AppList

AppList
Cydia Package
Developer	Ryan Petrich
Package ID	applist
Latest Version	1.5.7

AppList is a library for fetching app information. As described on its package page in Cydia: "Allows developers to query the list of installed apps and provide a preferences pane based on that information. Exports displayIdentifier, displayName, icon and smallIcon via a remote messaging center so that it's easy to write a prefs pane that presents a list of apps."

How to use this library

Headers are available from Applist's GitHub project and the library can be found at /usr/lib/libapplist.dylib on a device where Applist is installed. If using Theos, place the headers in $THEOS/include/Applist, the library in $THEOS/lib/ and add applist to the XXX_LIBRARIES Makefile variable.

PreferenceLoader

Simple Approach

The common way to use AppList is via its PreferenceLoader (preferences) integration, by putting entries in a PreferenceLoader plist: AppListSample.plist.

Key	Type	Description	Default value
ALNavigationTitle	string	Navigation title.	The specifier name
ALSingleEnabledMode	bool	Switch between single and multiple row selection.	NO
ALSectionDescriptors	array	Array of PSSpecifier-style dictionaries.	-
ALLocalizationBundle	string	Absolute path to a localization bundle.	nil
ALSettingsDefaultValue	object	Default value.	-
ALSettingsPath	string	Absolute file path to a settings file.	-
ALSettingsKey	string	Key for the data to be saved.	-
ALSettingsKeyPrefix	string	Key prefix for the key for the data to be saved.	"ALValue-"
ALChangeNotification	string	Darwin notification string to be posted when a change happens.	-
ALAllowsSelection	bool	Enable row selection.	ALSingleEnabledMode value

To do: Add missing keys "listed" in the source code.

PreferenceBundle Approach

To get an array of applications' bundle identifiers and their display names sorted in alphabetical order by their display name:

ALApplicationList *apps = [ALApplicationList sharedApplicationList]; //list all the apps

NSArray *displayIdentifiers = [[apps.applications allKeys] sortedArrayUsingComparator:^NSComparisonResult(id obj1, id obj2) {
	return [[apps.applications objectForKey:obj1] caseInsensitiveCompare:[apps.applications objectForKey:obj2]];}]; //sort the apps by display name
[displayIdentifiers retain]; //make sure it doesn't disappear when you actually need to use it, if you only use it once, release it

To get the display identifier and icon for a specific app at index {X}, choose a size from this enum:

enum {
	ALApplicationIconSizeSmall = 29,
	ALApplicationIconSizeLarge = 59
};

And use the following snippet:

NSString *displayIdentifier = [displayIdentifiers objectAtIndex:{X}];
UIImage *icon = [apps iconOfSize:ALApplicationIconSizeSmall forDisplayIdentifier:displayIdentifier];

As seen in https://github.com/twodayslate/ListLauncher7

Retrieving Settings

To access the list of applications use the following, filtered by enabled apps:

This should be revised

NSMutableDictionary *plistDict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:plistpath];	
[[plistDict objectForKey:@"enable"] isEqualToString: @"YES"];

As seen in https://github.com/iceNuts/DisableNC-Switch

External links

• AppList on GitHub