I have developed a project that has a single view. Now I want the view to be transparant so that I can see the iPhone menu. Is this possible and if so, how?
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No, you can't see the springboard in your apps.
It is NOT possible to do that. You can't make the whole app transparent so that you see the springboard icons.
Of course, you could set a homescreen screenshot as background image in your app. But, as already said, it's not possible to do that what you want.
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I'm trying to build an application that is launched has a transparent background, in practice, showing only the objects in view (buttons, labels etc etc) but not the background so you can see the background the user's home.
In the example file you can see the purple square image at the center of the screen, in theory should be a normal UIView with a picture in the center but does not see the background of UIWindow/UIView.
Is possible to realize such a thing? Can anyone help me?
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No. It's not possible using the official SDK. I'm interested to know why you would want to do this?
It might be possible, try setting the window background color to clear, as well as the view controller's view background color.
I say it might be possible because I've seen my home screen while using some apps, for example, the Facebook app sometimes shows it during a transition (it might be a bug on either Facebook or the OS).
Anyway, I'm pretty sure that kind of app would be rejected from the App Store, so be advised.
Is it possible to handle the animation of moving icons in an iPhone application? If so, how?
As far as I know, you cannot. The icon motion animation is generated by iOS based on the still icon, and you have no control of it.
I think without .gif image you can not make animated icon and ios will not support that so you have no control on it.
I was wondering where does one get access to iOS delete button. This is the button that Apple uses to close the iAd window, and for deleting iPhone apps from the home screen, and also the Twitter App uses it to delete the photo that you add to a tweet. Do they just download this image somewhere or is there an option for it somewhere like for the info button, and the detail disclosure.
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I also found that Growl uses this icon along with Lion's Mission Control...
You can use UIKit Artwork Extractor to extract about any iOS artwork that is not public. Just search for close and you will find several close button png images.
Apple doesn't make that image available, unfortunately.
This iPad template has the icon you want, though, in a PSD: http://www.teehanlax.com/downloads/ipad-gui-psd/
If it's actually an image and the iOS Simulator displays it, it should be hidden somewhere inside the Simulator frameworks or support files.
What, you mean the circle with an X in it? It's pretty easy to make your own, either in an image editor or just drawing it in code. I can guarantee you that's what the Twitter app did.
Is it possible for an app to access Springboard icons? I want to build a small animation where a ball is jumping over the icons over other apps.
Here's an example what I want to achieve.
Possible?
No, this isn't possible on iOS with the official SDK.
Move to Android? No, i dont think iOS can w/o jailbreak.
Begs question - ios5? Whats gonna happen there? Maybe we will get widget framework, hopefully at a minimum something for the lock screen.
If you just wanted the effect you could have the user take a screenshot of their homescreen and use that in the animation, but thats the only way you could do that in the official SDK.
can we make iOS4 style folders in our iphone app? actually i want that there is a icon on my screen and when clicked on that icon the 4 other icons inside that icon will show like iOS4 style.i.e. the main icon treats like a folder in iOS4. is it possible???
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Yes, anything is possible. There is no API for this, so you will have to design the component and its functionality yourself.