title: Springboard like appearance without Three20 or Nimbus
body: <p>I want to make a button launcher just like Springboard / Facebook / Google+.</p>
  
  <p>But, I don't want to:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>use <a href="http://three20.info/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Three20</a> - it looks perfect except for the horrid coding experience due to documentation. (I also wonder if it is abandonware, doubt it, but with Nimbus I wonder.)</li>
  <li>use <a href="http://www.ohloh.net/p/nimbus-ios" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Nimbus</a> - it looks like it will be perfect, but not today and I need it now.</li>
  <li>use a stock UI button, with a background image that is transparent at the bottom and move the Title down to that area. - This just seems like a gross hack.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Two possibilities are:
   - AlanQuatermain's <a href="https://github.com/AlanQuatermain/AQGridView" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AQGridView</a> 
   - rigoneri/Jarada's <a href="https://github.com/Jarada/myLauncher" rel="nofollow noreferrer">myLauncher2</a></p>
  
  <p>Both of these have licenses which permit commercial development and both seem to be actively used. I'll try both of them but I was wondering if I missed any and if there were any gotcha's with either of them.</p>
  
  <p>Oh, I could roll my own button (see <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1674149/create-a-uibutton-like-the-app-buttons-on-the-springboard-home-screen">this question</a>) but if there is an open source button out there that would save me some effort. I don't really need the Launcher right now, my app fits on one screen with a spare button slot, but of course it would be nice so I could have room to grow. AQGridView and myLauncher would really have to be bad for me to consider doing that.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any other pitfalls with Nimbus, AQGridView, myLauncher2 that I've not mentioned? Are there any other players in the "Springboard-like" UI framework field?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>
  
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  <p>Note: It does appear that I can use Nimbus's Launcher without worrying too much about all the other Nimbus code if I don't want too. Nimbus is very modular, I just need the Core and the Launcher and I satisfy my requirements above. The nice thing about this approach is that as Nimbus matures I can pick and choose the other features from it that I want to use.</p>
  
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