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iPhone User Interface Cookbook

You're reading from   iPhone User Interface Cookbook A concise dissection of Apple's iOS user interface design principles

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849691147
Length 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cameron Banga Cameron Banga
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

iPhone User Interface Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
PacktLib.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started: Prototyping, Proper Tools, and Testing our Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing our Icon, the Navigation Bar, and the Tab Bar 3. Different Ways to "View" our Application 4. Utilizing Common UI Elements 5. All About Games 6. Starting, Stopping, and Multitasking 7. Notifications, Locations, and Sounds 8. Accessibility, Options, and Limited Opportunity to Help our User 9. Migrating to the iPad The Importance of Direct Manipulation
If you need a stylus, you blew it

Removing the app icon's gloss effect


Apple created iOS to offer a standard icon, originally equal to 57 pixels by 57 pixels. On top of these icons, a standard glass reflection effect was placed on top of all icons.

But there will be times at which we feel that our icon will look better without the gloss effect. In this recipe, we'll discuss how we can remove this effect and create a crisp and bright icon.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll need XCode installed on a Macintosh computer. We'll also need the project file for our application in order to edit its Info.plist.

How to do it...

With a few simple steps, we'll easily remove the ship from our iOS icon on the user's home screen. Let's take a look at what is needed in order to remove the effect:

  1. 1. Open our application project in XCode. We should begin by opening our project in XCode. If we need to check the code out of a repository or just open it from our computer, we should do so now.

  2. 2. In XCode, open the project's Info.plist file....

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