App Metadata – A Comprehensive Guide To iOS, Android, And UWP Application Metadata Extraction

This package has been deprecated, and is not being maintained by MSFT anymore.

This library helps you retrieve the most frequently extracted metadata and icons within iOS, Android and UWP applications.

Usage

Import

import { Extract } from 'app-metadata';

usage

let results = await Extract.run(pathName);

Results

The library will return the information most relevant for the supported platforms. For a better understanding of the details retrieved refer to the tables below.

iOS

Supported extension: .ipa

Property	Description
icon
iconName
languages	Array of language strings compiled from .lproj files
hasProvisioning	Should always be true since IPA will contain a provisioning profile
appex_provisioning_profiles	Array of all other provisioning profiles included in the metadata

• from Plist (info.plist):

Property	Description
displayName	CFBundleDisplayName (The user-visible name of the bundle) or CFBundleName (short bundle name)
uniqueIdentifier	CFBundleIdentifier (reverse DNS that identifies a project by concatenating the company identifier with the product name)
version	CFBundleShortVersionString (The release-version-number string for the bundle)
buildVersion	CFBundleVersion (The build-version-number string for the bundle)
executableName	CFBundleExecutable (Name of the bundle’s executable file)
minimumOsVersion	MinimumOSVersion or LSMinimumSystemVersion
deviceFamily	UIdeviceFamily

• from Provisioning Profile (embedded.mobileprovision):

Property	Description
pathName	Path of the provisioning profile from inside of the IPA
mobileProvisionFileContent	Provisioning profile content
teamIdentifier	Entitlements[“com.apple.developer.team-identifier”]
profileType	If data.ProvisionedDevices exists, “adhoc”. Otherwise “enterprise”
expiredAt	expired_at or ExpirationDate
idName	AppIDName
name	Name
UniqueDeviceIdentifierList	ProvisionedDevices
deviceFamily	Platform

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