How to place max apps on Home Screen - iPhone 4S

On iPhone 4S, We can place more than 2000 apps on the Home screen. We just need to know how to add more home screens and how to create folders.

We can add up to 11 home screens and each home screen can have 16 folders with 12 apps each (total of 2112 apps). The inbuilt Newsstand app itself acts as folder which occupies the space of 12 apps. Hence 2101 apps can be placed on the entire 11 home screen. You can create 4 more folders with 12 apps each on the Dock (total of 48 apps). The overall number of apps you can place on the Home screen is 2149.

To do any change on the home screen, touch and hold any app. All the apps will start jiggling. Now,

How to add more Home screens?

Drag the app you want to move to the right hand corner of the screen to reach the next home screen. You can release it to place the app on second home screen or drag it still to right hand corner to reach the third home screen and so on.

How to create a folder on home screen?

When the apps are jiggling, drag any app and release it on top of the other app. A folder will be created with those two apps in it. You can name the folder or leave it with default name.

How to add apps to an existing folder?

When the apps are jiggling, drag the app and release it on top of the existing folder. Now the app is added to the folder.

How to add folders with apps to the Dock?

Create the folders with apps to move to Dock on Home screen. When the folders are jiggling, drag the folder and release it on the Dock. Now the folder is added on the Dock.

Note: In order to free the icons from jiggling, press the Home button.

New to iOS 5 Programming - Overview of iOS SDK

System Requirements to do iOS Programming

• Intel Mac Procesor
• Mac OS X Lion

Getting Started

• Go to App Store, Search for Xcode and download Xcode Developer Tools.
• Install Xcode. By default the tools will be installed in /Developer/Applications folder or you can choose the folder for installation.

Overview of Tools

Xcode Environment:

Double click Xcode icon from /Developer/Applications folder and launch the Welcome to Xcode screen. Tap Create a new Xcode project. Now you will launch the Xcode IDE. You can find different templates to support different types of projects. I am just choosing the template 'Empty Application'. Tap Next to continue.

 

Entering the Product Name as 'FirstApp' and Company Identifier as 'Techzio'. Tap Next to Continue. Choose the destination folder and Tap Create.

 

I have created my first application.

 

iOS Simulator:

iOS simulator simulates various features of iphone, ipad, iphone(retina) on your mac. The Applications created can be tested on iOS Simulator to certain extent since it doesnot support some features of the real device. Run the Application 'FirstApp' in the Xcode by tapping the Run button at the left top corner of the Xcode IDE. Now the Xcode installs the App in the iOS Simulator and opens the simulator.

 

 You can choose the device to simulate in the iOS Simulator.

 

Interface Builder:

Interface Builder is a visual tool to design user interface for your applications.  Create a New File (Xcode->File->New File) in the Xcode. Select iOS->User Interface->Application. Tap Next to Continue.

Select your device and Tap Create to launch the Interface Builder.

 

   

Instrument:

Instrument is used to trace the performance of your Application. Launch Instrument from /Developer/Instruments.