Launch Your Favorite Apps From The Lockscreen With AppSlider

Launch Your Favorite Apps From The Lockscreen With AppSlider

Password = 1234

Apple recently announced that the twenty fifth billionth app has been downloaded from their official App Store confirming that their app store is the biggest on the mobile planet. This does show that iOS users are active in the App Store it also reminded us that we should mention the unofficial Cydia Store which also has impressive numbers. Cydia is home to some really great third-party tweaks and modifications for jailbroken iOS devices and more are being added daily.

One of the latest Tweaks is called AppSlider and this was created by developer Ron Melkhior. This tweak makes modifications to either side of the slide to unlock graphic on the idevice's lockscreen. This is perfect for anyone who has one or two applications that they use all the time. Twitter users can have Twitter located on the lockscreen giving them quick launch access without having to unlock first.

The AppSlider tweak really just gives users the ability to launch custom applications from their lockscreen and it does this by adding the chosen applications to both sides of the slider. This tweak has its own preferences panel which can be found in the setting application and this is where you can choose your two lockscreen applications from. You can toggle this tweak on and off through the setting panel which is also great. AppSlider is a very simple and very powerful tweak and it will definitely appeal to iPhone users who have a couple of apps that they use all the time. For security conscious people you will be happy to hear that the AppSlider tweak respects the passcode lock setting so if you have a passcode lock set through your settings app, the numeric keypad will still be presented when the application is tapped which will require the correct password before proceeding into the app itself.

AppSlider is available from the BigBoss repository and it is free to download. You will need to be running iOS 5 and have a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch.

Password = 1234

Launch Your Favorite Apps From The Lockscreen With AppSlider