springboard

I'm trying so create a collection view that behaves like the iOS springboard screen. That means that I want to have a collection view, with all of my items, and to have a page controller underneath the grid (just like the springboard screen). I also want to implement the same edit mode, meaning that one my icons are in edit mode, I can drag them from one page to another, in such a way that a page doesn't have to be full. I've tried to set a single collection view to scroll horizontally, but it doesn't act as I want. first of all, the icons are added one below the other, instead of one beside

I have a background service running on iOS5. I am trying to find the duration for which each foreground application runs. I came across this great post by Vikarti Anatra. how to determine which apps are background and which app is foreground on iOS by application id This shows how to get the current foreground process. However, what I would like to know is if there is a method which will give me the start time of various processes launched by Springboard so I can compute the duration. I am trying to create a log of apps launched by my users. This is not meant for app store certification and

I want a event/callback for my iOS app when the network activity goes from none to up (and the other way around). Similar to how Android does with onDataActivity(). I'm not talking about Reachability but when data actually starts or stops transmitting. The app is not for App Store and not for jailbreak. I have got a similar functionality of detecting when the screen goes on/off working by using CFNotificationCenterAddObserver(CFNotificationCenterGetDarwinNotifyCenter(), //center NULL, // observer displayStatusChanged, // callback CFSTR("com.apple.iokit.hid.displayStatus"), // event name NULL,

I would like to use the Springboard services framework to make use of the following code. SBSLaunchApplicationWithIdentifier(CFSTR("com.apple.preferences"), false); However when I download the header files and use it in my project it won't build. Please let me know how to make this work. What exactly are you planning on using that method for? I was under the impression it was for launching an application from a daemon? There are other ways to launch an application quite easily. The most reliable I have found is to use the display stacks to launch the application properly. Other methods of