iPhone access to Springboard icons

Is it possible for an app to access Springboard icons? I want to build a small animation where a ball is jumping over t开发者_JAVA百科he icons over other apps.

Here's an example what I want to achieve.

Possible?

No, this isn't possible on iOS with the official SDK.

Move to Android? No, i dont think iOS can w/o jailbreak.

Begs question - ios5? Whats gonna happen there? Maybe we will get widget framework, hopefully at a minimum something for the lock screen.

If you just wanted the effect you could have the user take a screenshot of their homescreen and use that in the animation, but thats the only way you could do that in the official SDK.