Difference between revisions of "/System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app"

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Springboard.app is the most important application in iPhone OS user interface. It can be defined as the iPhone OS Window Manager (like fluxbox or fvwm in Linux). SpringBoard manages other programs on the [[iPhone]] or [[iPod Touch]], and is responsible for locking the device ("slide to unlock" and activation screen). Icons that are shown in SpringBoard pages can be rearranged by tapping and holding the icon.
The SpringBoard is the First thing you see when you power up your [[iPhone]] or [[iPod Touch]] and pass the lock screen. The SpringBoard has access to all your apps apart from SpringBoard [[extension]]s. An app includes but us not limited to: Facebook, TapTap, Quake, Mail and Google Maps etc. You can reorganise apps on the [[iPhone]] SpringBoard by tapping and holding. On any app. You can then drag the apps around with your finger. Alternatively, [[iTunes]] 9 has an organiser that allows you to do the same on you PC/Mac
 
   
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== MobileSubstrate extensions ==
== And when its features have been exhausted..... ==
 
The SpringBoard can be extended to do a whole lot more if you [[Jailbreak]] and use [[Mobile Substrate]]
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After jailbreaking the device, SpringBoard can be extended with 3rd party extensions injected by [[Mobile Substrate]].

Revision as of 21:50, 18 October 2009

Springboard.app is the most important application in iPhone OS user interface. It can be defined as the iPhone OS Window Manager (like fluxbox or fvwm in Linux). SpringBoard manages other programs on the iPhone or iPod Touch, and is responsible for locking the device ("slide to unlock" and activation screen). Icons that are shown in SpringBoard pages can be rearranged by tapping and holding the icon.

MobileSubstrate extensions

After jailbreaking the device, SpringBoard can be extended with 3rd party extensions injected by Mobile Substrate.