Class Application

Represents an installed application (game) on the console, or a homebrew application (.nro file).

Can be used as an iterator to retrieve the list of installed applications.

Example

for (const app of Switch.Application) {
  console.log(app.name);
}

Constructors

constructor

Properties

author icon? id nacp name version

Accessors

self

Methods

createCacheSaveDataSync createProfileSaveDataSync createSaveDataSync filterSaveData findSaveData launch [iterator]

Constructors

constructor

  • new Application(id): Application

  • Creates an Application instance from the ID of an installed application.

    Parameters

    • id: bigint

      The ID of the installed application.

    Returns Application

    Example

    const app = new Switch.Application(0x100bc0018138000n);
    console.log(app.name);
  • new Application(nro): Application

  • Creates an Application instance from an ArrayBuffer containing the contents of a .nro homebrew application.

    Parameters

    Returns Application

    Example

    const nro = await Switch.readFile('sdmc:/hbmenu.nro');
    const app = new Switch.Application(nro);
    console.log(app.name);

Properties

Readonlyauthor

author: string

The author or publisher of the application.

Optional Readonlyicon

icon?: ArrayBuffer

The raw JPEG data for the cover art of the application. Can be decoded with the Image class.

Readonlyid

id: bigint

The 64-bit unique identifier of the application (PresenceGroupId).

Readonlynacp

nacp: ArrayBuffer

The raw NACP data of the application. Use the @tootallnate/nacp module to parse this data.

Readonlyname

name: string

The name of the application.

Readonlyversion

version: string

The version of the application.

Accessors

Staticself

Methods

createCacheSaveDataSync

createProfileSaveDataSync

  • createProfileSaveDataSync(profile, info?): SaveData

  • Creates the Save Data for this Application for the provided user profile.

    Parameters

    Returns SaveData

    Example

    const profile = Switch.currentProfile({ required: true });
    app.createSaveData(profile);

createSaveDataSync

filterSaveData

findSaveData

  • findSaveData(filter): undefined | SaveData

  • Parameters

    Returns undefined | SaveData

launch

  • launch(): never

  • Launches the application.

    Returns never

    Note

    This only works for installed applications (not homebrew apps).

Static[iterator]

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