iOS App building

[mkstretch]

im looking to redo this app Common Summonsable Offenses by MJS https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/common-summonsable-offenses/id503412288?mt=8
It’s from another developer and has not been updated in years. Is there anyway I could get the api for the app? Thanks

 

[PhoneyDeveloper]

Doesn't google work where you live? Search for: new york state summonsable offenses api

Actually I might take that back. While NY State does have a very large number of open APIs looking at the app description it seems to me that the content of the app is static, not dynamic. So I think it's more likely that the author typed in all the data and accesses it from a sqlite DB. There might be a smart way to build the DB if you get the source material in binary format.

You might be able to verify this by a little reverse-engineering of the app. Does the app work with airplane mode turned on? Does the app have a sqlite file inside the IPA? etc.

Anyway, if it can be built by typing in the info or parsing a text document you probably should go that route.

 

[mkstretch]

Google? What’s that? Never heard of it?
[doublepost=1511743249][/doublepost]The first thing I do for anything mr phoney baloney is use google.

I think the app dev uses http://ypdcrime.info/ for his info.

 

[superscape]

im looking to redo this app Common Summonsable Offenses by MJS https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/common-summonsable-offenses/id503412288?mt=8
It’s from another developer and has not been updated in years. Is there anyway I could get the api for the app? Thanks

Maybe you could try to contact the developer and see if he'll open source it, if he's no longer interested in developing it? Never hurts to ask...

 

[Dookieman]

You could probably use Charles proxy to do a packet sniffing and figure out the API.