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They don't explicitly provide it. Twitter uses a form of IPC built into iOS (canOpenUrl) to find out by brute force whether or not well known apps are installe
by WhitneyLand 11y ago
They don't explicitly provide it. Twitter uses a form of IPC built into iOS (canOpenUrl) to find out by brute force whether or not well known apps are installed.
In other words if you just submitted mynewobscureapp to the AppStore, Twitter would not be able to detect it until they added your app to their targeted list.
- __z 11y agoSounds like the technique that uses CSS to "brute force" your browser history. http://davidwalsh.name/jquery-spyjax http://davidwalsh.name/jquery-spyjax