Is there an official name for this icon ?
In some watch apps, such as Slack, this prompt will show when the watch disconnects from the phone. I'm trying to implement this in my own watch app, but cannot find the name for this feature.
The status icons aren't publicly available for use in watchOS. I don't believe anyone has even written a watchOS simulator icon extractor, to determine what the system name is for that particular icon.
For now, you'd need to create your own (resized) version of that icon, and add your art to your asset catalog.
You could also submit a feature request to Apple asking them to make the system icons available to developers.
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I'm working on a iOS App which interacts with different hardware. We access and configure these devices using a "Soft AP" work flow (ie hotspot)
Our preference is to use NEHotspotConfigurationManager to automate the process for the user and in most cases this works fine.
However, in those edge cases where it doesn't (ie iOS 13+ and location services) we'd like to make the workflow as simple for the user as possible.
Currently we have a nice list of steps that the user needs to take:
Press/swipe home
Open Settings
Navigate to WiFi settings
Find and tap the specified WiFi SSID
Return to the App
It's really not pleasant at all.
I'm aware that there is not official way to open the WiFi settings and I can live with that, but recently I was mucking around with the Wyze App and pairing one of their light bulbs and noted that they have manual workflow which opens the top level Settings page - NOT the App's settings. (nb: The Wyze App also has "app settings")
So, after some more reading, I find that UIApplication.openSettingsURLString will open the App's specific settings page, which is cool and everything, but this is not what I need. I'd be really awesome if it was "officially" possible to launch the iOS Settings App and NOT have it open the App's settings, but just land on the top level page.
I know if the App has no settings, this is the behaviour I will get, but our App does (and I can't be changed)
I don't want to/can't use URL schemes like prefs:root unless it can be guaranteed not to be rejected by Apple!
And, yes, I look at a lot of different blogs and questions on the subject, including A Comprehensive Guide to All 120+ Settings URLs Supported by iOS and iPadOS 13.1 - but I'd like to not have the App rejected
I know we could change the app icon of the application in iOS 10.3 above and I achieved this successfully, but my question is that could we achieve this using a custom url.
Suppose that the app icon is stored in the backend server and the icon while changed according to the user login in the system. Is it possible?
This is not possible. Any alternate icons must be predefined the the app's info.plist file and are subject to app review.
Check out the documentation here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplication/2806818-setalternateiconname
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines discusses some of the limitations of custom app icons: https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/icons-and-images/app-icon/
I'm fairly new to iOS development and I am porting an Android app to iOS 7. The Android app provides a screen that allows the user to change a number of non persistent settings. Because these are not saved, it doesn't seem appropriate to me to expose them, on iOS, as preferences via a settings bundle and the built-in Settings app. So I'm looking at an in-app settings screen, which I understand is allowed - but perhaps not encouraged - by Apple.
Some questions:
Am I correct that an in-App approach is allowed by Apple? Most example code seems to use settings bundles. Am I going to have problems when the app is submitted to the App Store?
I can put the settings UI in a simple UITableViewController, but is there an approved way to expose this to the user? XCode 5 doesn't provide a settings identifier (and icon) for toolbar buttons, and the "Info" identifier (letter i inside a circle) seems to have been dropped too. Should I use a custom icon? Are there any de facto standards?
I haven't seen this kind of UI element before on iOS but my exposure to the platform as a user is limited.
There is nothing wrong with doing an in-app preference (table)view. You won't be rejected for that (this point seems to be way too much exagerated outside the iOS community). There are guidelines that you can follow: iOS Human Interface Guidelines... or not. As long as you don't use private APIs (assuming you know how to access them anyway), you're fine! So you can use a custom icon, the "i" button, or any UI element that convey the reasonable meaning of providing access to more info/preference.
In your code, you can use the class NSUserDefaults (with the standardUserDefaults) to store your preferences.
Many apps have in-app settings. It's fine. Apple even states that it is fine. Just don't have both.
Use a custom icon. Many apps seem to use an icon that looks like a gear.
How can i get a list of all my iphone apps (even pointers for each app will be helpful)?
I'm developing an app which contain some screen that should have a list of all my installed apps (with their icon) and the option to select one to launch it in the future depends in other function of mine.
Thanks alot!
There's no way to accomplish this, because each app is sandboxed.
You would be able to determine if select apps are installed if they have custom URL schemes. For example, the Facebook app can be launched with the custom url scheme "fb://", but these aren't guaranteed to be unique, so a different app could use a scheme that's well known to belong to another app. Also not all apps have a custom URL scheme, and you would need some master list (that would need to be constantly updated to be accurate) to check for the presence of each. So you could maybe detect a select list of well-known apps with custom URL schemes, but never get a list of all of them.
If you just wanted to detect your own apps, you could have custom URL schemes that are almost certainly going to be unique set for each app, and check for those.
You could also jailbreak your device, but I'm assuming you want this functionality in an app that is distributed on the app store, so you wouldn't be able to add functionality that requires a jailbreak to work.
EDIT:
Here's an example showing detection of the Facebook app being installed:
if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"fb://"]])
{
// Handle the Facebook app being installed
}
Note however, this won't give you any information about the app. Any app developer could add the "fb://" custom url scheme to their app, which would make this falsely detect it.
If you want to find lists of custom url schemes for iOS apps, just search in Google.
another way to look at this is to present the user with all of your app in the appstore. If they have any apps installed on their device then in iOS 7 they will see a button called "Open" next to each of them.
For example you can have a UITableViewCell or a UIButton that says "Checkout Our Apps". In the code you would add this.
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"itms://itunes.com/apps/sixaxisllc"]];
Replace SixAxis LLC with your iTunes developer name and when users click on it, it will launch AppStore app with only your apps are shown. (With Open or price amount next to each of them)
NOTE: test this on actual device and not in simulator
Because of the Sandboxed environment, all you can do is test if it you can open a custom URL.
Akosma Software maintains a list of popular Url on his wiki: IPhone URL Schemes.
One of my customer provides me an icon including the name of the app Within the icon. I don't find it necessary since the name of the app is inserted below the icon and the icon should contain an explicit logo of the app, nothing else. Not sure it's compliant with iOS guidelines I've looked into the iOS HIG, nothing found.
Any idea on that ?
Thank
I think you can. However you should consider the Apple App Icons Guidelines.
You can see the App Icons Guideline here
I don't know if it's against Guidelines, but your app will not be rejected for this, you can find a lot of applications that have name on icon => Youtube Application