Does anyone know how to change the release date for a Windows 8 Store app? My app has been approved but I cannot move up the release date like in itunes connect.
Thanks.
Sorry, but you can't change the Date, you can cancel the release and submit it for certification again (will take another 5 - 6 days), and don't forget to select correct date this time around. Also you can try contacting customer support but not sure if that's going to help.
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I'm almost ready with developing my first windows phone app. Can anyone tell me how long it will take to get the app in the store. For ios apps the apps must be approved, that usually takes about a week, for Android it usually takes only a couple of hours. How is it for Windows, does Microsoft approve the app?
Second question: I need a url for the app that refers to the windows app store?
Is the url known in advance or do I have to publish first before I know the exact app store url of my app?
Thanks for the help!
First question: At this moment it is around 3 to 4 hours for a republish and a day for normal a full publication. Just submitted an app last week. These times can change, one of my (new) apps was through the publication in 1 hour. Do keep in mind that it can take some time before you see it in the stores (up to 24 hours)
Second question:
When you submit your publication you can see the url of your app.
I want to change my app from a paid version to a free with ads. However, I don't want the people that originally paid for the app to get the ads.
I was thinking I could include a new update that has extra code that sets up some UserDefaults saying the version doesn't have ads and then do the update to the free version. But that doesn't seem like a very reliable solution.
I think, it depends on minimum OS version, that your program can be run on. For iOS 5.0 and later you can try to use iCloud to store some flag about purchased version. It allows you to set this flag not only for one device, but for the user's account.
Or you can store this info in the keychain to get it later. But in this case your user will not be able to have no ADs on some other device with his(her) account.
Anyway, as far as I know, you need to create an update for your app first to write this flag anywhere. And only in some time make an update with ADs.
I will be glad to see comments if someone has another thoughts about this issue.
It seems there is no reliable method to detect whether someone paid for your app or downloaded it later when the price has been changed to free. For this reason I have decided to create two separate entries in the app store.
I am new to Newsstand App. I have gone through many references of the same. But I have some doubts. Here is my confusions :
1) Consider a user installs a newsstand app on the month October. But the same application have issues on the months from JAN to SEP also. So when the user installs the app, do need to alert him of the previous issues of the publisher? or just the issue of current month only? Or when the user installs app, do need to list all the issues available with the Publisher and all are locked? or the issues will be listed only if he subscribed for any particular period?
2) Regarding the In App purchase, where should give the purchase section in the app, like in a separate page or along with listed issues. For ex:- When the user install app, it contains many issues listed and do need to give a purchase icon in each cell of the tableview list, if the issue is not purchased? Otherwise do need to show the purchase icon in another view? eg:- 1 Month Subscription or 1 Year Subscription
3) How restoring of issues can be handled? eg:- User may subscribed to 1 month subscription on the months AUG and SEP and the app was deleted from the device. Then again he installed, how this situation can be handled? How the client device will identify whether the user already purchased a few issues in the previous month? Does Store Kit provides any help or do need to handle all the purchase info in the web server or with apple server?
Thanks in advance
1) & 2) are up to you & your personal design choices.
3) Subscriptions use the standard IAP restore StoreKit functions, found in Apple's documentation.
I have app in App Store, I submitted version 1.1, after Apple reviewed, approved and published it, I noticed there is a clear major bug, so I had to suspend my app from App Store.
I submitted a new version 1.2, you know it would take 5-7 days to be reviewed and published, can I revert to my previous version app (1.0) while the new version is released?
Actually there is just one way :
Set the availability date for buggy version to far future, then submit new version and ask for a expedited review.
After these you should have new version reviewed under 48 hours, depending on weekday.
Open the app in iTunes Connect and click "Rights and Pricing" top right. You get a message like this: "You have selected an Available Date in the future. This will remove your currently live version from the App Store until the new date. Changing Available Date affects all versions of the application, both Ready For Sale and In Review."
Also you can request a faster review for your next update:
https://developer.apple.com/appstore/contact/?topic=expedite
No sadly you cannot according to Apple, here's an excerpt from the iTunes Connect FAQ :
Question: The new version of my app on the App Store has a bug. Can I use a previous version to replace it?
No. You cannot revert to a previous version on the App Store. You must submit a new version.
Source : iTunes Connect FAQ
So, It is quite clear that we can't revert to the previous version on the App Store and the only solution is to submit a new version to the store. But We can fasten up the reviewing process by requesting the Expedited reviews. please go to the link(Expedited Review Form) and Fill up the form.
I need to reject one of my app's from iTunes Store but I don't know how to. Does anybody know where the reject button is?
I assume that your app is already on sale. They removed the reject/remove from sale in the latest version. One work-around is to go to "rights and pricing" view and to deselect all countries. It takes a few days for the change to propagate, but in a day or two the app will be shown as Developer Removed From Sale.