iphone-privateapi

I wanted to detect two events : Device gets locked/unlocked. Device goes to sleep and the screen blackens. First one I have been able to achieve here: Is there a way to check if the iOS device is locked/unlocked? Now I want to detect the second event, is there any way to do it ? Nate You basically already have the solution, which I'm guessing you found from one of my recent answers :) Use the com.apple.springboard.hasBlankedScreen event. There are multiple events that occur when the screen blanks, but this one should suffice: CFNotificationCenterAddObserver

is there a way to programmatically turn off the display in iOS? Not just turning brightness down, but off like the way the Phone App does. I am happy to use private API, since this is for personal use. Thanks! You can turn off the display by enabling the proximity monitoring. It will automatically turn off the screen, like in the Phone app, by placing the phone near your ears or by placing a finger over the IR sensor at the top of the phone. [UIDevice currentDevice].proximityMonitoringEnabled = YES; Elias Limneos You can do this, (obviously, using Private APIs of course) : on iOS5: #include

Is there a web site or project documenting private APIs for the iPhone SDK? nst here are searchable archives from iPhone OS 2.2.1 to iOS 9.2 https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers Most likely. Just use the command line application class-dump to view the private headers. Note that your app will be rejected from the App Store for linking to private frameworks if you link at compile. It is easy enough to see that you are linking the private frameworks by running otool on your binary if linked at compile. These are the compilable headers generated by class-dump-z , a iOS class dumper: http:/