AppList | |
Cydia Package | |
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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 |
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ALSettingsPath | string | absolute file path to a settings file |
ALSettingsKeyPrefix | string | key prefix for the key for the data to be saved |
ALChangeNotification | string | notification string to be posted when a change happens |
ALAllowsSelection | bool | - |
ALSectionDescriptors | array | array of PSSpecifier-style dictionaries. |
To-Do: Add explanation of ALSectionDescriptors and ALAllowsSelection
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