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iOS

Posted by Joseph Hall
Joseph Hall
10,865 Points

Questions on making a Mobile App that makes screen cracks less noticeable

Hi Everyone,

So I am building an app for client that is supposed to make screen cracks less noticeable, i.e making the screen at the portion lighter/darker. Does anyone know of an API that can make certain portions of a screen, given a rectangular bounds, change programmatically?

Robert Bojor
Robert Bojor
Courses Plus Student 29,439 Points

Hi joseph,

I don't think something like that exists, and one explanation would be that you can't affect other apps, or even iOS from inside your app and force them to display a rectangle of different brightness / contrast while also displaying their content.

Maybe you can achieve this with a special background in iOS, but the app icons will still be on top of that background. Another solution would be an external one, i.e. plastic cover like the security covers that change tint based on the angle light hits it.