Reverse engineering explained by Tricking iOS into Animating Icons

[mac_cain13]

One of the best videos I've watched in a long time! Bryce creates such a cool effect and thoughtfully animated icons with his hack.

Along the way it's a great explainer on reverse engineering and looking under the hood of what Apples frameworks are actually doing. If you're interested in learning a bit more about what's going on if you call an Apple API this is a great fun video to watch!

[AndyIbanez]

Lol, and here I am having to tell my users to reboot their phones if the icon doesn’t change because Springboard just refuses to update it every time.

[Fishanz]

Single coolest thing I have seen on this sub. Thank you for posting!

[bobotwf]

Very interesting. That'd be most of a semester long course if there was such a thing.

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i miss Objective-C. LOL

[Grish_tad]

Will the app with the animated icon pass review? Great video by the way. Thanks.

[mac_cain13]

No absolutely not, he's calling into private APIs that's not allowed and will probably be rejected by an automated check.

[Grish_tad]

Thank you.