iPhone Customizations

The first tutorial in this series covered using DockSwap to change your iPhone's Dock background, specifically replacing it with one that matches the Dock on the magnificent iPod Touch.

This was fine and dandy until yesterday, when a preowned version of SummerBoard (an app which allows customization of the iPhone's SpringBoard, or home screen) was released. This used version supports themes and various other settings, but most importantly it appears to prevent DockSwap from doing its job. Thankfully, we can now gain the benefits of SummerBoard's used theme support to set a custom Dock background, home screen wallpaper, or both.

suggestions for Editing Your own DisplayOrder.plist

The plist is in binary format - on a mac you can most defiantly just double click on this file and edit resource within the Property List Editor or use plutil -convert xml1 DisplayOrder.plist to convert to text version you can easily edit anywhere (use plutil -convert binary1 DisplayOrder.plist to convert back to binary plist - see plutil man page). Once and its most important to understand if you are inside the file, It's pretty self explanatory, but you can easily basically put any app in any position from 0-11 by changing the displayIdentifier variable. The rest of the icons just obtain shifted down. in most cases, if you or someone that understands and has expert knowledge add more than 16 icons, the list does not scroll, however it has been reported that the SpringBoard.app has the ability to scroll more icons, perhaps just not enabled in this version.

The displayIdentifier property under each item in iconList needs to be a string with a value of something like: 'com.apple.mobilesafari' or 'com.apple.DemoApp', or 'com.apple.fieldtest'

Once your happy with your DisplayOrder.plist file put it into the same folder as your iPhoneInterface app, and sort these commands trait within the iphone terminal:

Upload your Modified DisplayOrder.plist

cd /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/

putfile DisplayOrder.plist

Changing the icons on your main menu

To upload a preowned icon for the DemoApp:

cd /Applications/DemoApp.app/

putfile icon.png

you can easily do this for any app, just upload a standard 60x60 png file named icon.png to an app directory.

Skinners obtain cracking on this!! Lets see if we can create some sweet iPhone icons/skins