I just found a great app that can let you control to display the apps on your child's iPhone/iPad. The name of the app is 'ParentKit'. I have understood what the app is doing but don't know how it is doing.
It is basically accessing the 'Restrictions' Settings in the ios default settings Menu by installing a Provisioning Profile on your child's iPhone with the help of web browser? Could someone explain how to do this in your own app?
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While opening the iOS app store link in a browser I am redirected to the mac app store app and the browser displayed only connecting text instead of displaying application information. It would be beneficial if anyone could guide me on this, and where I can make the change.
Note: The app is available on the app store and the app store account also is working
I found the issue that the Support Destination Option (Mac) was missing in the Xcode that's why the information of the app was not displayed in the browser.
I am trying to build an app that will allow users to see all pdf files that are on the device (in some kind of a list with a preview) [Regardless of which app it belongs to on the device, all should be shown]. Is there anyway to achieve this?
Sorry but this is not possible on an iOS device because of a feature called sandboxing. Apple does not allow an app to access the sandbox of another app. Each app sits inside a sandbox of its own. This is iOS's security feature. There is no way to go around this feature.
Reference - About App Sandbox
I've seen a lot of apps use the UIApplicationShortcutIconTypeShare application shortcut to share their app right from the home screen. It launches a UIActivityViewController right from the home screen without opening the app. How do you do that?
The OS adds the sharing menu item automatically to all apps downloaded from the App Store. Note that it doesn't add it to apps installed via Xcode or any third party distribution systems such as Buddybuild.
(Edit: the TestFlight version of your app will have "Send Beta Feedback" menu item instead of "Share...")
To address your question directly though, no, it is not possible (as of iOS 10 - may be possible in the future, who knows) for an app to present a view controller directly on the home screen. If it was possible, that would be a big security issue, because an app should not be able to access anything outside its own main window.
I am working on an app in which I need to open the device settings app on button client rather than app settings. I am using UIApplicationOpenSettingsURLString - but this opens the app settings page not the root level for device settings.
So, may I please get some suggestions on how to open the device settings app and may I also know is there any possibility to open the wi-fi settings page in the device settings programmatically.
You con only open the app-settings as you mentioned above.
If it would would it would also be listed in the documentation:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIApplication_Class/#//apple_ref/doc/constant_group/Settings_Launch_URL
Even Apps like GoPro or Twitter just give instructions how to enter the settings rather then linking directly.
My app needs feature to open iPhone/iPad "Mail, contacts, Calendars" settings panel and automatically scroll to view default calendar settings row. Any sample or idea?
I will put it under the IBAction.
The URL scheme for programmatically launching Settings.app to a particular settings panel was briefly exposed (though I'm not sure if it was documented) in iOS 5. However, the capability has been suppressed for third-party apps in iOS 5.1. As it stands, there is currently no way to do this from a third-party app on the latest version of the OS - at least, not in a way that won't get your app rejected from the App Store. There's likely a jailbreak way to do this, but I don't dabble in that, so I wouldn't know.