I have lost an iPhone/iPad app due to a hard disk failure and I am trying to recover my code. I have found that I still have the app in the simulator, so I have been able to recover all the resources from the ipa’s simulator file (as they are not encrypted). That is great. But the code is compiled (I think its an Intel binary file) so … is it completely impossible to extract something readable from this kind of file?
Please note:
I am not talking about decrypt/decompile an ipa file from the Apple store or somewhere else. It’s from the simulator.
I think it’s impossible, but who knows!
Thanks in advance.
No that’s not possible. Your source code is gone. You can find some recovery software that tries to restore deleted files. If you have used any source control management like CVS, SVN, Mercurial or GIT that would have saved you. Anyway Lesson learnt from this donot rely on your local harddisk for backup.