Use CoverFlow to view everything on your iPhone
By Will Park on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 2:25 PM PST In Applications, Developer, iPhone
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s CoverFlow view is slick indeed. Paired with the iPhone’s capacitance multi-touch display, CoverFlow really shines. Well, it shines in the iPhone’s album/music browsing function and nowhere else. It’s just a shame that CoverFlow wasn’t more fully developed to work in other iPhone features – thanks, Apple.
And, that’s why we love the third-party iPhone development community (all without an official iPhone SDK, by the way). Kevin Brosius figured out how to use the CoverFlow UI in other iPhone applications. Then, Layton
Duncan put together a demo application that displays your iPhone’s Applications directory in all its CoverFlow glory.
We’re crossing our fingers for iPhone developers to integrate CoverFlow view into every iPhone application.
Jailbreak and SSH are a must to take advantage of the new CoverFlow application for your Application list/homescreen, but you’ve already got those bases covered. Right?
PicBrowser implements CoverFlow for the iPhone/iPod Touch for browsing images with search engines such as google, flickr and photobucket (1.0) and added in version 1.1 yahoo and ask.com. Check it out in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBJCVUie2Dc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeiPVq-vvhc
http://www.youtube.com/v/nCjjg85wUrE
http://www.youtube.com/v/WBl6byJU3R4