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Monday, April 28, 2014

Icon generation at App Startup

I'm a new Apple Developer doing design work on a few ideas.  My questions are:

1.  Can an App program read a file "external" to itself (not in the App program itself) and change the number of icons painted on the screen at startup?  And if so, can the icon names and pictures be changed by whats in this external file?  Here is an example....  I'm looking to design one App that the screen "appears" different for each user of the program.  Lets say User 1 wants his screen to show his picture and 5 icons on his screen with info unique to him... User 2 wants 2 icons with his info.... User 3 wants 9 icons with their data displayed.  The key here is none of this is "hard coded" in the App programming itself, but held in a user file (maybe a CSV file), that is read at startup and then paints the screens accordingly.  Otherwise, I need 3 different apps to complete this idea.  I hope this makes sense to some of you out there!!  Thanks so much for any input you might have!


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