if ( NSClassFromString(#"ASIdentifierManager"))
{
limitAdTracking = !ASIdentifierManager.sharedManager.advertisingTrackingEnabled;
idfa = [ASIdentifierManager.sharedManager.advertisingIdentifier UUIDString];
userDict[#"limit_ad_tracking"] = #(limitAdTracking);
}
I have SDK. This sdk uses in different apps. But sometimes My SDK doesn`t get idfa. It can happen in one version of application (one time I get, one time - nope). What can happen?
If your App was not linked against AdSupport.framework, then NSClassFromString(#"ASIdentifierManager") will return nil and you'll never get the IDFA.
Is it possible you added/removed AdSupport.framework between the versions that exhibit different behavior?
Related
I tried to submit my app to AppStore but got rejected with motivation:
Your app uses or references the following non-public APIs:
UIScrollViewDelayedTouchesBeganGestureRecognizer, UIScrollViewPanGestureRecognizer
The only place where I can find this strings is in MHVideoPhotoGallery pod. There it using like:
if ([otherGestureRecognizer isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(#"UIScrollViewDelayedTouchesBeganGestureRecognizer")]|| [otherGestureRecognizer isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(#"UIScrollViewPanGestureRecognizer")] ) {
return YES;
}
I created an issue for this (https://github.com/mariohahn/MHVideoPhotoGallery/issues/156), but don't get response. But this is popular pod project, if Apple rejected apps because of it - would not it be widely known? What can I do with this situation?
I have an app in private which need to scan all applications and schemes and get it by using private API LSApplicationWorkspace defaultWorkspace with others functional method, such as privateURLSchemes allInstalledApplications. This app works good and I can get all I need from the private API before iOS 11, but in this version I only got some warning and an empty array. It seems Apple limits private API that developer can't use in private in iOS 11.
So my question is what alternative ways can achieve my need in iOS 11?
UPDATE: This method does not work on iOS 12 - entitlement required
There is a way to find if a specific application is installed, its not a list of all apps like allInstalledApplications returned but its useful to query for a specific bundle id
Here is an example, the method receives bundle id and return true if it's installed on the device:
- (BOOL)checkIfAppInstalled: (NSString*)bundleID {
dlopen("/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileContainerManager.framework/MobileContainerManager",RTLD_NOW);
Class MBAppManager = NSClassFromString(#"MCMAppDataContainer");
NSError * error ;
id contentApp = [MBAppManager performSelector:#selector(containerWithIdentifier:error:) withObject:bundleID withObject:error];
return contentApp != nil;
}
Private API is just that—private API. Using it is completely unsupported, and as such, you cannot rely on a private API continuing to work in future versions of the OS.
In addition, I would be highly surprised if an app that used private API were able to get into the App Store, since it's one of the things Apple's reviewers scan for.
In enterprise you can use Apple Mobile Device Management (MDM) Protocol ManagedApplicationList commands to get the status of managed applications
From this post. From the comment of #ovo under the original question, it seems works.
Using MobileContainerManager.framework it's possible to check if an app is installed by using bundle id.
//If the device is iOS11
if ([[UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersion floatValue] >= 11.0) {
NSBundle *container = [NSBundle bundleWithPath:#"/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileContainerManager.framework"];
if ([container load]) {
Class appContainer = NSClassFromString(#"MCMAppContainer");
id test = [appContainer performSelector:#selector(containerWithIdentifier:error:) withObject:bundleId withObject:nil];
NSLog(#"%#",test);
if (test) {
return YES;
} else {
return NO;
}
}
return NO;
} else {
//Usual way
}
i got same Apple Reject.
Apple Says
Your app uses or references the following non-public APIs:
LSApplicationWorkspace
The use of non-public APIs is not permitted on the App Store because
it can lead to a poor user experience should these APIs change.
Continuing to use or conceal non-public APIs in future submissions of
this app may result in the termination of your Apple Developer
account, as well as removal of all associated apps from the App Store.
Solutions
To find out which library or code is causing this problem use the below code snipped.
1-) Open the terminal in macbook (cmd+ space) and than write terminal
2-) change the project directory with the below code
cd /Users/emreg/Documents/{your project url}
3-) To search appropriate word
grep -r LSApplicationWorkspace .
grep -r allApplications .
in my case, Blesh SDK has included LSApplicationWorkspace and allApplications keyword which is not permitted by Apple. When i upteded SDK, my problem is solved.
i hope, this answer will help someone.
Recently I submitted my app on AppStore with a method setting badgecolor of tabbaritem.
[[[AppDelegate globalDelegate].tabBarController viewControllers] objectAtIndex:1].tabBarItem.badgeColor = kTabBarBadgeColor;
This badgeColor came in iOS 10 only and my app supported iOS 8 and above. I had no idea about it and the app got approved. Now, I have to resubmit my app with fixing this issue.
I want to know if there is a way to find out such cases where methods get deprecated or are visible in specific OS versions only.
By changing target of Xcode project you can see errors & warnings while building.
If you need more info,
You can visible all API changes like Added,Modified & Deprecated variants in Apple documentation
it will give you searching options for both Swift & Objective C
Searching UITabBarItem Instance Property badgeColor. it gives API changes are none.Supporting SDK's version
SDKs
iOS 10.0+
tvOS 10.0+
Searching finishedSelectedImage instance method of UITabBarItem.
SDK
iOS 5.0–7.0 Deprecated
Deprecated Use selectedImage with UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal
instead.
when validating my app, I get an error saying
"Improper Advertising Identifier Usage. Your app contains the Advertising Identifier [IDFA] API but you have not respecting the Limit Ad Tracking setting in iOS."
I have check "Yes" on the Prepare for Upload page for Advertising Identifier.I am using revmob ads and flurry analytics in my app(COCOS2D-X project).How to fix this issue, I have tried a lot but not succeed.I have use below code into appdelegate but no luck.
- (NSString *)identifierForAdvertising
{
if([[ASIdentifierManager sharedManager] isAdvertisingTrackingEnabled])
{
NSUUID *IDFA = [[ASIdentifierManager sharedManager] advertisingIdentifier];
return [IDFA UUIDString];
}
return nil;
}
this IDFA issue was still happening for me today. I tracked it down to the GoogleAnalytics pod, so I just updated the pod to the latist version by specifying pod 'GoogleAnalytics-iOS-SDK', '~> 3.0.7' in the podfile which fixed the issue for me. the version was previously unspecified but was using 3.0.3.
Around April 26th Apple changed their IDFA scanning procedures. Not only do you have to check the appropriate checkboxes after you click on the "prepare for upload", but your code (or any other third party library that you have must use IDFA by using the class directly.
Someone suggested to do this:
"you can do that by replacing direct refs to ASIdentifierManager with NSClassFromString(#"ASIdentifierManager")"
DO NOT load this class using this approach! New scanning procedure will look specifically for this and if it is found instead of direct references - Apple seems to assume that there is some strange usage of the tracking identifier. I can't say I disagree with that decision.
It may not be easy to find exactly which library is at fault. Latest AdMob SDK for example is using the class directly and is NOT the source of a problem.
One way you can find out which library is the source of the problem is to remove AdSupport.Framework from your project and see which libraries fail to link. Those libraries are NOT the problem. See if you have other advertising libraries that do not require you to include AdSupport.Framework - those are most likely the culprit.
It sounds a bit counter intuitive, but the direct referencing is not the problem, dynamic (weak) loading of that class is.
Hope this helps someone - we were pulling our hair out until we found what was the source of the issue.
Looks like Apple has reverted the changes now. All apps are going through just as usual again :)
While uploading app-file to itunesconnect the XCode says: improper advertising identifier [IDFA] usage...etc.
But I do not use this feature in my project. I've tried to find any
[[[ASIdentifierManager sharedManager] advertisingIdentifier] UUIDString]
calling. Futhermore, I'm just fixing a bug of my app, I hadn't included such features since my first release. The first release didn't said about IDFA-usage.
Well, this error happened about 15 days ago and it wasn't clear what is the reason till Apple released the Xcode update the same day and everything went smooth after that. Again, today I get the same message though I tried to upload the same builds for an app which I submitted 8 days ago.
I think we have just to wait for a few hours and see what will happen.
EDIT: Here is a link to show people complain about it at that time and how it was solved without doing anything: LINK
UPDATE: For anyone who uses PlayHaven ads, this may be helpful to avoid this error. Comment the 2 following sections:
In the file PHAdRequest.m (Lines 35-44)
/* if (![PHAPIRequest optOutStatus] && [ASIdentifierManager class])
{
NSUUID *uuid = [[ASIdentifierManager sharedManager] advertisingIdentifier];
NSString *uuidString = [uuid UUIDString];
if (0 < [uuidString length])
{
theIdentifiers[#"ifa"] = uuidString;
}
}*/
In PHAPIRequest.m (Lines 379-383):
/* if ([ASIdentifierManager class])
{
NSNumber *trackingEnabled = [NSNumber numberWithBool:[[ASIdentifierManager sharedManager] isAdvertisingTrackingEnabled]];
[combinedParams setValue:trackingEnabled forKey:#"tracking"];
}*/
This is a temporary workaround till PlayHaven updates their SDK.
I had provided this answer on another similar question and it seems to have been of help & I think my answer is particularly suited also to this question...
I had a similar error in an update to an app that had previously updated fine and then a few days ago was causing an error, after Apple made a recent change. I wasn't using any ads but do have Facebook integration (which needs the AdSupport framework). I believe, after searching the net, that Facebook uses the advertising ID for its own analysis purposes so, even though I'm not including ads in my app, the validation and upload processes through xCode were failing with the error "Your app contains the Advertising Identifier [IDFA] API..."
I searched and found that I needed to download the Facebook SDK source code, update the FBUtility.m to remove the references to the advertisingID but, in fact, I simply needed to:
1) download the source code for the latest SDK, which I did from here: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk (I downloaded the zip file from github to my documents folder)
2) build the framework - open the terminal. Use cd documents at the command prompt, then use this command: sudo scripts/build_framework.sh, which will run the build_framework.sh script that is in the scripts subfolder within the downloaded Facebook SDK folder
3) Remove the old FacebookSDK.framework from your Xcode project and add the new one (in my case, I navigated to documents/facebook-ios-sdk/build & choose the FacebookSDK.framework folder
4) Archive the project and it should (it was in my case) be good to upload
Hope that helps someone along the way - I've been at this for days!!
Simply upload your binary as you've been doing this while, and broadly classify IDFA in two categories:
publisher: You use third-party ad-networks library to display ad. Choose the 1st option in IDFA -> "Serve advertisements within the app". You're a publisher since you show ads, but do not perform advertising for your own app.
Advertiser: You use third-party libraries to track conversions for your app, as well as track 'goals' in your app. You directly do not show ads in your app. Choose the 2nd & 3rd option in IDFA -> "Attribute this app installation to a previously served ad". AND "Attribute an action taken within this app to a previously served advertisement".
Mixed: You track conversions for your app, as well as display ads in your app. Choose all three options.
In case of PlayHaven, setup PH_USE_AD_SUPPORT to 0 will disable the AdSupport framework.
PHConstants.h
/**
* By default, PlayHaven will require the AdSupport framework. Projects using a version of
* Xcode older than 4.5 may define \c PH_USE_AD_SUPPORT to be 0.
*
* #note By disabling the AdSupport framework, the SDK will not be able to collect the IFA
**/
#ifndef PH_USE_AD_SUPPORT
#define PH_USE_AD_SUPPORT 1
#endif
Work for me to fix "improper advertising identifier" when submit.