How to access iPhone Simulator's images

Question

Is there any way to access the internal images that the iPhone simulator uses?

For example, if I want to get the original image used for one of the default app icons (e.g. Contacts). This way I could get the highest possible resolution, and examine it for purposes of creating similar icons for my app.

Another example of an image I might want to access is the default icon for a contact:

I'm not asking for a programmatic solution (although that would work), I'm asking for a manual solution, possibly navigating the Simulator's file system using Finder.

Answer 1

EDIT: added two more links for iphone icon images.

You dont need to do this.

Just grab a User Interface Kit:

Heres a website you can go to to download the .psd files which you can use for your self for free:

http://webdesignledger.com/freebi

For another library of iphone icons. This one includes the contacts icon:

http://www.iphonestudio.co.uk/page/iphone_icon_gallery

And here are the iphone icons on the main screen made downloadable for your own use. here are official icons in different sizes. check the quality of the Photos icon. wow.

http://www.iconarchive.com/category/application/iphone-icons-by-judge.html

Hope this helps.

Let me know if it did

PK

Answer 2

You can find the apps at e.g. /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator4.1.sdk/Applications. The icon of Contacts is at /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator4.1.sdk/Applications/Contacts.app/icon.png or [email protected]. But you can't easily read them, as they are in a strange format (it's not standard PNG), you need to convert them. See for example this article or this article.