Tag ‘itunes connect’

How to build and submit a Universal App for distribution on the App Store with the iOS 4 SDK

Jul

Today I’ve been working on submitting an update to our popular Catholic Prayers database app: it’ll be our first Universal application to hit the App Store. Ever since we upgraded to the latest SDK we can only build for iOS 4, but we’ve set the iPhone OS Deployment Target to be 3.1.3. That way, our users should be able to run the app on devices running iPhone OS 3.x.

Xcode includes project templates for iPad apps and has a menu command (Project > Upgrade Current Target for iPad) that helps you get the project setup correctly when you want to add iPad support to your existing iPhone project. The Upgrade command gives you two options…

Tags: app store, ios 4, iphone os 4, iphone sdk, itunes connect, universal, xcode
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iTunes Connect: Chrome works better than Safari

May

Mauro Dalu

Every time I get to upload an update to one of our iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps, I get frustrated by a number of things within iTunes Connect (itunesconnect.apple.com). In this post I want to focus on the total lack of feedback on the upload progress of the app binaries.

In Safari the spinner on the “Upload Binary” page can mean anything: is my app uploading or is the browser just hanging? Should I hit Cancel and retry?… Dory would say “just keep spinning”…

Tags: app store, chrome, itunes connect, safari
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iTunes Connect: now you can schedule price changes and release dates!

Mar

Mauro Dalu

Now you can schedule a series of price changes for those apps that will go into effect automatically on their target dates, effectively being able to plan promotions and do some real marketing on your apps on autopilot once you’ve planned your campaign (standing ovation please!).

iTunes Connect is Apple’s developers and publishers portal, which is notoriously not a great web app. Its features are really bare-bones and when you work with it, you feel like stuck in a pre Web 2.0 era, especially for people like us who are used to build and deal with cutting edge Rails web apps.

So every time Apple’s team adds a minor feature is an event to celebrate for us :) …

Tags: app store, apple, iphone, itunes connect
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