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Post by kevinh »

baddox wrote: post #46
aculver wrote: post #3

I'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 foun…

Is there not an easy way to just say "turn my app upside down when the user flips the device"? For most apps (i.e. ones that don't use the accelerometer, etc.) this should be trivial, and shouldn't require any real effort from the app developer. Also, I agree with Apple that both orientations should be supported. Depending on how you're holding or docking the device, and where it's convenient for the headphone jack t…

Assuming you programmed your app correctly, you only need to override the function shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation to return true for the supported orientations. If you use portrait orientation, you can get portrait upsidedown for "free", as it rotates the view for you. It's the same with LandscapeLeft and LandscapeRight. The only complications come when you want to support both portrait and landscape orientations, which isn't required anyway.

Re: IOS App Store Submission Checklist - anything else to add?

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Post by MrScruff »

pdenya wrote: post #72

"The app has a reasonably sized market, i.e. is not a tiny niche or for a private audience" ...how do you distribute an app for a niche or private audience?

Ad hoc distribution presumably.

http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/distribute.html

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Post by briandear »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #39
sanderson1 wrote: post #20

Here's one to add to the list: Don't submit any sort of tethering app. Chances are it will be approved and removed within a couple of hours. Apple is 2 for 2 so far: Netshare and iTether.

Do the developers end up receiving payment for the copies sold before it is pulled from the App Store?

Yes.

Re: IOS App Store Submission Checklist - anything else to add?

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Post by coob »

JimDabell wrote: post #58
coob wrote: post #9

With 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.

This isn't true. I've had two rejections for HIG violations - one was an unclear error message (authentication failure-style message when no network was available) and the other was orientation problems (one of the official iPad app templates at the time supported three orientations by default, which is against the rules). Specifically, section 10.1 of the App Store review guidelines states: > Apps must comply with a…

> It is very much the case that you can often get away with it (see for example all the apps with splash screens), but it is "expressly forbidden".

Neither of your instances of breaking the HIG made your app better, so yes, what I said is true. It was said by an Apple engineer.

'Better' is arbitrary and entirely up to Apple, but if you have any UI nouse you're going to get it through. They themselves routinely break the HIG.

The 'G' is for guidelines, not rules.

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Post by mjs00 »

abscondment wrote: post #70
mjs00 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also maybe consider dropping: > App state is saved when stopping the app and restored on next start I believe you get this for 'free' with IOS 4 and greater, as the app now never stops, it just suspends to the background when you switch between apps.

Even on iOS 4, the iPhone 3G doesn't support multitasking.

Good point - I seem to have forgotten that as well as I considered 3GS or greater to be my target. So it is a good point to consider for usability, depending on the app. But FYI, at least in my app's case, it wasn't a determining criteria or test in order to pass app store review.
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