I looked at lot of different posts in SO and others blogs,it looks blocking calls in iOS is possible. I followed the below url and tried in my project, but it is not blocking the calls. I tested in my iOS8 device.
Block calls and sms in Iphone iOS while application running
For only testing purpose you should use quite old Apple devices that are not well protected. I will definitely recommend to use old iPhone 4 with Jailbreak in it. I was using iOS 6 to test hide API and code examples that are presented in this article is working fine.
Nevertheless CoreTelephony APIs are not working on iOS 7 and iOS 8 as well so you should investigate more to find out with API you should use.
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I am having this weird issue while developing an app on iOS 10. Since I started testing it on my iPhone, other apps I have such as Facebook, Slack, LINE or Google Photos get randomly signed out quite often, like multiple times a day.
Could this be related to my app at all? It uses UserDefaults and Keychain to handle user log in/out within my app. I have a feeling that those two might have something to do with this but I'm not so sure.
I read that this was an issue when iOS 7 first came out but I found nothing regarding iOS 10. So I think it's just me.
Thank you for your help.
Unless there's some obscure bug in iOS 10, there is nothing you can do in your iOS app that can affect any other app. That's the whole point of sandboxing. One app can't mess with another.
This assumes your iOS device is not jailbroken and you are only using public APIs in your app. If you are using private APIs or developing on a jailbroken device, then anything is possible.
Preface: there are questions (some good, some bad) already in existance on StackOverflow about webRTC support on various browsers and platforms, including iOS. However I couldn't find anything definitive that was more recent than ~2012, and this is a rapidly-changing field.
I'm working on a browser-based webapp that uses webRTC for minimal-latency peer-to-peer data transfer (not for audio/video, unlike most applications it would seem - all I need is DataChannel).
I hit a snag when I started testing the data-transfer part of the project and discovered that iOS devices still don't natively support this in their built-in browsers (despite some recent rumors).
Bowser is a free open-source browser App for iOS that purports to support webRTC on iOS. The problem is that when I try to open the app, it simply crashes and closes. I've tested this on an iPhone 5 and 5s. Googling has failed to turn up alternatives - even Chrome for iOS doesn't currently support webRTC it seems.
My questions:
1) Are there alternative browsers (even iOS-version restricted) that are currently supporting webRTC, or is there anything promising coming down the pipeline?
2) Does Bowser actually work (webRTC) on iOS devices where it doesn't crash immediately upon launch?
3) What strategies have other people used to work around this limitation?
As of iOS 11, WebRTC is now supported in Safari: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/releasenotes/General/WhatsNewInSafari/Articles/Safari_11_0.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014305-CH13-SW1
Check out crosswalk project ( https://crosswalk-project.org )
This Provides runtime of Chromium engine for native support in older devices.
1) Are there alternative browsers (even iOS-version restricted) that are currently supporting webRTC, or is there anything promising coming down the pipeline?
Answer:
There is a Browser called Bowser that supports webRTC.
2) Does Bowser actually work (webRTC) on iOS devices where it doesn't crash immediately upon launch?
Answer:
It's not crashing as of now.But I couldn't successfully test with anything so far.I have raised an issue about it
3) What strategies have other people used to work around this limitation?
Answer:
Apple is yet to support WebRTC in Webkit so as of now the only way would be develop a native or Hybrid app that would support the unsupported WebRTC APIs.
You can develop a hybrid app powered by OpenWebRTC or cordova-plugin-iosrtc
I don't understand how I can start communication session with specific robot or with all connected (available) robots. I have "availableRobots"=2 and array with both robots. What next? In official SDK for iOS I don't see any method similar to "openConnectionWithSpecificRobot".
Currently the iOS SDK only supports communication with one robot. Prior to iOS 6 Apple only allowed communication with one device of any type. This was supposedly fixed in an iOS 6 update, although we have not had the chance to test this yet. If so we hope to release an update at some point in the future that will support communication with multiple robots on iOS.
It seems like all large downloads timeout on iOS6 using ASIHTTPRequest.
Does anybody know of any forks that have updated this library for iOS6. I love this library and really do not want to have to switch.
EDIT:
This issue is not specific to ASIHTTPRequest. Upon testing FSNetwork, MKNetwork, AFNetwork, and NSURLConnection they all fail.
A sample project can be downloaded from here:
https://github.com/BLamy/NetworkTest
It must be built to an actual device running iOS6 (I used an iPad2 unsure if that makes a difference).
I was having the issue with uploading. The solution I found was to set the cachePolicy of the urlRequest to NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalAndRemoteCacheData. (There were a few other networking bugs I encountered too which only occurred on iPhone 5.)
Are you getting the timeouts on apps that are build against iOS SDK 5.x running on iOS 6 (ie your old builds. If you don't have access to an old build, how about the one you have existing on the App Store?).
Or are your symptoms ONLY occurring for new builds with Xcode 4.5 against iOS SDK 6.0? If the latter, and you really don't want to give ASI up, (and you don't want to implement any of the new iOS functionality), then you could consider building against iOS SDK 5.x instead of 6.0. See my answer here for instructions.
If you need to implement new iOS 6 features, or iOS 6 actually broke your implementation of ASIHTTP (built against iOS SDK 5.x), then you should consider other networking options. It's been over a year since Ben advised developers to seek other options, with good reason.
iOS6 has serious problem related to Wi-Fi. We use ASIHTTPREQUEST. We find small file downloads work fine, in some case large file(10MB above) downloads too, but after the download, we keep the device idle for a minute, again you try to add operation to the queue. The app crashes.
Initially, we got many Network unavailable alerts, though the internet was available. Later, we changed the Wi-Fi setting security mode WAP to NONE. Then for sometime we did not find the network unavailable error, as well downloads were ok..
However, when the server itself becomes loaded, the connectivity and download becomes to halt at mid of the progress. I have noticed this behavior, even in native SDK facebook app.
The simulators work very fine, even the devices like iPad1, iO5.0, iPhone 4 with iOS5.0, the never crash.
I sum up..Apple half baked the iOS6.0, may be the iOS6.0 is suitable only for iPhone 5,the new antenna structure. Unless Apple fix the iOS6.0 issue may not be solved.
I am trying to find whether the private APIs listed at: http://code.google.com/p/iphone-wireless/wiki/Apple80211Functions still work with iOS 4.0 and above. I am trying to turn the wifi ON, scan the networks available and latch on to one of the networks. I am not going to put the application in appStore and it is just an experiment. I found many applications pulled down from the appStore but they seem to have been developed on iOS versions less than 3.0. I would also like to get an example if possible.
Please Help.
I needed the same thing as you, and after some research I must say that starting from iOS 5 it is possible to scan the network list using private API on a jailbroken device only. This blog post states the following:
Last year Apple has blocked wifi scanners from App Store, however till iOS5 it was still available for private usage via WiFiManager bundle.
In iOS5, WifiManager bundle no more exists however 80211 functions are still available via IPConfiguration bundle.
The API you linked provides an open-source tool Stumbler which seems like something you were seeking. The tool is claimed to work under iOS 5.
Tried stumbler for iOS5 via linking to framework
/System/Library/SystemConfiguration/IPConfiguration.bundle/IPConfiguration
I could link to Apple80211Open, Apple80211BindToInterface, Apple80211Scan. However, I only receive empty WiFi scan results on jailbroken iPhone4S / iOS 5.1.1
The folks from WifiFofum did a good job and have a app on cydia which runs on JB iOS 5.1.1 and does an excellent job for scanning WiFi networks (BSSID, link level, SSID, channels, ...).