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Use the following guidelines to avoid your package or app being fragile or breaking at the slightest gust of wind, and to increase the chances of it being accepted by a community host.
Use the following guidelines to avoid your package or app being fragile and to increase the chances of it being accepted by a community host.


== Applications and Tweaks ==
== Applications and Tweaks ==
* Avoid referring to /var/mobile directly - use NSHomeDirectory() if your code is running as mobile! ("... say tomorrow apple ships iOS 6 and mobile is now named "phoneuser" or something equally insane...")
* <code>NSHomeDirectory()</code> doesn't guarantee that it will return <code>/var/mobile</code>, especially from within sandboxed processes.
* See [[MobileSubstrate Pitfalls]] for additional guidelines regarding tweaks.
** If your code is running as root, use extra caution when writing files that mobile can access - you might break the file's access permissions.
 
** App Store apps will return their sandbox data path from <code>NSHomeDirectory()</code>.
== Packages ==
* See [[Cydia Substrate Pitfalls]] for additional guidelines regarding tweaks.
* Do not create mobile-owned files and/or directories in your package. Stay out of mobile's home directory!
* You should consider the UDID deprecated like Apple has for some time, but if you need the device's UDID, use [[libMobileGestalt.dylib]].
** All package files are installed as root, and hour app should create any required files or directories under mobile's home directory.
* If you need to use singletons, see [[singleton pattern]] for advice.
* Do not use postinst/preinst/extrainst_ for file management purposes!
* If you need to respring from a tweak and you are targeting iOS 6 - 7, kill backboardd instead of SpringBoard. Killing SpringBoard has been known to cause some issues regarding the backlight. For iOS 8 and newer, if possible, use <code>[[FBSSystemService#Relaunch SpringBoard with relaunch URL|SBSRelaunchAction]]</code> or <code>-[HBRespringController respring]</code> from [https://github.com/hbang/libcephei/blob/master/HBRespringController.x libcephei] for a more appropriate way to respring. Simply killing the processes can destroy battery usage data (the feature since iOS 8).
** Do not store in the package directories that your app could make.
** Do not enforce permissions that your package could (and arguably should) contain.

Latest revision as of 03:42, 29 May 2021

Use the following guidelines to avoid your package or app being fragile and to increase the chances of it being accepted by a community host.

Applications and Tweaks

  • NSHomeDirectory() doesn't guarantee that it will return /var/mobile, especially from within sandboxed processes.
    • If your code is running as root, use extra caution when writing files that mobile can access - you might break the file's access permissions.
    • App Store apps will return their sandbox data path from NSHomeDirectory().
  • See Cydia Substrate Pitfalls for additional guidelines regarding tweaks.
  • You should consider the UDID deprecated like Apple has for some time, but if you need the device's UDID, use libMobileGestalt.dylib.
  • If you need to use singletons, see singleton pattern for advice.
  • If you need to respring from a tweak and you are targeting iOS 6 - 7, kill backboardd instead of SpringBoard. Killing SpringBoard has been known to cause some issues regarding the backlight. For iOS 8 and newer, if possible, use SBSRelaunchAction or -[HBRespringController respring] from libcephei for a more appropriate way to respring. Simply killing the processes can destroy battery usage data (the feature since iOS 8).