iOS UIPopoverController on iPhone

[Saladinos]

Pages does it:

http://www.mobypicture.com/user/wouter88/view/9669465

Why can't we?

 

[harryslotwiner]

Either this is not something that Apple allows developers to use in which case, you can't because they say so; or that is not actually a popover which, to me, looks to be. There are a couple of characteristics of the "popover" that don't look the same as a UIPopover on the iPad such as the white outline.

 

[xStep]

From the UIPopoverController documentation: "Popover controllers are for use exclusively on iPad devices.".

I wrote a basic hack that looks similar for a non-iPad app I'm writing. It is not really a popover controller, but has the look which is what I'm currently interested in.