IOS App Store Submission Checklist - anything else to add?
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#2Can someone elaborate on the no pricing information within the app point? If we have an in-app purchase, we can't tell people how much it costs? That sounds opposite to what I'd expect.
Re: IOS App Store Submission Checklist - anything else to add?
#3I've got one you can add: iPad applications don't have to support all four orientations. However, whichever orientation you do support (in our instance, portrait) you must support the top-up and bottom-up variations unless some special circumstance warrants only supporting one or the other. Just had a submission rejected earlier this week for this reason. FYI, here is the response we received from Apple:
10.1
We found that your app does not comply with the Apple iOS Human Interface Guidelines, as required by the App Store Review Guidelines.
Specifically, we noticed your app only supported the top-up variant of the portrait orientation, but not the bottom-up variant.
While supporting both variants of both orientations, each with unique launch images, provides the best user experience and is recommended, we understand there are certain applications that must run in the portrait orientation only. In this case, it would be appropriate to support both variants of that orientation in your application, e.g., Home button up and down.
Addressing this issue typically requires only a simple and straightforward code modification. However, if you require assistance, the Apple Developer Support Team is available to provide code-level assistance.
For more information, please review the Aim to Support All Orientations section of the iOS Human Interface Guidelines.
Re: IOS App Store Submission Checklist - anything else to add?
#4Can someone elaborate on the no pricing information within the app point? If we have an in-app purchase, we can't tell people how much it costs? That sounds opposite to what I'd expect.
I was curious about this too so had a search and found.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7109635/is-it-ok-to-show-...
If you use MKStoreKit to localize the pricing then its OK. Apple dont want developers hard coding pricing info or displaying the wrong currency to the user.
Re: IOS App Store Submission Checklist - anything else to add?
#5> Lite versions must not prompt (up-sell) the full or paid version
That one I see quite a lot. Example: Cut The Rope Holiday Gift (which is free) proposes me to get CTR Original and CTR Experiments on the last tab.
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#6"Lite versions must not prompt (up-sell) the full or paid version"
Is this true? I play a game that periodically shows an up-sell to the paid version as an alternative to the app's advertisements.
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#7Can someone elaborate on the no pricing information within the app point? If we have an in-app purchase, we can't tell people how much it costs? That sounds opposite to what I'd expect.
They specifically mean hard-coded references. For IAPs and the like, you should be querying the server for the localized price.
A good example is a "Share via Email" function that presents a pre-filled Email Composer with "Download this $1 app." This causes problems if you happen to change the price down the road (or if users are in a different economic zone).
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#8"e.g. Images and icons are not framed with a "polaroid" style (thicker at the bottom) border"
Can someone give me an example of a Polaroid border? Is it just a frame around an image?
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#9With regards to the HIG:
At a recent Apple iOS Tech Talk the engineer giving the session mentioned that breaking the HIG wasn't expressly forbidden, but that you needed to "know the rules in order to break them". Break them, if it's better than sticking to them.
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#10I once had an app rejected as it was "not amusing" (it was a "Unicorn Chaser" app). I also have had apps rejected for putting "iPad" in the wrong section of the name. For example "X for iPad" is fine, but "iPad X" is not.