install ipa using command line

Apple-real-device-debugging.md

Apple Real Devices Debugging

What you need

• certificate--which tells your devices that Apple trust you
• a app id
• a test device
• a provisioning profile

Reference

• Demystifying iOS certificates and provisioning files

iOS-FileStructure.md

iOS FileStructure

• listing iPod touch 5th disk stats

iPod-touch:/ root# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/disk0s1s1  2.2G  1.6G  540M  76% /
devfs            27K   27K     0 100% /dev
/dev/disk0s1s2   28G  5.7G   22G  21% /private/var
/dev/disk1      223M   63M  160M  29% /Developer

iOS-Hacks.md

install ipa using command line

• using ideviceinstaller which can be installed using brew install ideviceinstaller

# list installed app on the connected device
# it also lists the identifier of the installed packages
ideviceinstaller -l

# install ipa
ideviceinstaller -i <your-package.ipa>

# uninstall app
ideviceinstaller -U <your-app-id>

iOS-ipa-analysis.md

ipa package analysis

ipa is essentially a zip file.

ipa file root structures

• iTunes Artwork--a PNG app icon for showing in iTunes and the App Store.
• iTunesMetadata.plist—Contains copyright information, release date, purchase date, name of the developer and company who created it, etc.
• /Payload/Application.app

To repack the ipa, simple select the three files and folder listed above and right click and select compress. The Archive.zip you get can be install using ideviceinstaller. You can also rename the file name you wanted.

You can also use script.

cd <the-directory-that-store-the-three-files-and-folder>
zip -0 -y -r out.ipa .
#or use
zip -0  --symlinks --recurse-paths out.ipa .
# the `out.ipa` is the result

What in the Payload

• _CodeSignature/CodeResources—-configuration file for app in the Payload resources, which is a xml configuration file. It includes two keys—files and rules. It can be thought as an index for files in the app.
• PkgInfo--It belongs to files in CodeResources config. The contents of the PkgInfo file are the 4-byte package type followed by the 4-byte signature of your application. It comes from OS X and is not required by iOS. For more info, please refer to here.
• *.nib—-compiled views
• *.strings—-apple binary property list for storing localizable strings
• embedded.mobileprovision--embeded provisioning profile
• *.lproj--for localization usage
• Info.plist--contains info about where to launch application, MinimumOSVersion, etc.

Reference

• IPA files – Apple’s proprietary format for archive files for Iphone Ipod Touch and Ipad applications – Uses Apple’s FairPlay DRM technology
• [HOW TO] Edit iTunes apps (IPA files) to be installed on unsupported devices
• The iTunesMetadata.plist on xamarin.com File
• gist for unpack ipa metadata
• install ipa on jailbroken device

iOS-Jailbreak.md

Jailbreaking iOS Device

• pangu8 for iOS 8 and above

• pangu for iOS 8.0 to 8.1

• pangu for iOS 7.1 to 7.1.x

• pangu twitter page

Jailbreaking iPod Touch 5th with iOS 8.3 with Mac OS X 10.10

• Download PP Jailbreak 2 at here
• Connect your device, disable your Find-My-iPhone and lockscreen passcode, turn airplane mode on
• Open PP Jailbreak 2 and follow the instruction

Interest package for Jailbreak Device

• activator--customizing gesture
• OpenSSH--for remote ssh login
• open--for open apps with remote ssh login
• netcat