-app settings screen) I would like to stop the Settings bundle from appearing in the iPhone Settings.app. Is this possible?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
InAppSettingKit allows the use of an internal only settings bundle. Rename Settings.bundle to be this and then the OS wont find it to put it in the Main Settings part
Check out "Some little extras" on the product page
The iphone supports a means of defining your application's settings such that it will automatically create a UI in the Settings app. I want to also allow the user to edit the application settings within the application but it'd be nice to reuse the same UI that is automatically created.
See: Application Settings
Is there a way to have your application display the settings using the same UI that the Settings application does?
No there is not a way to reuse the UI.
There is, however, a way to reuse the data. Settings.app will put the settings in NSUserDefaults under the keys specified in your Settings.bundle plist file. You can alter those values in your app, then switch to Settings.app and see that it will have changed to reflect your new values. This is really nice if you want to allow the user to edit settings in the app (if that's what they're used to) or in Settings.app (if that's what they're used to).
EDIT #1
You may want to look at this thread. There is a library called mySettings that would make building this easier.
EDIT #2
There are a couple libraries available now that do this:
InAppSettings
InAppSettingsKit