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Learning iOS Security

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Learning iOS Security

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Installing apps


How to install an app is considered a trivial exercise at this point, with common advertisements doing nothing more than showing the icons of the platform to suggest that they want you to get their app from the corresponding store. That being said, there are other ways to download and install an app than simply opening an app store on a device and tapping on Get. An app can be pushed over the air with management systems, put on the device with tools such as Apple Configurator (discussed in Chapter 4, Organizational Controls), and installed once it is compiled from the source code with Xcode (Apple's Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which is discussed with other tools that can perform installations in Chapter 6, Debugging and Conclusion).

There is no concept of sideloading apps on iOS in comparison to other platforms where you may be able to place a device into developer mode. Likewise you will likely never have implicit or otherwise stated encouragement to gain root...