I just updated to iOS5 and noticed their new notification centre (that you drag down from the top of the screen) is active by default in Corona apps.
This is going to be a problem for any apps that have ads at the top of screen or any UI buttons up there.
Is there a way to disable this either through LUA or build.settings?
Thanks
David MacMinn
Play This! Studios [import]uid: 12962 topic_id: 16839 reply_id: 316839[/import]
There’s currently no way I know of to disable this feature, and personally I don’t know if you should.
Disabling it would break the expected behavior of iOS5.
Since users tap on ads and buttons, I don’t see that it interferes with the UI at all. The Notification Center only gets activated with a rather deliberate swipe downwards. I’ve tried tapping on the status-bar like crazy and not even once was it activated by mistake. [import]uid: 70847 topic_id: 16839 reply_id: 63107[/import]
Thanks for the reply ingemar.
Well, I have a couple of things in the works that require the user to “drag” objects from a UI element at the top of the screen into the game world. And it is triggering the notification centre every time, which is not acceptable from a player’s point of view.
Cheers,
David MacMinn [import]uid: 12962 topic_id: 16839 reply_id: 63187[/import]
Good point, I will get an answer on this for you [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 16839 reply_id: 63254[/import]
Aha. Yeah, that would be a problem.
Maybe as a default, the Notification Center could be deactivated when the status-bar is hidden. [import]uid: 70847 topic_id: 16839 reply_id: 63277[/import]
Yea, and just looking at some online forums, it seems to be a real problem with Fruit Ninja (and all the clones) or any game that uses a vertical swipe mechanic.
Let’s hope the solution can be as easy as the one you proposed!
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This is a huge issue for me as I use downward/upward swipe as primary controls for my game. The little tab appears every time I do anything. [import]uid: 70996 topic_id: 16839 reply_id: 63386[/import]
AFAIK as a core part of the OS you cannot override this. Even if you found some hack/workaround Apple would likely reject your app for doing so if the issue was spotted during approval.
Ideally Apple would extend the touch surface above the height of the screen so that you could initiate this and other global OS gestures with more intent inside fullscreen apps.
Tap events are pretty well distinguished from the swipe down gesture that initiates it, so just take it into consideration and maybe put some chrome or ui buttons at that part of the screen if it seems like a problem. But yeah, unfortunately it can be annoying for games. [import]uid: 87138 topic_id: 16839 reply_id: 89013[/import]
Revaerie and others are correct; this is not something that Apple will let you turn off 
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The easiest way for that is to revert back to an older iOS version.
It is not your game alone that suffers from this, every app that runs on iOS 5 has the same issue, so if it is critical in your app, you will have to change the interactivity inputs. [import]uid: 3826 topic_id: 16839 reply_id: 89023[/import]
The notification pulldown is the worst UI guffaw i’ve seen from Apple.
I never have used it that notification pulldown once deliberately. Many times accidentally.
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Is it still not possible to disable it? [import]uid: 24111 topic_id: 16839 reply_id: 97478[/import]
Same as previous post. Sorry. [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 16839 reply_id: 97496[/import]