I was searching for inspiration to make a clean UI design and I found one.
Now I'm trying to use the design to practice, but I can't figure out how the developers made the status bar and toolbar seamless.
This is what I'm trying to do; (Make the status bar and toolbar seamless)
I tried making the statusbar transparent but that gives it a different functionality.
I'd be grateful if you could any information on how to achieve this, Thanks a lot in Advance.
I'm following this guide to create some animations to my app and thought about writing a very light not distracting animation to my tab bar. I've searched apple guidelines but didn't saw anything against it, yet, I don't think I've ever seen an app doing something similar. Is that because it's not allowed or is there another reason I'm missing?
Any one knows an app that does something similar?
I'm using a simple slide in/out effect for the tab bar in my App.
No problems in the review.
The code I'm using is at https://stackoverflow.com/a/5272497/725594
I thought that it was not allowed to customize the taskbar on the iPhone. However, I noticed this app called iHandy Tip Calculator which replaces the battery icon with a fast switch icon, that pops up a view as shown. How is this allowed, and if so how can I be doing something different?
If you run the app on an iPad, you'll see, how they do it: they are overlaying the normal status bar. Also note, that the screenshots in the app store don't show this feature. I assume, they were fearing to get rejected and disabled the overlay for the screenshots.
Apps from this developer iHandy incorporate this into the status bar, but I've never seen another company do this. I am surprised that the status bar is able to be modified in this way in any event.
My question on apple.stackexchange is posted over here:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/71969/what-is-the-meaning-of-this-status-bar-icon
It is possible to create your own statusbar and "simulate" the network status and battery life etc in a 'full-screen' app. But apple doesn't allow it, but this might be one that 'slipped through' just like Gaz_Edge said.
You are correct. You are not suppose to be able to modify the 'springboard'. Apple normally refuse apps that do anything that modifies it. Maybe this one slipped through the net?
I just downloaded the latest version of iHandy Level (version 1.62.0) on an iPhone 5 running iOS 6 but don't see the icon (it's within the app rather than in the status bar). (And the status bar is hidden.)
I was curious to see if they actually hid the status bar and created their own custom status bar. If that was the case, you'd be able to tell because when you swipe down from the top for notification center, it would first show a little tab and then you'd have to swipe again to pull down the menu.
Guessing maybe they removed this functionality at Apple's request.
If anyone still has a version that shows it, please let us know if it shows the tab when you swipe for notification center. If not, they likely found some private api to allow them to replace the battery icon (which would be interesting).
Before I start I should say I know this seems like a long shot, however I figured it was worth a try.
One app I am working on right now is a Mac Statusbar App. It has a NSStatusItem in the menubar and when clicked it will display a custom window with a popover appearance (like on iPad or like Fantastical has on the mac.) Anyway I started testing this by inserting a single nsmenu item in the status items menu. The view has set clear color for the background color on its window. However this still doesn't quite work as you can see in the pic below
There is still a small white thin line above and below the item
The clear area isn't clear, its like it has a blur filter on it
Other than that, it works fantastically great. I just didn't know if anybody else has ever attempted anything like this before and figured out how to overcome these 2 issues which seem to be the only thing preventing this from working.
If there is no way to do this I may have to resort to using a custom view for the NSStatusItem so I can get the coordinates on screen to position my own window below the NSStatusItem.
A fake window seems like a rather weird approach to this. Why not just pop up a regular window? I suggest MAAttachedWindow: http://mattgemmell.com/2007/10/03/maattachedwindow-nswindow-subclass
I read about this problem for the iPhone on the post here.
The post says it's only a simulator problem. Right now I've got the same problem on my iPad app, on the device itself. The app has a status bar - but after hiding it in app i can't click/touch in that area (using iOS version 4.2).
Thanks in advance.
If you're desperate enough, you could have your own window on top of the (invisible) status bar and process events in there. Set its windowLevel high enough and you're good to go. However, that might not be a good solution for you, because there's no way to forward touches from one window to another. You might end up having to do a lot of touch handling yourself.