My app has been rejected by Apple for the following reason "Our team is aware that iHasApp is using publicly available APIs, however this specific implementation abuses canOpenURL: to detect all apps on a given device".So I start to look for another way to list all the installed app in the user's phone.So my questions are:
1/Are they some web apps which can detect the installed apps?
2/is it possible to detect apps using their icones?
If you implement a workaround, the chances are that Apple will still reject your app anyway.
Obtaining a list of applications installed on the phone is evidently disallowed. Apple has rejected apps using lots of methods to detect this:
- Your solution of "canOpenURL"
- This solution using private apis List of all apps installed on iOS device and their position on the Home Screen (Springboard)
- This (dated) answer using file path manipulation and private apis: get list of installed applications on iphone objective-c
