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A.G.
A.G.

Reputation: 2119

Install apps on iPhone from Windows programmatically

Is there an official API to communicate with iPhone from Windows programmatically?

There are some apps that do that, but they require iTunes to be installed.

I wonder how one can develop such an app.

Does one have to reverse engineer something? I heard Apple doesn't like 3rd party apps and wants everybody to use iTunes (and therefore doesn't provide any API).

Is it illegal to develop such an app?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 211

Answers (2)

Igor Skochinsky
Igor Skochinsky

Reputation: 25278

libmobiledevice has an API for that.

instproxy_error_t instproxy_install (instproxy_client_t client, 
        const char * pkg_path, 
        plist_t client_options, 
        instproxy_status_cb_t status_cb, 
        void * user_data 
    )    

Install an application on the device.

Upvotes: 1

Seki
Seki

Reputation: 11465

There is a plugin for the TotalCommander file manager called t-pot that allows browsing the contents of an iPod Touch or iPhone. Looking at its code hosted on google code could help.

Upvotes: 1

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