I'm looking for a solution how to remove all installed iOS-Apps from a device. I'm working on a project for iOS-Security. For different analytical stuff on a jail-broken device it's necessary to automatically install a fat bunch of apps, perform all the tests and remove them afterwards to get free space for further applications. The auto installation and test-logic is already done. I only stuck with the apps-removing part.
User installed iOS-Apps are located in /var/mobile/Applications/.
Each application has its own randomly named directory e.g. 7654BE30-F438-42CE-98E0-B95264458C49/.
To proof whether an application is already installed or not my software checks out the com.apple.mobile.installation.plist in /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/
I've tried to remove the binaries of all applications in /var/mobile/Applications/ and there references in the com.apple.mobile.installation.plist. It seems like the iOS generates a new com.apple.mobile.installation.plist after each installation-process, so it makes no difference whether I remove all the entries out of com.apple.mobile.installation.plist or not. So if I would like to install an application which was already tested someday my software wouln't recognize that it's not installed yet, because it's still listed in com.apple.mobile.installation.plist.
I try to find out where the iOS stores all the information about a user installed application. Would appreciate any help or hint to find out the information. Thanks in advance!
Consider I'm working with an jailbroken iDevice, so everything is possible ;-)
