June 2012
6 posts
Wrapp iOS developer Simon Blommegård has been experimenting further with the new adaptive status bar and how it determines which color to use from the header bar. Turns out it’s quite a funky method. Rather than going on the tintColor, It uses the average color from the bottom pixel row of the header bar. This is illustrated by Simon’s yellow header bar with a blue and red bottom pixel row, resulting in a purple status bar:
- This was Apple’s 23rd WWDC, making it the longest-running developer conference around.
- It sold out in one hour and 43 minutes.
- It hosts attendees from more than 60 countries.
- There are 400 million App Store accounts.
- And there are about 650,000 apps in the App Store itself.
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The new status bar in iOS 6 is actually not blue, which you might think from looking at Apple’s keynote, but adaptive to whichever color the app uses. It uses the tintColor set on the navigation bar. Nice find by iOS developer Simon Ljungberg.
Swedish travel planer “Skånetrafiken” uses a red…


With only a week to go before WWDC 2012 and the surprises Apple will announce there, today seems like a good time to release updates to our suite of free software to include the rocky-racoon jailbreak and untether developed by @pod2g and @planetbeing! Today’s updates are:
- PwnageTool 5.1.1
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