get list of installed applications on iphone objective-c

Question

I have an application that needs to get the list of installed (other, maybe third party) applications on the device. How can it be done? Or can it be done at all?

Answer 1

-(NSArray *) installedApps
{
    BOOL isDir enter code here= NO;
    NSDictionary *cacheDienter code herect;
    NSDictionary *user;
    static NSString *const cacheFileName = @"com.apple.mobile.installation.plist";
    NSString *relativeCachePath = [[@"Library" stringByAppendingPathComponent: @"Caches"] stringByAppendingPathComponent: cacheFileName];
    NSString *path = [[NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent: @"../.."] stringByAppendingPathComponent: relativeCachePath];
    if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath: path isDirectory: &isDir] && !isDir) // Ensure that file exists
    {
        cacheDict    = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile: path];
        user = [cacheDict objectForKey: @"System"]; // Then all the user (App Store /var/mobile/Applications) apps
    }



    //NSLog(@"Installed Applications = %@",[user allKeys]); 
    //return [user allKeys];
    return nil;
}

this will give you the array of name of installed app using private API