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How to display red status on home screen on iPhone?

I'm making an app which is a counter.

I would like to show the time when the user enters the home screen as it is shown here:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8455739/SCR/IMG_2696.PNG

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8455739/SCR/IMG_2697.PNG

Is it possible to use it? If yes, where to find it and how to use it?

Thanks in advance

Solution

  • You cannot change the content of the home screen.

    What you can do that you display such a status bar inside your application.
    The exampels you showed, have such a bar inside an application.

    To create such a bar you create a custom View (see Apple ViewProgramming Guide) where you implement drawRect(). In drawRect you draw a red rectangle with CGFillRect() or similar methods of CoreGraphics / Quartz2D.