One night in June I has an idea stuck in my mind: how would I implement SpringBoard? And a few months later here we are. jSpringBoard is an app that tries to reproduce as best as possible some of the UI and interaction of the iOS 10 SpringBoard, including:
- Dock
- App grid, with reordering, delete, folder creation etc
- Opening apps (if you have them)
- Calendar live icon
- Clock live icon
- Compass live icon which is not a feature of the real SpringBoard but I thought it might be fun
- 3D Touch shortcuts
- Virtual home button (just the home button part of assistive touch)
- Reachability
- Spotlight with voice search
- Today view with Siri App Suggestions and Weather widgets. New widgets can be easily created by making a view controller conform to the
WidgetProvidingprotocol. - A Settings app where you can change the wallpaper and manage the grid: reorder apps, reset to defaults and change app info such as the icon, name, badge and bundle ID.
Click on the image below to see a video of the app in action:
I tried to make all the UI and animations as close as possible to the real SpringBoard, but there are some places where I couldn't achieve the result I wanted.
First, the app open animation looks wrong specially when closing:
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The Spotlight animation from the Today view is more subtle on the real SpringBoard:
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Finally, the folder creation animation also looks different but I think this one is a bit better on my side:
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