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I have a list of keywords that I want to search through out all my employee's iPad's, is it possible to call spotlight and get the results programmatically?

Thank you.

Edit: Basically an app that would search for custom keywords on all other apps on the iPad and return the results on a simple list. I'm guessing my best bet is through the use of spotlight, but I was hoping I could programmatically call the spotlight engine to make the search for me, and get the results.

the Reverend
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  • what do you mean with "I want to search through out all my employee's iPad's". can you provide an example ? – JeanLuc Nov 07 '11 at 18:35

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You can't write an app is able to access (much less search) the data of other apps running iOS.

That's the magic of app sandboxing (detailed in this "iOS Environment" Apple documentation).

Michael Dautermann
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