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Is it possible to hide other applications from our application?

I have a project in this have to hide other applications from my application.Means can I hide all application installed in my iphone device through a application ?

My question is that is it possible to hide other application and folders from our application ? please share any reference url for answer.

And I have a reference application KeepSafe in that user can hide pictures and video for securities

Solution

  • Short answer: No, it isn't.

    Slightly longer answer: Look up the Apple guide to how iOS apps are sandboxed here:

    http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/iphone/conceptual/iphoneosprogrammingguide/TheiOSEnvironment/TheiOSEnvironment.html

    You can't affect apps (or indeed much else) outside of your sandboxed environment unless there's an API to do so in one of the frameworks. As far as I know there is no such API to hide the icons of other apps.