real time app icon like iOS 7 clock

ios ios7 clock
parilogic picture parilogic · Oct 3, 2013 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

I saw clock app in iOS 7. Its app icon shows time on the icon itself. User don't even have to peep inside the icon to see the time. How to achieve this ?

Answer

mhaddl picture mhaddl · Oct 3, 2013

Apple always had some cool private APIs which we developers aren't allowed to use in production Apps, the animated App-Icon is one of them. Most of the time it's to save the experience for the user. Imagine every App uses an auto-updating Icon. The battery-life would go down and it would be a mess on the homescreen when everything is moving and blinking.

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