Drag-icon to open notifications

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  1. Danneman101, Feb 17, 2012

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    What do you call that drag-icon that in the push-notification screen (the one you drag out from the top of the iphone)?

    I want to use it to hint at the user that if you drag this icon you'll expose a tabbar with controls you can use, instead of having the toolbar showing all the time and obscuring a large chunk of the screen.

    Kinda hard to google when you don't know the name, though, so thought I'd ask :)

    Here's a picture for clarification. I'm talking about the icon at the very bottom in the middle (three lines):

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  2. Danneman101, Feb 17, 2012

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  3. PhoneyDeveloper, Feb 17, 2012

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    The screenshot you show is of the Notification Center. The notifications are UILocalNotifications that have been posted by apps on the device. Probably also push notifications end up there as well. The weather and stocks are "special" Apple apps that can add stuff to the notification center in a way that isn't in the public APIs.
     
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  4. Sydde, Feb 17, 2012

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    He was talking about the image at the bottom of the notifications tab, where you flick to close it. He wanted to use a similar thing on a collapsible toolbar in a UI, but apparently devised a design the he prefers.
     
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  5. OverByThere, Feb 26, 2012

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    In Drupal (PHP CMS system) we have these at the bottom of textviews to make them bigger. In this case they're called "Grippie"s usually, but I'm not sure of the term for Apple, but if I had to refer to it, I would call it the Notification Centre grippie..
     
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  6. ArtOfWarfare, Feb 26, 2012

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    The icon isn't dissimilar from the one in UITableViews that appears on the right side of all of the cells that are rearrangeable. (For example, if you go into the World Clock tab of the built in Clock app and tap the edit button.)
     
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