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EwyynTomato
EwyynTomato

Reputation: 4077

How do I define my app home screen group name?

I'd like to define a default folder name on home screen for my apps (which are Ad Hoc distributed), such as the default apps when they are dragged to ("Productivity", "Utilities", "Games", "Navigation"):

Default predefined folder name

Instead of default name "Folder":

Default folder name

How can I achieve this?

Edit:

I tried adding LSApplicationCategoryType to Info.plist, but that doesn't seem to affect anything.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 965

Answers (1)

Guntis Treulands
Guntis Treulands

Reputation: 4762

I think this will work only on AppStore versions. I tested with bunch of my Ad-hoc releases and their AppStore releases. - For ad-hoc releases - "Folder" name appears. For AppStore versions - App, which is moved onto other app - it's category name is used. (In case Ad-hoc is moved onto AppStore app, then AppStore app's category is used).

Anyways, I checked out that LSApplicationCategoryType https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/general/Reference/InfoPlistKeyReference/Articles/LaunchServicesKeys.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009250-SW8

Did You use for example for "Education" - public.app-category.education ?

Either way - it might not even be intended to work on debug/ad-hoc releases as stated in the same page:

LSApplicationCategoryType (String - OS X) is a string that contains the UTI corresponding to the app’s type. The App Store uses this string to determine the appropriate categorization for the app. Table 2 lists the supported UTIs for apps.

...which sounds like, that this value is used by App-Store, to correctly set Applications category, which then is used to categorize applications on springboard.

So I guess, this will work only when App is downloaded from App Store.

Upvotes: 2

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