Prominent iOS Cydia jailbreaker Ryan Petrich has previewed the VideoPane app, allowing for ‘picture-in-picture’ video windows, meaning that you can pull a video clip from an iOS app and play it in a small window overlay on top of any screen, including the home screen or on top of your Safari web browser pages.
The VideoPane app has been showcased in a preview video created by iDownloadblog. The implementation is very slick, you simply tap a button to ‘Detach’ the video window – the example shown is the YouTube app – and you can then flick through the rest of the iOS 7 interface while the video plays. You can also tap a control to expand the video to a fullscreen mode and a nice pinch gesture sends the video back to overlay on the home screen – all the while the video playback remains smooth and uninterrupted by the process.
According to reports, VideoPane will be made available through the dedicated Jailbreak app store Cydia for $1.99 (£1.30).
In early July, Petrich revealed that he’d already found a way to Jailbreak the iOS 7 Beta build despite the software not being due for a public release until somewhere around the middle of September.
Previously prominent jailbreaker groups had halted work on cracking iOS 6.1.3 and 6.1.4 due to the fact that Apple had locked it up completely, with no apparent backdoor into the software. The jailbreaker community hoped that by leaving the recent builds unbroken Apple would leave a vulnerability in iOS 7 and it would appear that this is actually the case with Petrich’s early successes.
Fortunately, Petrich hasn’t revealed how he cracked iOS 7’s early build, so Apple shouldn’t be able to plug the hole and we should hopefully see a Jailbreak released fairly shortly after the September launch.
by pbriden via Featured Articles
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August 05, 2013
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