When an application is deleted from an iOS device, that particular icon gets removed and all other app icons get re-arranged — moved one place left.
I want to do a similar thing: I’ll have a 3×3 grid. When I touch any of the items, that one will get deleted and all the others will perform the animation as when an app icon has been deleted.
How should I proceed with this?
What you want is AQGridView which can be found on github. It provides animations for reordering and orientation changes. Fairly easy to implement too. Look at the included Springboard example. Here is a video of AQGridView animating orientation changes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPwY1HHRQJ8