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Add icon to home screen like Safari

I saw the Bug Me iPhone app and was intrigued by the ability to add icons to the home screen. I figured it would work similar to the way that Safari achieves it.

There as a similar question here that said it was not possible: Implementing "Add to Home Screen", ala Safari

Clearly there is a way and I am not looking in the right places.

Has anyone else worked it out yet?

Solution

  • You have to use Safari.

    BugMe saves the note on home screen by:

    1. Upload the note to their server.
    2. Launch Safari by -openURL: with a URL to their server.
    3. In Safari, the user is instructed to press the "+" key to add a special bugme:// link to home screen.

    There's no other ways if only documented methods can be used.

    For private APIs, create a UIWebClip object and use -[UIApplication addWebClipToHomeScreen:].