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cordova-plugin-jailbreak-detection
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Cordova / PhoneGap Plugin for detecting if the device running the app is jailbroken.
Use this plugin to add an extra layer of security for your app, by detecting if the device running the app is jailbroken.
Unfortunately, there are 10s of millions of jailbroken iOS devices, so preventing your app from running on a jailbroken device could lead to a limited userbase and/or bad App Store reviews.
I recommend you use this plugin to block certain features in your app rather than prevent it from running entirely.
cordova plugin add https://github.com/leecrossley/cordova-plugin-jailbreak-detection.git
You do not need to reference any JavaScript, the Cordova plugin architecture will add a jailbreakdetection
object to your root automatically when you build.
Add the following to your config.xml
to use version 0.1.0 (you can also omit the version attribute to always use the latest version available on PhoneGap build):
<gap:plugin name="uk.co.ilee.jailbreakdetection" version="0.1.0" />
For more information, see the PhoneGap build website.
jailbreakdetection.isJailbroken(successCallback, failureCallback);
successCallback
is called with true if the device is Jailbroken, otherwise falsefailureCallback
is called if there was an error determining if the device is JailbrokeniOS only.
FAQs
Cordova / PhoneGap Plugin for detecting if the device running the app is jailbroken.
The npm package cordova-plugin-jailbreak-detection receives a total of 349 weekly downloads. As such, cordova-plugin-jailbreak-detection popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that cordova-plugin-jailbreak-detection demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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