Finding list of installed apps on iphone

Question

Is it possible to programatically find out name of all apps installed on my iOS device ? Is there any API available for same ?

Thanks for the help

Answer 1

No, on iOS applications has no access to information of/about other applications due to sandboxed environment.

Answer 2

Yes it is possible to get list of all installed app

-(void) allInstalledApp
{    
    NSDictionary *cacheDict;

    NSDictionary *user;

    static NSString *const cacheFileName = @"com.apple.mobile.installation.plist";

    NSString *relativeCachePath = [[@"Library" stringByAppendingPathComponent: @"Caches"] stringByAppendingPathComponent: cacheFileName];

    NSString *path = [[NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent: @"../.."] stringByAppendingPathComponent: relativeCachePath];

    cacheDict    = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile: path];

    user = [cacheDict objectForKey: @"User"];

    NSDictionary *systemApp=[cacheDict objectForKey:@"System"];
}   

systemApp Dictionary contains the list of all system related app and user Dictionary contains other app information.

Answer 3

Not from the device. However, from the desktop you could peek into the iTunes library.