Since last post, I've progressed a lot. I found a friend that knows how to develop for iOS very well, and I'm working with him. He has asked to me if I could write the code of a button( when it's pressed, it kills all apps running on the iDevice) Any ideas? I need it pls!
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Apps are sandboxed so there is probably no such way, but I'll let others with more iOS experience chime in.
I would have the button activate a wifi connected method of destroying the iDevice (perhaps dropping into a steel furnace or something). Take all appropriate safety precautions. Works only once per device, so make sure to borrow a large number of your friends devices for testing.
Without jailbreaking, such an app is not possible.
P.S. I also wanna suggest you use less-generic titles for your threads. It's a courtesy to all those you seek help from.
If its possible to kill the currently running app (I don't think it is,) then it might be capable to also kill all the apps you've written that are running on the device...
I believe you can have give your app a special URL. If your other apps know its special URL, then can send it messages. So you could make one app that sends all your other apps a special special message to terminate. I don't really see the value of such an app though...
Edit: Silly me! I forgot! Just run a loop until you receieve the highest level of memory warning. At that point, the device will have run out of RAM for other apps, and so have terminated them automatically. If your app keeps allocing stuff, the system will kill it, too.
I believe you can have give your app a special URL. If your other apps know its special URL, then can send it messages. So you could make one app that sends all your other apps a special special message to terminate. I don't really see the value of such an app though...
Edit: Silly me! I forgot! Just run a loop until you receieve the highest level of memory warning. At that point, the device will have run out of RAM for other apps, and so have terminated them automatically. If your app keeps allocing stuff, the system will kill it, too.
Oh my, first, Apple would never approve, second, I would literally kill a Developer if he would try to do something like that ot my device.. sigh.
No, I haven't actually tested any of what I said, but if I wanted to make an app that terminated every open app on the iPhone, I think that's where I would start.
And you think such an app would get approval into the app store ? Because if it doesn't, and you're still stuck jailbreaking to run your app, might as well just use kernel syscalls like kill and other such things...
Oh, I wouldn't expect it to be approved into the app store. I just wanted to come up with a solution without jail breaking the iPhone.
iOS kills the app if it takes too much memory. I forget where I read it but its somewhere in the developer documentation.
If the iOS system finds out there is being used too much RAM, it will kill apps in the background who are using too much memory, this could be your own app, or others, but you can never be too sure it will actually kill the rest, because if you are using too much memory, iOS will kill your own app first.
So without jailbreaking it's a nogo, but apparently OP isn't interested anymore.
So without jailbreaking it's a nogo, but apparently OP isn't interested anymore.