https://github.com/arg0s/iOSInstalledApps

Utility functions to fetch installed apps on iOS by a combination of reading running processes & investigating custom URL schemes implemented.
https://github.com/arg0s/iOSInstalledApps

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Utility functions to fetch installed apps on iOS by a combination of reading running processes & investigating custom URL schemes implemented.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/arg0s/iOSInstalledApps
• Owner: arg0s
• License: bsd-2-clause
• Created: 2012-09-02T10:37:41.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-04-17T02:59:22.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-08T02:33:29.451Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Objective-C
• Size: 130 KB
• Stars: 106
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 23
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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#iOSInstalledApps

Utility functions to fetch installed apps on iOS by a combination of reading running processes & investigating custom URL schemes implemented.

## Background

Unlike Android & other mobile operating systems, iOS doesnt let you query for a list of installed applications. Developers have had to resort to circumventing this by a few techniques:

* reading running processes & maintaining a map to their iTunes data

* examining whether it is possible to launch an installed iOS app via the custom URL schemes that are publicly available, and thereby infer that it is installed

This repo provides a few utility functions that you can use for both these approaches in conjunction with your dataset mappings (not included).

## Usage

Refer to a simple example in the App Delegate