Finding list of installed apps on iphone

Question

Is it possible to programatically find out name of all apps installed on my iOS device ? Is there any API available for same ?

Thanks for the help

Answer 1

You can use runtime objective c to get the list of all installed apps. It will give you an array of LSApplicationProxy objects.

Following is a code snippet that prints Name of all applications installed in your device.

Class LSApplicationWorkspace_class = objc_getClass("LSApplicationWorkspace");
NSObject* workspace = [LSApplicationWorkspace_class performSelector:NSSelectorFromString(@"defaultWorkspace")];
NSMutableArray *array = [workspace performSelector:NSSelectorFromString(@"allApplications")];

NSMutableArray *mutableArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (id lsApplicationProxy in array) {
    if(nil != [lsApplicationProxy performSelector:NSSelectorFromString(@"itemName")]){
        [mutableArray addObject:[lsApplicationProxy performSelector:NSSelectorFromString(@"itemName")]];
    }
}
NSLog(@"********* Applications List ************* : \n %@",mutableArray);

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