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William Jockusch
William Jockusch

Reputation: 27335

script the released version of my iOS app?

I have a released app. I would like to add a help functionality that runs a few simple scripts. In other words, it programmatically highlights a button, presses it, highlights another button, presses it, and so on. Is there a sensible way to do that?

I'm thinking of something like UIAutomation. However the Apple doc linked above indicates that it requires that the app be code signed with a development profile. So it won't work in a released app.

I'm not going to add somebody's library to do this. So if the answer is that you can do it, but you have to either write a lot of code or link a third-party library, it will make more sense for me to hard-code everything in Objective C.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 72

Answers (1)

Daij-Djan
Daij-Djan

Reputation: 50119

first: Apple forbids App Store apps to interpret code so real scripting isn't allowed AFAICS but anyway:

technically: if you don't want a ready made 3rd party lib you'd need to write a lot of code (though a lot is relative ;)

=> if the 'scripts' are simple, hardcode them in objC.

Upvotes: 2

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