I would love to use these hooks for a jailbreak iPhone app. This would allow the app to request to be backgrounded, providing that Backgrounder is installed. Seeing previous questions on StackOverflow, I think I'm not the only one who could use this.
What are the steps required? Do I need to extract the private SpringBoard api's, or do I even need to follow procedures for compiling MobileSubstrate pluginss?
I would prefer creating a minimal header file that allows me to send this message to Backgrounder, but I have basically no idea how to go about this. Suggestions are very welcome!
Backgrounder uses MobileSubstrate to hook some functions on SprindBoard and UIApplication, the problem with iOS 4.2 (I don't have a 4.1 version to try it) is that you can ignore the applicationSuspend event but after 10 secs springboard will kill your application.
I've been looking for the same thing you're asking and until now I know:
- I can use MobileSubstrate to hook SpringBoard's functions like Backgrounder does
OR
- There must be a way to tell Springboard your app is like Safari or it's being debugged.
I just need to find that thing that makes MobileSafari different. But if you want try using MobileSubstrate, you can check backgrounder on github and:
http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-ipod-touch-sdk-development-discussion/728944-tutorial-how-compile-mobile-substrate-extension-xcode.html
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i would love to build a auto-start with OS app which runs in IOS background(like a daemon) and when the phone changed its location the app send some information(userid,GPS,time......)to a web server immediately, in addition to,i want my app has no icon and users can not easily find it is on running or easily delete it. so i just wondering if these is some location-change notification i can hook into so that i can perform my code? anyone give me a good idea? i dont want put my app on appstore instead of i packaged it in deb,so i can use any private api or other non-official methods....
You can use CoreLocation native framework.we can access the current location of the user/device dynamically. follow the link for instructions coreLocation tutorials
According to Apple's Documents and guidelines, I don't think an app can exist without icon. The SDK doesn't have this feature as well. And no private API will be accepted into App Store. However, you can post your project on unofficial AppStores for jailbroken phones.
I would like to know my iPhone places using Xcode like this app.I know all the details related to my iPhones.Kindly help me how to do this.
The actual Find My iPhone implementation details are certainly private and/or using private Apple frameworks (especially as it's a feature that users have to explicitly turn on and off via Settings and there's no user-facing app), but you could use CoreLocation in an app that you create that runs in the background, reporting your location to some server that your own.
I also found an alternative app named iLostMyi, but this requires a jailbroken phone.
Is it possible to write application via cydia to run in background like appsyn? Work with jailbreak device.
Without Backgrounder(Cydia)
Or is it possible to hide icon form springboard and hide arrow(Corelocation)?
i want to run my app like run plist in background.
please help me
Thank(Advance)
Yes, it is possible. In fact, I originally wrote Backgrounder for exactly this purpose; to act as a model for others to use.
You must do two things:
Make certain that you app installs to /Applications/ (and not /var/mobile/Applications).
Create your own UIApplication subclass, and add the following method:
- (void)applicationSuspend {} // Do nothing
However, if you are targetting iOS 4.0 or newer, you should consider using one of Apple's provided multitasking methods.
Also, depending on what you are developing, it might be wiser to create a daemon (or daemon/client) instead.
I'm wondering if there are some ways to check if my application is hacked?
I mean, I don't really want to prevent my application from hacking, but I would like to list all iPhone (UUID) that use my hacked application.
Check out mtiks. They do free piracy monitoring, but you'll have to re-release your app to the appstore. If you don't have anything setup currently, you're not going to be able to tell who's using it.
Check to see if encryption was removed from you app bundle or any other changes were made.
If you don't prevent your app from being cracked by any different behavior, such as not working, this makes your detection code much harder to find.
From the recent news from the Apple, I learned that one has to use C/C++/Objective-C for iPhone App. Accordingly, it's not possible to use MacPython or similar to make iPhone App.
But as the python/ruby interpreter itself is written in C, isn't it OK to make python/ruby interpreter for iPhone to run the scripts on iphone?
Is this possible? Does Apple support this? Or does someone implemented this? Or, the user should hack to do this?
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I don't distribute the python script, I just use it for my own utility. Even in this case, do I need a jailbreak? I mean, can I compile the python with Xcode to get the binary? Or, I expect someone has already done this.
Apple recently changed their policy on this and allowed a python interpreter App called Python for iOS to be put up on the App store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/python-for-ios/id485729872?mt=8&uo=4
Full disclosure: I am the sole creator/developer of Python for iOS.
At present not at all. Apple licenses forbid to run any intepreter on it, and this is even before iPhone OS 4. You can make an intepreter by jailbreaking it but it won't be official and you won't be able to distribute it.
I don't distribute the python script, I just use it for my own utility. Even in this case, do I need a jailbreak?
No, you don't. You can compile a Python interpreter and run it on your own iPhone, as long as you have a developer license.
Maybe you can use ad-hoc distribution (according to Apple, you can distribute your app to 100 devices by yourself, outside of the app store) ?
See here