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Apple News \| Apple Starts Rejecting Apps for Using Private APIs
Monday, 16th November 2009, 02:11 pm
This entry needs translation. To help us and submit a translation please click here Apple has apparently started rejecting iPhone applications due to usage of private API calls. Twitter user Craig Hockenberry tweets, Hearing lots of reports about apps getting rejected due to private API usage. Maybe now you'll believe me when I say it's a bad idea… To which John Gruber replies, Yup: Apple recently started running apps through a static analysis tool to look for private API calls... I honestly don't know exactly what it flags. I have reason to believe that it is a serious tool, not simplistic. Many developers use private API calls to gain functionality that is not present in the public API. Even Google used private API calls for their Google Mobile app. Read More
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