CirDock is a tweak launched last night in Cydia for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touches running the operating system iOS 8, and with his help we can implement a major change for our terminals.
As you will see in the video clip below, CirDock it gives us the opportunity to completely change the way applications are displayed in the dock of the operating system, the change being an extremely important one and you will probably be satisfied with it.
Practically CirDock offers the possibility to display several applications in the dock, but also to access them differently, the tweak having a series of settings that give us the possibility to control these two aspects, but much more than that, as you can see down.
- The ability to enable selected apps from within the settings pane
- Selecting some of the enabled apps as favorite apps so that a smaller number of apps are visible which makes spotting that favorite app easier
- Displaying all applications that have badges on them. This has one of two modes:
- a. Only displaying the enabled applications that have badges on them
- b. Displaying ALL the applications installed that have badges on them
- Highlighting all running applications (either foremost or backgrounded) so that it is easy to spot running apps and terminate them using the app switcher if a running app shouldn't be (note: messages app will almost always be running)
- Choosing a highlighting color to customize the dock even further
- Selecting one of the carousel layouts for the dock… the current layouts include: (if -In is appended to the end of the word, then an inverted layout of that layout is also available)
- Linear
- Rotary
- Cylinder - In
- Wheel-In
- Cover Flow 1
- Cover Flow 2
- Time Machine -In
- Long holding the dock to rotate between the display modes (default, favorite, badged), as well as enabling and disabling a certain display mode and rearranging the enabled display modes (default mode cannot be disabled nor rearranged)
- The ability to export the settings to a file, copy it over to another device or back it up, and then importing it later on to restore the settings or to change the settings on the new device
- Resetting the settings to the default for a 'fresh' start
CirDock has a settings menu available in the Settings application, Configurations, of the operating system and with their help we can control its entire mode of operation in iDevices, so from there you can customize everything exactly as you want.
CirDock is available for download for $1 from Cydia's BigBoss repo.
