I have a shell script I'm looking to run by pressing an icon on the springboard. I've looked over some of the UIkit examples but (as I'm not overly familiar with Objective-C) I'm mostly lost. Any help with examples/code snippets would be much appreciated.

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I would use an icon like the one you described, to turn on/off the ssh daemon, but to be able to do it via switches in the settings would be even cooler.
Lets hope

Close but not quite - I'm looking to run a curl command to login to my university's network. Right now I use a shell script on my laptop, and since the iPhone has curl, it has to be possible.

Doesn't the Tapp application from Erica Sadun do this? Not quite an icon on the springboard, but just one tap short.

Hi guys
its pretty easy

i have done this, check this zip file and change de Info.plist text file with your script

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7528


of activating /deactivating ssh or other coms, yo just need to use ULctl springboard app.

maestropastelero:

Thanks for the reply - I figured it out just before I saw your reply.

Here's what I did - if anyone is interested:

Step 1 - Create new folder and <appname>.app
Step 2 - Right click and "Show package contents"
Step 3 - Add a 60x60 pixel icon with file name 'icon.png'
Step 4 - Add a 320x460 pixel background (user will see this while script executes) with the name 'Default.png'
Step 5 - Add an 'Info.plist', making sure to change the CFBundleExecutable string to the name of your shell script and the CFBundleIdentifier to a unique identifier. I've attached a sanitized version of my plist below

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
	<string>English</string>
	<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
	<string>name_of_shell_script.sh</string>
	<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
	<string>com.unique.identifier</string>
	<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
	<string>6.0</string>
	<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
	<string>APPL</string>
	<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
	<string>0.1.0</string>
	<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
	<string>????</string>
	<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
	<string>1.0</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Step 6 - Add your shell script!
Step 7 - Add the <appname>.app package to the Application folder on your iPhone and restart the springboard

Hopefully this is clear - if there are any questions feel free to ask!

ok, i got "myApp.app" folder im /Applications

it contains:

icon.png

Default.png

info.plist (opened below)

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
	<string>English</string>
	<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
	<string>main.sh</string>
	<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
	<string>com.unique.identifier</string>
	<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
	<string>6.0</string>
	<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
	<string>APPL</string>
	<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
	<string>0.1.0</string>
	<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
	<string>????</string>
	<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
	<string>1.0</string>
</dict>
</plist>

main.sh (opened below)

Code:

mv /Applications/Calculator.app/icon.png /Applications/Calculator.app/icon.bkp
cp /Applications/Igor.app/icon.png /Applications/Calculator.app
exit

on my springboatd, i can see myApp with my icon ok! but when i touch it all i get is a blank sreen and i have to kill app by holdin the home button.

Note: if i run the sript in command line like sh main.sh its working fine.

so what am i doing wrong ?

thanks!

I was having a similar problem - I ended up simply adding the command to restart the springboard before exit. Make your code like so and it should work.

Code:

mv /Applications/Calculator.app/icon.png /Applications/Calculator.app/icon.bkp
cp /Applications/Igor.app/icon.png /Applications/Calculator.app
launchctl stop com.apple.SpringBoard.plist
exit

Hi! Sorry for digging out this ancient thread, but i found the posts here really useful but i've ran into a problem i can't resolve by my self.. Maybe someone can help me. I wrote a little shellscript, that uses gpg to decrypt pgp-encrypted textfiles. The script makes a folder in which it creates three files. One in which the user must paste his/her passphrase for the private key, one where the user must paste the encrypted message and one where the decrypted message will be written into by gpg. I followed the advice here in the thread and have made an "app" witch calls the script. However a strange thing happens: If i run the app, the script is definately executed, since the three files are created. When i edit the file with the passphrase and the one with the encrypted message so that the script should work, and run the "app", the decrypted file is created but it's empty. Now you would probably think there's something wrong with the script.. However, if i run it manually in mobile terminal, the message is being decrypted. There's no user input no nothing so it can't be the reason..
To sum up:
App starts and executes the script, however runs the script only partially. In mobile terminal everything runs fine..

Here's the script and the plist

Code:

mkdir -p /var/mobile/Documents/GPGMail
touch /var/mobile/Documents/GPGMail/Encrypted.txt
touch /var/mobile/Documents/GPGMail/Decrypted.txt
touch /var/mobile/Documents/GPGMail/pass
cat /var/mobile/Documents/GPGMail/pass | \
gpg -d --yes -a -o \
/var/mobile/Documents/GPGMail/Decrypted.txt \
--passphrase-fd 0 \
/var/mobile/Documents/GPGMail/Encrypted.txt
launchctl stop com.apple.SpringBoard.plist
exit

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
	<string>English</string>
	<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
	<string>decrypt.sh</string>
	<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
	<string>com.unique.decrypt</string>
	<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
	<string>6.0</string>
	<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
	<string>APPL</string>
	<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
	<string>0.1.0</string>
	<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
	<string>????</string>
	<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
	<string>1.0</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Originally Posted by supasnashbuhl

To sum up:
App starts and executes the script, however runs the script only partially. In mobile terminal everything runs fine..

At the risk of saying something obvious you have already taken care of... are you running the script in terminal as mobile? Programs launched from SpringBoard usually run as mobile.