Is there some sample code, or an easy way, to implement an application with as its first view something like Springboard?
What I am looking for is just a view with
Facebook uses the Three20 library for its UI. The specific view used for the SpringBoard-like interface is known as TTLauncherView
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You can use UICollectionView to create this
Look at this example
https://github.com/tularovbeslan/Springboard
This is not an endorsement (I have yet to really check this out, and I may be too entrenched in using Three20 at this point to even bother), but here is another project that implements the springboard functionality: myLauncher on Github