iPhone flipswitch?

[white4s]

what's flipswitch? it's from ryan petrich

i have an update for it but i don't believe i have this tweak even installed. i checked the list of tweaks & it's not in there.

very strange

 

[Asator]

what's flipswitch? it's from ryan petrich

i have an update for it but i don't believe i have this tweak even installed. i checked the list of tweaks & it's not in there.

very strange

It's a centralised toggle system. You probably installed CCToggles or something like that which needed it to be installed.

 

[white4s]

It's a centralised toggle system. You probably installed CCToggles or something like that which needed it to be installed.

don't have cctoggles but i have ccloader which i checked the filesystem content & flipswitch is not part of it. checked the tweaks that i have from him & none have flipswitch

but i just found it in the recent menu. still not sure how it was installed

 

[007p]

don't have cctoggles but i have ccloader which i checked the filesystem content & flipswitch is not part of it. checked the tweaks that i have from him & none have flipswitch

but i just found it in the recent menu. still not sure how it was installed

It comes with Activator as well. You have that installed...right!?

 

[white4s]

It comes with Activator as well. You have that installed...right!?

yup, didn't see flipswitch listed in the filesystem content though?

 

[eyoungren]

It got installed at some point once the betas of Activator started including iOS 7. For me at least. I think I have a few other tweaks that use it. It's a mundane tweak though, meaning that it being there isn't going to hurt anything. Petrich's tweaks are safe.

Not entirely clear exactly what function it serves in my case however, as I'm on iOS 6.1.

 

[white4s]

It got installed at some point once the betas of Activator started including iOS 7. For me at least. I think I have a few other tweaks that use it. It's a mundane tweak though, meaning that it being there isn't going to hurt anything. Petrich's tweaks are safe.

Not entirely clear exactly what function it serves in my case however, as I'm on iOS 6.1.

yea i read the description but really can't understand what it does exactly

 

[eyoungren]

yea i read the description but really can't understand what it does exactly

My best guess is that it's a middleman for something else. CCToggles is mentioned in this thread. Flipswitch is probably the link between a tweak and CCToggles. Do something in the tweak and it talks to flipswitch which then talks to CCToggles.

That again, is just my guess. Petrich isn't known for describing what his tweaks do unfortunately.

 

[nwmtnbiker]

yea i read the description but really can't understand what it does exactly

While in cydia and looking in the installed tab did you see the top where it says expert that'll show all instated. Cydia is layed our different from last time I was jb... I personally while installing tweaks take a screen shot of each tweak and it's depencies and save them in a folder so if I remove later I remove all of it...

 

[007p]

My best guess is that it's a middleman for something else. CCToggles is mentioned in this thread. Flipswitch is probably the link between a tweak and CCToggles. Do something in the tweak and it talks to flipswitch which then talks to CCToggles.

That again, is just my guess. Petrich isn't known for describing what his tweaks do unfortunately.

In activator, on ios 6, do you have a 'Switches Category'? E.g. "Airplane mode - Activate/deactivate swtich'.

If so, that is what its for in ios 6. If activator on ios 6 doesn't have those then I'm not sure what its included for, maybe you can't have dependencies based on ios version?

 

[eyoungren]

In activator, on ios 6, do you have a 'Switches Category'? E.g. "Airplane mode - Activate/deactivate swtich'.

If so, that is what its for in ios 6. If activator on ios 6 doesn't have those then I'm not sure what its included for, maybe you can't have dependencies based on ios version?

Yeah, but that was there long before Flipswitch. I have NCSettings, but I think it was there before that too. In any case, I've had switches for a very long time.

Personally, I think it's just included as part of the default Activator install (now). I see it as acting like a disconnected light switch. Mechanically it works, but it doesn't do anything. All the other stuff is already handled by my other tweaks. So this is why I assume it's an iOS 7 specific thing.

 

[white4s]

My best guess is that it's a middleman for something else. CCToggles is mentioned in this thread. Flipswitch is probably the link between a tweak and CCToggles. Do something in the tweak and it talks to flipswitch which then talks to CCToggles.

That again, is just my guess. Petrich isn't known for describing what his tweaks do unfortunately.

well i have ccloader not cctoggles

i read over it's updates & it's definitely nothing that i do or use on the phone

the very strange part is the update is listed for february 1 2014 & it just showed up now, 4 months later?

 

[nwmtnbiker]

It is installed with activator has been since ios6 according to what I can find in my pictures. Many things including bitesms have flipswitch add ons now but I have never used them... I have CCSettings and Auki installed on my 7.1.1 JB and do not have Flipswitch anywhere but I was trying to stay away from Activator and Virtualhome style tweaks but don't know if I'll be able to!

 

[darricksailo]

Yeah, but that was there long before Flipswitch. I have NCSettings, but I think it was there before that too. In any case, I've had switches for a very long time.

Personally, I think it's just included as part of the default Activator install (now). I see it as acting like a disconnected light switch. Mechanically it works, but it doesn't do anything. All the other stuff is already handled by my other tweaks. So this is why I assume it's an iOS 7 specific thing.

flipswitch is just essentially a centralized way of implementing switches

activator may have had it built into the tweak before, and many apps also had their various methods of implementing switches

but if they use the flipswitch framework, the developer doesn't have to code their own method of switches

i guess you could say it creates a standard that makes a switch to work across many different apps/tweaks. whereas, before flipswitch, many implementations were "proprietary" and specific to their own respective tweak

similar to how many tweaks use activator's framework instead of coding their own way of actions or gestures to invoke something


at least, that's how I understand flipswitch works

 

[eyoungren]

flipswitch is just essentially a centralized way of implementing switches

activator may have had it built into the tweak before, and many apps also had their various methods of implementing switches

but if they use the flipswitch framework, the developer doesn't have to code their own method of switches

i guess you could say it creates a standard that makes a switch to work across many different apps/tweaks. whereas, before flipswitch, many implementations were "proprietary" and specific to their own respective tweak

similar to how many tweaks use activator's framework instead of coding their own way of actions or gestures to invoke something


at least, that's how I understand flipswitch works

I'll buy that. It's not far off from what I was thinking. Personally, it's not an issue to me. I don't have problems like some with dependencies and what not. I was mainly replying to the OP and offering my opinion on what I though flipswitch did.