How to animate application icon in iOS?

iphone ios objective-c ipad ios7

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Solution 1

The iOS SDK does not allow you to change/animate your apps icon. Apple's own apps are ofcourse an exception.

Solution 2

iOS doesn't allow you to use animated app icon. You need to have a look at https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/AppIcons.html

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VisioN

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Updated on July 09, 2022

Comments

VisioN almost 2 years

I have recently identified that in iOS 7 the clock icon is animating showing the real time.

Does anyone have a clue how to make your application icon animating? Or is that a feature of one single application?
- VisioN over 10 years
  
  @downvoter Of course I can't demonstrate my code or whatever because I have no clue if this is possible or not. Be clever.
- Mick MacCallum over 10 years
  
  stackoverflow.com/questions/19088977/…
- VisioN over 10 years
  
  @0x7fffffff Ha! I was sure there is a question about it but haven't found in the search. Anyways there is no solid answer in that thread, but thanks for noticing.
- Mick MacCallum over 10 years
  
  Just pointing it out. It seems everyone knows that it can't be done without jailbreaking, but not how to actually do it using private API.
VisioN over 10 years

I was thinking if Apple has technical possibilities to do this maybe there is something even undocumented which we missed.
rckoenes over 10 years

Well if it is undocumented then how will you know about it? ;) maybe the jailbreak community has some new libraries but for AppStore Apps there is not way to do this.
VisioN over 10 years

In the same way how jailbreaks were written I guess ;)
rckoenes over 10 years

Add the jailbreak tag to your question, that might make jailbreak developers find your question.
VisioN almost 4 years

I guess this technique will change the icon from the app on demand and not on the background when the application is not running.
Alexey Volkov almost 4 years

@VisioN, probably you can use background tasks. developer.apple.com/documentation/backgroundtasks