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I'm writing a jailbroken app in iPhone, I'd like to add a updating mechanism for this app and it works like the updating via App Store.

I know that every icon on SpringBoard is a SBApplicationIcon object, while the icon with a progress bar for updating is SBDownloadingIcon object. My problem is that I can not find any method to convert.

moligaloo
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If I understand correctly, you want to update apps like it does when via App Store with the Progress Bar on it.

Try using the itms-services (Wireless ad-hoc distribution). For that you need to create a simple plist file and the ipa and upload it to a server. It'll help you download the app in the same way App Store does.

Kunal
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I understand since it's for jailbroken filesystem, it's not on the App Store. That's why I'm saying, upload the two files (IPA and PLIST file) to a free web server space, you can get easily.

If you can build an ipa for the app, then follow the link I mentioned above.
If it's a .deb package, then it can't be done that way, AFAIK.

Hope this helps.

Kunal
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  • You mention a link but there is no link in your answer? – Beno Nov 27 '12 at 21:14
  • @Kunal, please don't add more than one answer, just to clarify your first one. Use the **edit** link to add more, or post a comment under your first answer, in response to the poster's comment. Also, please don't create multiple Stack Overflow accounts. You have two accounts, used to post two different answers here. – Nate Dec 01 '12 at 21:48
  • @Beno, I think the link is the link in the *other* answer here. Kunal posted two answers. – Nate Dec 01 '12 at 21:49
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If you want to do this, you have to use a itms-services url. Since your code can't make itself writable, you will not be able to change the object from a SBApplicationIcon to a SBDownloadingIcon object (and back again to a SBApplicationIcon so that users can use the app).

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