Keychain sharing between two apps

Question

Apple has provided Generic Keychain sample which is written in Swift, I want to go ahead with Objective-C.

I have enabled keychain sharing in both the apps and on canOpenUrl I am able to invoke application B from A, now I want to share username and password from app A to app B. App ID is same for both the applications.

I have looked at various tutorials also don't want to use any third party project. Could not came to know how to pass the parameter from app A to app B.

Answer 1

Enable Keychain sharing:

1. Turn on the Keychain Sharing capability.
2. Select developer team
3. Specify Keychain group name to something meaningful (for example testKeychainG1)
4. Open .entitlements file and replace $(AppIdentifierPrefix) with your APP ID (for example AB123CDE45.testKeychainG1)

Accessing Keychain (Retrieve shared items):

let itemKey = "Item Key"

let keychainAccessGroupName = "AB123CDE45.testKeychainG1"


let query:[String:Any] = [
    kSecClass as String: kSecClassGenericPassword,
    kSecAttrAccount as String: itemKey,
    kSecReturnData as String: kCFBooleanTrue,
    kSecMatchLimit as String: kSecMatchLimitOne,
    kSecAttrAccessGroup as String: keychainAccessGroupName
]

var result: AnyObject?

let resultCodeLoad = withUnsafeMutablePointer(to: &result) {
    SecItemCopyMatching(query as CFDictionary, UnsafeMutablePointer($0))
}

if resultCodeLoad == noErr {
    if let result = result as? Data,
        let keyValue = NSString(data: result,
                                encoding: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue) as? String {

        // Found successfully
        print(keyValue)
    }
} else {
    print("Error: \(resultCodeLoad)")
}