How Custom Without Jailbreaking?

[stillen]

I have no intention of putting this app on the store, just want to get that out of the way.


I am a paid developer and I don't want to jailbreak my device but I want to see if any of those type features could be used without jailbreaking my phone. I figure I could still test them on my phone, just not submit them to the app store.

In particular, I was looking at hooking into springboard or overwriting the applicationdidclose/didenterbackground calls. My goal is kiosk myself in the app. There are a ton of options to do this once you jailbreak. That's not my goal here.

I have found a way to do this kiosk thing, but it is buggy. Basically the app reloads itself once the square button is pressed. So the animation of the app closing and then reoppening happens. I like to avoid this completely and just have nothing happen.

I can't really get a definite answer or any starting point to look into. From googling around I have heard of dumping springboard headers or including them as a framework to trying to compile dylibs or trying to sign mobile substrance into my app. I haven't gotten much farther then those ideas because there no real documentation out there on anything like this.

Any help would be appreciate as well, I could share what I have done already and maybe someone can help me extend that out.

[jonusx]

You can't do anything outside the application sandbox without JB

[stillen]

Originally Posted by jonusx

You can't do anything outside the application sandbox without JB

I've come to the same conclusion/realization. I am trying to figure out how Apple does it. I was in the Apple Store Recently and they have these iPads out that are information Kiosks and no matter how many times you hit the home button, nothing happens. I figure there is some hidden API that handles that.

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by stillen

I've come to the same conclusion/realization. I am trying to figure out how Apple does it. I was in the Apple Store Recently and they have these iPads out that are information Kiosks and no matter how many times you hit the home button, nothing happens. I figure there is some hidden API that handles that.

Those iPads are probably loaded with a custom version of the OS that is configured differently, and has features that just plain don't exist in the shipping OS. Apple builds the OS, so they can do things 3rd party developers can't.