iOSInstalledApps 0.2.0

Maintained by Unclaimed.

You want to add pod 'iOSInstalledApps', '~> 0.2' similar to the following to your Podfile:

target 'MyApp' do
  pod 'iOSInstalledApps', '~> 0.2'
end

Then run a pod install inside your terminal, or from CocoaPods.app.

Alternatively to give it a test run, run the command:

pod try iOSInstalledApps

iOSInstalledApps 0.2.0

By
Aravind Krishnaswamy

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