Re: collection of applications
Re: collection of applications
- Subject: Re: collection of applications
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:12:48 -0700
On Oct 10, 2013, at 3:42 AM, Rufat A. Abdullayev <email@hidden> wrote:
> One approach is to include apps in another app as a static library.
> Pls kindly share ideas about any other approaches?
I don’t think there are any other approaches:
* You can’t hide applications from the Springboard. All apps are visible.
* You can’t bundle the apps’ binaries inside your main app and start them up, because 3rd party apps can’t launch processes.
* You can’t bundle the apps as dynamic libraries and load them in your process, because 3rd party apps can’t contain their own dynamic libraries.*
—Jens
* Does anyone know the reason for this limitation? It seems arbitrary. I can understand why you can’t spawn processes (it prevents fork-bombs and similar attacks) but what damage can be caused by a bundled dylib? Sure, you can change your build process to make the dylib static, but I’ve had trouble with complex 3rd party code [i.e. the Erlang interpreter/runtime] that has a heavy dependency on dynamic library loading.
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