Is there a way to create buttons similar to the glossy icon-buttons on the home screen on the iphone but in your own app? The only thing i've found to create image button is to create rounded rect-buttons and set the image or background property on it, but that does not automatically create the glossy surface and rounding.
You'll need to use images. Apple doesn't make the glossy UIGlassButton class public.
If you're after buttons the same size as on the home screen, on black background, you could just set the image as your Icon.png, install the app in the simulator, take a screenshot of the home screen with the generated glossy icon, cut the icon out, and repeat the whole process with the rest of your icons.
Maybe simpler, if you don't have Icon.png set in your app, you'll get the white button on the home screen. Take a screenshot of that, and use it in a layer in Photoshop or similar to lighten up the underlying layer with your icon.
If you need buttons with other sizes, have a look at this blog entry on Cocoa with Love. Those buttons don't look exactly like the ones on the home screen, but you might be happy with that look, or modify the code to your taste.
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is there a way in flutter to create an app that simply puts a semi-transparent screen on top of all the other apps etc on the phone? I would like to color the transparent screen and the user should be able to still click on the apps etc. underneath that screen.
I am mostly struggling to find a way to make my screen "penetrable"
I am trying to upload app to app store.
I have rectangle shaped app icon with 1024*1024 pixels. I have to upload a round shaped app icon in itunes connect.
Does iTunes connect converts the rectangle shaped icon to round shaped automatically? Or do i have to do the necessary changes?
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According to this Document Provided By Apple
Icons with visible backgrounds look best on the Home screen primarily because of the rounded corners iOS adds. This is because uniformly rounded corners ensure that all the icons on a user's Home screen have a consistent appearance that invites tapping.If you create an icon with a background that disappears when it's viewed on the Home screen, users don't see the rounded corners. Such icons often don't look tappable and tend to interfere with the orderly symmetry of the Home screen that users appreciate.
All necessary rounding of the edges, gloss effects and etc will be automatically applied by Apple where necessary. This applies to all app icons. Bunty Madan has posted in their comment the link to Apple's details on the topic - http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/IconsImages/IconsImages.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH14-SW2
I have a 57x57 png icon image which I use as my app's main icon. How do I programatically use the iOS's rendering system to produce a glossy effect in the same way the icon is rendered in the home screen? I would preferbably like to use a Uimage passing it with the raw image.
There doesn't seem to be a class called UIPrerenderedIcon to accomplish this, although there is a property in that settings?
It's kind of a weird hack, but why not just go to your home screen on the simulator, take a screen shot, and cut it out from there via PhotoShop, InkScape, or something similar? It might be the quickest way to accomplish this.
I should probably be asking this on some art website, but in my iPhone app I am trying to make a center button on my tab like the one Daily booth has, but mine is coming out fuzzy. Does anyone know how to make then clean and crisp? I used illustrator to create and save the icon as a png.
Try setting the image size to 30x30 and remember to only use black and transparency. You can make this bigger for the retina display.
Also, are you saving the image as grayscale?
If you're struggling to make them yourself, why not try glyphish.com?
I really like Paint.NET on Windows for image editing, mostly because it is free.
I noticed somebody had created an Effect for Paint.NET to create tab bar icons. I haven't tried it myself, so can't vouch for it in any way:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Plugins/iPhone-TabbarIcon-Maker-Alpha-from-RGB-Intensity.shtml
I have successfully placed an image into the lefthand ImageView of a default UITableViewCell and this shows up as a white image over the background blue of a selected row. However the image is invisible when the table cell background is white.
The image came from a 3rd party iPhone tabbar icon set, hence it is white. Can I programatically flip the image to black? Or is there an Apple Mac icon editing utility that will allow me to apply this change?
(I know some will be tempted to cast this question out to another end-user stackoverflow site but before you do consider that there are 100's or 1000's iPhone tabbar icons on the net and a few developers would probably be interested in adding these to their iPhone App UI outside of a UITabBar.)
Opacity is one of the best icon editing utilities. It has preview modes for how the icon will look on the iPhone, in the App Store, as well as on the web.
Also, Acorn is popular and easy to use.