In table 7-5 in the iOS Human Interface Guidelines, the italicised 'i' icon is included. The table is labeled "Standard buttons for use in table rows and other UI elements".
Opposite the icon within the table it states:
"Flip to the back of the view to display configuration options or more information.
Note that the Info button is also available as a light-colored “i” in a dark circle."
Does this mean that this or a similar icon cannot be used for anything but configuration options?
I've seen this icon used for many things, such as indicating there is more information to be seen, to information about the app itself that have been approved, so no the icon can be used for other things outside of configuration options.
Apple of course will be fine with anything along the guidelines you quote. If you start to stray too far from the function of presenting information, then yes, Apple will reject.
Do you have something else in mind for the icon?
Update:
In the situation you describe below, I think the info icon is perfect. Especially considering that you intend to closely affiliate the icon visually with its subject - your manuscript.
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I see plenty of applications on the app store that either have blank (black or white) or branded launch screens. This is in spite of the iOS developer guidelines that state, "the launch image isn't an opportunity to provide branded elements," and it also should be, "identical to the first screen of the app." So I do not know where to draw the line between correct and wrong, but I'm hoping that you guys can help me answer that.
I personally would like to place my company logo on the launch screen and place a duplicate logo on the root view controller where I can then animate it to fade out. (I'm not sure if this method is frowned upon and, if so, would it be rejected?)
As you said yourself, a lot of apps is doing that so you don't have to be worried to be rejected. A nice example is Twitter (a bird with fading).
But still you should reconsider if you really need branding in launch screen. You already have branding in an icon, colors and in other elements.
iOS now has a setting in General, accessibility, "Invert Colors". It basically provides a negative image of an app's colors.
I have an app that is mostly dark background elements with light icons and buttons. It would be great to have a setting inside my app to call that invert colors function as needed for specific users.
Any ideas if that setting is exposed? Thanks much!
In general you have no access to the user's Settings, and this is no exception. Your app can't alter general settings on the user's device; that would be a terrible security hole!
However, nothing stops you from putting up an alert or other dialog suggesting that the user might like to do this.
Alternatively, though, what I would recommend is themes. Basically give the user a preference within the app, so that the user can choose or alter the colors of things. Then, in response to the user's setting, you use the appearance proxy to change all the colors thematically throughout the app. There was a good WWDC video either in 2013 or 2012, I think, on this very idea.
In every ios app you can have a list that contains elements with subelements.
Tapping on the element will open a new page and you can usually press back to return.
This is indicated with a grey ">" symbol on the right.
Is this symbol downloadable somewhere? I know i can just type a > but it doesn't look exactly like the default icon used by ios.
I'm using Xamarin dialog and a standard RootElement embedded as a list item looks exactly like the default ios but i need to customize it with an icon placed left of the text(which is no problem except that i now lose the default > icon).
Googling for ios system icons, ios default icons and ios sdk did not yield the wanted result. I'm hoping that these icons are somewhere embedded on the device.
I hope you guys can help me out, thanks !
As far as I know there is no way to access a UIImage instance of the chevron during run time. Most likely there is private API for this, but I am not aware of it, and since it's private you are not allowed to use it anyway.
You could probably instantiate a cell that has the disclosure indicator as accessoryType and walk the view hierarchy to find it. But that will break easily, so don't do it.
The best way is to add an image and update it with every new iOS release.
There's the iOS Artwork Extractor which basically gets you every piece of artwork that is used in iOS.
The artwork you are looking for should be named UITableNext. (at least that's the name in iOS6, I don't have an extracted archive of iOS7 yet)
Strictly speaking you are violating Apples rules and their copyright if you use their artwork without Apples written consent.
As far as I know this has never been enforced, and lots of people do it, but it's good to keep it in mind.
I want to design a page with tab bar on top of it.In some articles of this site.(i missed urls) i found that this is not a common way and the question gets some down rate.
The question is this: whethere having a design like this may cause that apple not approve the application on his store?
Even if it doesn't make Apple reject your app, think of the users not being used to the tab bar being at the top and how that is going to affect how well the app does in the Store.
Every platform has its own design patterns and there is a reason for that. If you stick to them there is a higher chance that the first-time users have an easier time using your app, which results in a higher chance that they keep using it. If they don't know how to use it or find it hard, they will move to another one.
Take a look at the Human Interface Guidelines and apply them. It will do good.
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Localization of Default.png is not working
My splash screen has English text in it, so I would like to be able to have a different splash image when users have a different language set.
Is this possible?
Yes, it's possible. Pretty much the same way you localize all your resources.
You just need to provide a Default.png image and then enable all the languages you're interested in. The result is that you'll get a copy of the image for each language into the respective folders. Then edit (or overwrite) each image as you need. I have tested it right now and it works fine (on iOS 5 but I believe is the same for older versions). Here is a screenshot for easy reference:
EDIT:
Regarding any doubts about whether or not this is a good practice, this is straight from Apple's documentation:
In addition to including the launch images at the top level of your
bundle, you can also include localized versions of your launch images
in your app’s language-specific project subdirectories. For more
information on localizing resources in your app, see Table 6-2.
No.
Edit: Indeed, I'm dumbfounded. Like nevan-king I'm going to leave my answer nevertheless, since I still think that's the way it is intended to be done by the iOS guidelines (and my personal opinion about localizing whole images in order to localize its text...).
A splash screen is not intended to provide information. Splash screens are only shown for like a second or so, so it would be unfeasible to show text anyway.
Common practice for what you want to do is to use your image without text as splashscreen, and after that show a custom view with your image and localized text for a few seconds.
That way it will seem like you had a localized splash screen (and the text appears shortly after the image, which is fine).
However, keep in mind that the idea of iOS apps is fast responsiveness, so only show a "startup screen" if you must (for marketing reasons or whatever).
Read this for further information: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/IconsImages/IconsImages.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH14-SW5
There's no way to do this. Instead, make a Default.png with no text.
Edit: I stand corrected. Just tried Alladinian's method and it worked. I'll leave my answer, as it's a useful technique to know.
You can do this pretty easily in Photoshop by selecting a square, then copying it and pasting it over the text. Use Marquee to select a square of your graphic (say an empty part of a navigation bar). Then hit "v" for the move tool. Use cmd-opt and move the square a little to the left, then cmd-opt-shift so that it doesn't move up or down. Move the square over the text and let go of the mouse button. Repeat as necessary.
If you want to see how Apple handles multi-language splash screens, open Maps or Mail. They have a Default screen with no text, then the text appears (in whatever language) when the app has loaded.