I made an app for parents to put on Their kids phones but need a way to protect against deletion. Any ideas?
There are no ways to do this short of installing a second app to monitor the first. Optionally you could have a web service that requires the app to phone-home at a predefined interval, but that quickly gets more complex than you were likely hoping for.
If the app is deployed via a BES, you can use appropriate application control policies to prevent deletion.
Related
Assuming you created an app that users have downloaded that is just awful and you neither want to fix it nor have anyone continue to use it so that it won't tarnish your brand, is there a way to end its life on user's iOS devices?
Curious if there is some store setting to force it to work with earlier versions of iOS and invalidates the current app, or code that would force an update that says the app is no longer available.
As many have confirmed, there is no way to remove an application from someone's device. For these cases though, many companies have servers that the application sends a request to on launch, that returns either a need to update the app, a message, or to tell the user the app has been discontinued and that the app cannot be used anymore, stopping them from using the app from there on.
The last use case might be useful to you, but of course this is a proactive solution, not a reactive one.
My app has an UNNotificationServiceExtension object that exists in a separate project, which handles the receipt and processing of notifications.
I'd like to be able to trigger an event in the main app under certain circumstances, whether the app is active or not. Is this possible? If so, what mechanism would I use to achieve this?
If not, I'm worried that I'll have to use the main app to poll a shared data source when it's activated and respond to the data it reads.
Hmm.. after a bit of googling I found this:
Using URL Schemes to Communicate with Apps
This will allow me to communicate between apps.
I need to crate app, one of it is features to check if user is using Facebook or whats App during driving is it doable.
For privacy matters, Apple does not allow iOS apps to access other application's data, such as when the user enters them and other "sensitive" data of that sort. So, the simple answer is that you cannot do that. Another App's usage is undeterminable as of now on iOS.
Either way. Even if iOS apps are allowed to fetch data from other apps, you have to make sure your app is running on background and checking. iOS manage memory itself and kills app in background automatically. So the app is not practical. Plus if you constantly check the speed in background, the battery life will decrease.
But again on the first hand as other answers, your app does not allowed to access data. So this is not doable.
It is not possible , as apple does not allow iOS Apps fetching or accessing other apps data. Thanks
How can you trigger touch and type events outside of your app. I already have created a service that can collect certain data but I can't trigger clicks.
P. S. My requirement is to have a device cloud hosted on the internet and allow people to access them remotely
This is not possible. Apple would never allow such a huge security risk.
You misunderstand how Seetest works. Seetest requires access to your App's binary code, which it instruments:
https://docs.experitest.com/display/public/UFT/iOS+Applications
It then simulates user events by calling event handling methods, e.g. #IBAction handlers. It does not go to the low level that you want, because nothing can unless you violate Apple's usage rules.
EDIT
I was assuming you wanted to write an iOS App that could generate events outside of its sandbox. Instead I think you're referring to Instruments which is controlled by a host.
Because this is a general question, see if this gets you in the right direction:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/UsingtheAutomationInstrument/UsingtheAutomationInstrument.html
I have managed to do this using Appium java API. First launch a dummy app, then call driver.back() and from there, you will have full control
I have been asked to develop an app that will record and later "play back" touches and gestures onto another app running in the foreground.
From my experience and knowledge, this is not possible unless both apps are setup to send/receive data between them through notifications or other methods. Also, it would be a huge risk for apps and their data to be exposed to anybody.
I am 99% sure this is not possible, but was just curious if anyone else has come across something similar (or documentation that specifically states this is forbidden).
Nope not possible, no way no how, dont even try.
Expanded answer, if this runs on a jailbroken phone.......
Yes.... but good luck,
check Saurik's Veency code for this sort of functionality, it would have to be refactored signifcantly but basically it allows for virtualization of taps.
https://github.com/iceNuts/TouchTest
http://gitweb.saurik.com/veency.git
if you want to access another application in your iPhone ,you can set the url scheme parameter and so on.You can add callback in your url，then you can return back your application.
It's actually possible with facebook's idb:
https://github.com/facebook/idb/
As it stated:
Remote Automation. idb has a “companion” that runs on macOS and a python client and cli that runs anywhere. This enables scenarios such as a “Device Lab” within a Data Center or fanning out commands to large numbers of iOS Simulators.
As facebook stop support on WebDriverAgent, it's the best option we have right now