Gravity brings realistic gravitational physics to your jailbroken handset’s Home screen

In all the years I’ve been jailbreaking iPhones as well as testing jailbreak tweaks, 1 classic has ever stood out to me inward particular, as well as that was Conrad Kramer’s famous Graviboard. Just every bit the bring upward suggests, this tweak brought existent gravitational physics to your handset’s Home screen, causing all your app icons to autumn inward the direction of gravity.

Albeit released nearly nine years ago, Graviboard was 1 of the coolest reasons to jailbreak an iPhone dorsum inward the day. Given the magnitude of the master tweak’s popularity, it’s unsurprising that in that place have been a few reincarnations since then. One of the most recent remakes to pay a viit to Cydia is Gravity yesteryear iOS developer Julio Verne.

In add-on to invoking an ounce of nostalgia, Gravity lives upward to its hype every bit an ‘alternative to Graviboard.’ As shown inward the screenshot event above, the tweak recreates the same (or similar) gravitational physics you’d hold off from the near-decade-old classic.

But every bit you lot mightiness come upward to expect, Gravity is configurable.
You’ll honor a preference pane inward the Settings app where you lot tin flaming customize the
tweak to your liking:

Here, you lot can:

• Toggle the tweak on or off on demand
• Allow the tweak to activate automatically
• Include the Dock icons
• Allow app launches field the tweak is active
• Enable icon rotation (to ameliorate copy a fall)
• Hide the icon labels
• Adjust the fall’s ‘bounciness’
• Adjust the fall’s ‘friction’
• Adjust the fall’s ‘angular resistance’
• Adjust the fall’s ‘fall speed’
• Adjust the gravitational touching on the icons
• Adjust the accelerometer’s update interval
• Adjust the ‘explosive force’
• Move icons yesteryear swiping on them
• Configure Activator actions:
  • For toggling the effect
  • For turning gravity on/off
  • For toggling the explosion effect
• Reset all settings to their defaults

There’s apparently a lot of physics involved inward developing a
tweak of this caliber; that said, it’s squeamish how the preference pane isn’t
overly-complicated inward that regard. Using basic terminology similar ‘bounciness,’ ‘friction,’
and ‘fall speed’ helps anyone (even those who aren’t physics majors) to understand
how they’re configuring Gravity. Of course, case as well as mistake tends to assist too.

A quick note, however, is that the accelerometer is used to mensurate the motion that activates the gravitational effect. You tin flaming adapt the update interval of the accelerometer check, but practice exceed along inward heed that increasing this interval volition negatively touching battery life every bit the software volition tap into the sensor to a greater extent than frequently.

Unlike Graviboard as well as unopen to of the reincarnates over the years, Gravity is a complimentary download from Julio Verne’s beta repository inward Cydia. If you’ve ever appreciated these tweaks as well as never had the dough to coughing upward for them, as well as then here’s your direct chances to snag it for free. Gravity plant on all jailbroken devices running iOS 7-11 as well as is opened upward source on the developer’s GitHub repository.

Are you lot happy to come across a tweak similar Gravity inward this twenty-four hours and
age of the jailbreak community? Discuss inward the comments department below.

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