How can I get a transparent background in my iOS app so I can see the Home Screen wallpaper?

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Apple has removed the ability to use this api in 7.0.3. What a shame.

You certainly can in iOS7, at least as of a few days ago. In our app once you set the following it makes your background transparent and shows the user wallpaper. If you try to programmatically take a screenshot, it will just show black instead.

  1. Set UIApplicationIsOpaque to false in the project plist

  2. In the app delegate load function:

    self.window.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

    self.window.opaque = NO;

  3. Set the UIViewController.view‘s background color to [UIColor clearColor]

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