Access App Identifier Prefix programmatically

Question

How can I access the Bundle Seed ID/Team ID/App Identifier Prefix string programmatically? (These are all the same thing as far as I can tell).

I am using the UICKe

Answer 1

You can programmatically retrieve the Bundle Seed ID by looking at the access group attribute (i.e. kSecAttrAccessGroup) of an existing KeyChain item. In the code below, I look up for an existing KeyChain entry and create one if it doesn't not exist. Once I have a KeyChain entry, I extract the access group information from it and return the access group's first component separated by "." (period) as the Bundle Seed ID.

+ (NSString *)bundleSeedID {
    NSString *tempAccountName = @"bundleSeedID";
    NSDictionary *query = @{
        (__bridge NSString *)kSecClass : (__bridge NSString *)kSecClassGenericPassword,
        (__bridge NSString *)kSecAttrAccount : tempAccountName,
        (__bridge NSString *)kSecAttrService : @"",
        (__bridge NSString *)kSecReturnAttributes: (__bridge NSNumber *)kCFBooleanTrue,
    };
    CFDictionaryRef result = nil;
    OSStatus status = SecItemCopyMatching((__bridge CFDictionaryRef)query, (CFTypeRef *)&result);
    if (status == errSecItemNotFound)
        status = SecItemAdd((__bridge CFDictionaryRef)query, (CFTypeRef *)&result);
    if (status != errSecSuccess) {
        return nil;
    }
    status = SecItemDelete((__bridge CFDictionaryRef)query); // remove temp item
    NSDictionary *dict = (__bridge_transfer NSDictionary *)result;
    NSString *accessGroup = dict[(__bridge NSString *)kSecAttrAccessGroup];
    NSArray *components = [accessGroup componentsSeparatedByString:@"."];
    NSString *bundleSeedID = [[components objectEnumerator] nextObject];
    return bundleSeedID;
}