How would I go about acquiring the transparent overlay for the iPhone's home screen icons?

Question

I'd like to have the home screen style for a section of my app, and the icon style will most likely be the 'make it or break it' aspect. Right now, I've got it looking pretty decent. I just have a black background with rounded buttons and the basic system text under them as labels. With a few modifications to this psd kit I've been able to make relatively decent looking ripoff icons. I just think they would look that much better if I could get the actual thing. Is it possible to get the overlay that apple uses without getting sued?

Answer 1

These images are stored in a packed binary file inside UIKit. If you have a jailbroken device, you can generate the images by installing Winterboard and running /Applications/Winterboard.app/UIImages from MobileTerminal or an SSH session. Alternatively, you can try and get saurik's UIImages source to work from inside an Xcode project.

Note: distributing these images isn't completely legal
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