How to retrieve standard iPhone tabitem images?

Question

I would like to use the standard icons like search, download, contact, setup, and list. Most of them existing in app like App Store, but I am not sure how to retrieve them.

Thanks

Answer 1

The icons for each application is in that application's directory. Just use SCP to copy them to your computer.

For example, the icons for the app store are in /Applications/MobileStore.app

Answer 2

Not sure if you can do this in Interface Builder, but you can certainly use "system" icons programatically, for example:

[[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTabBarSystemItem:UITabBarSystemItemDownloads tag:0];

There are a number of other icons:

typedef enum {
   UITabBarSystemItemMore,
   UITabBarSystemItemFavorites,
   UITabBarSystemItemFeatured,
   UITabBarSystemItemTopRated,
   UITabBarSystemItemRecents,
   UITabBarSystemItemContacts,
   UITabBarSystemItemHistory,
   UITabBarSystemItemBookmarks,
   UITabBarSystemItemSearch,
   UITabBarSystemItemDownloads,
   UITabBarSystemItemMostRecent,
   UITabBarSystemItemMostViewed,
} UITabBarSystemItem;

If you want any others I guess you'll have to draw them yourself!

Answer 3

And once more, visually: In Interface Builder, select your Tab Bar or Toolbar item and then bring up the Attributes tab in the Inspector (⌘1) and under Identifier, select the system icon you want to use.

Answer 4

See here: http://www.alexcurylo.com/blog/2009/01/03/extracting-sdk-icons/