Get List of All Installed Application in iOS 8

Get list of all installed application in ios 8

try this.
it works,I've tested.

#include <objc/runtime.h>
Class LSApplicationWorkspace_class = objc_getClass("LSApplicationWorkspace");
NSObject* workspace = [LSApplicationWorkspace_class performSelector:@selector(defaultWorkspace)];
NSLog(@"apps: %@", [workspace performSelector:@selector(allApplications)]);

Get list of all installed apps

You can use this code snippet:

 #import "InstalledAppReader.h"

static NSString* const installedAppListPath = @"/private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist";

@interface InstalledAppReader()

-(NSArray *)installedApp;
-(NSMutableDictionary *)appDescriptionFromDictionary:(NSDictionary *)dictionary;

@end

@implementation InstalledAppReader

#pragma mark - Init
-(NSMutableArray *)desktopAppsFromDictionary:(NSDictionary *)dictionary
{
    NSMutableArray *desktopApps = [NSMutableArray array];

    for (NSString *appKey in dictionary)
    {
        [desktopApps addObject:appKey];
    }
    return desktopApps;
}

-(NSArray *)installedApp
{    
    BOOL isDir = NO;
    if([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath: installedAppListPath isDirectory: &isDir] && !isDir) 
    {
        NSMutableDictionary *cacheDict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile: installedAppListPath];
        NSDictionary *system = [cacheDict objectForKey: @"System"];
        NSMutableArray *installedApp = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:[self desktopAppsFromDictionary:system]];

        NSDictionary *user = [cacheDict objectForKey: @"User"]; 
        [installedApp addObjectsFromArray:[self desktopAppsFromDictionary:user]];

        return installedApp;
    }

    DLOG(@"can not find installed app plist");
    return nil;
}

@end

Listing all installed apps on iPhone Programmatically?

I use the AppList library myself to get a list of all installed apps. It uses private frameworks so it's also jailbreak-only. Check it out at https://github.com/rpetrich/AppList.

Update: @Nate is correct about this already being asked and answered. Check out: Get list of all installed apps

Get list of installed apps on iPhone

No, apps are sandboxed and Apple-accepted APIs do not include anything that would let you do that.

You can, however, test whether a certain app is installed:

• if the app is known to handle URLs of a certain type
• by using [[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"thisapp://foo"]

You can get a list of apps and URL schemes from here.

Finding list of installed apps on iphone

No, on iOS applications has no access to information of/about other applications due to sandboxed environment.

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