Are there any other apps that have animated or changing icons? I only know the Apple ones , calendar and clock.
I remember reading somewhere that only the clock and calendar icons update, because they can do so without requiring internet connection and draining battery life in order to update. At least that was supposed to be the reading a long time ago (I think still in the Steve Jobs era)
I’m honestly shocked the Weather icon doesn’t just show the current weather at this point.
Sounds funny. Now I want to see that. But I guess some people could be confused if to many icons changed to much.
@aeronmelon @LeTak the days of obsessive attention to detail in everything Apple does, where ages ago.
And don’t even get me started on Pages & Numbers.
What do you have against pages and numbers
Apple has not made the necessary APIs available. Only those two apps have animated icons. They’re made by Apple and so they are able to use the private APIs needed to do it.
IIRC, the clock and calendar ones are a hack, with code in Springboard actually drawing the icons. Or at least that’s how it was at the start.
Maybe they’ve refactored it into a private API by now, though any such API would involve icon-drawing app extensions sort of like widgets, which seems a bit heavy if only a few system apps will have it as a gimmick.
Same deal on Android. OEM launcher apps override the app icons for the OEM’s calendar and clock apps, and there is no way for a different app to achieve the same effect.
No, there’s no API for that
