I am installing my own app in iTunes, and found it to be unknown genre. Since my app is an News based Genre, i need to make is shown as a news genre instead of unknown Genre. But my app is not yet launched in App store. whether this is the cause or anything else? please suggest
Any help would be appreciated.
-Sathiya
EDIT:
Thanks for the information. But to be more clear about the question is If you download any app from iTunes means it will based on News, Entertainment, Games, Music Genres. Likewise my appication is a news based Genre. So i need to recognize it as a News based Genre in iTunes. As of now it displays Unknown Genre in iTunes. But my app is not yet launched in App Store.
You don't get to set the genre until you submit the application to the App Store. In the process for submitting an application to the App Store you get to set the Primary and Secondary categories, just like slf said. Before submission, you're app has no genre.
I'm not sure I'm clear on what you are asking, but when you submit your application to the App Store you will be prompted for the Primary and Secondary category for your application. Users will see that.
If your app is Ad Hoc distributed or Enterprise distributed, this does not let you set the application category and it stays as "Unknown Genre".
We still don't have an answer to that condition.
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Hi I have uploaded my app to iTunes connect. The app is validated and submitted successfully. While publishing the app to the app store my app got rejected because of insufficient meta data
can any one tell me the reason for the same and what changes do I require to make to resolve the issue.
Metadata rejection means that the description/screenshots/search tags, that us anything apart of the IPA, which you provide in iTunes, is not as per the guideline or is not incomplete.
In the iTunes Resolution Center they will mention that issue in details. If not you can contact them through the chat option and ask for more information. Usually the Resolution Center will provide all the details.
Insufficient meta data means you might have provided invalid meta data. There are 17 guidelines given by Apple for Metadata as given below. Make sure that you are following all of them.
Apps or metadata that mentions the name of any other mobile platform will be rejected
Apps with placeholder text will be rejected
Apps with names, descriptions, screenshots, or previews not relevant to the content and functionality of the App will be rejected
App names in iTunes Connect and as displayed on a device should be similar, so as not to cause confusion
Small and large App icons should be similar, so as to not to cause confusion
Apps with App icons, screenshots, and previews that do not adhere to the 4+ age rating will be rejected
Apps with Category and Genre selections that are not appropriate for the App content will be rejected
Developers are responsible for assigning appropriate ratings to their Apps. Inappropriate ratings may be changed/deleted by Apple
Developers are responsible for assigning appropriate keywords for their Apps. Inappropriate keywords may be changed/deleted by Apple
Developers who attempt to manipulate or cheat the user reviews or chart ranking in the App Store with fake or paid reviews, or any other inappropriate methods will be removed from the iOS Developer Program
Apps that recommend that users restart their iOS device prior to installation or launch may be rejected
Apps should have all included URLs fully functional when you submit it for review, such as support and privacy policy URLs
Apps with screenshots, previews, and marketing text that do not clearly identify supplemental content or items that must be purchased separately (e.g. using IAP) will be rejected
App previews may only use video screen captures of the app, voice-overs, and textual and design overlays, or the app will be rejected
Apps with previews that display personal information of a real person without permission will be rejected
App previews may only include music that is licensed for that purpose in all selected territories
App previews that include content played or streamed via the app (e.g. iTunes playlist, YouTube streaming video) that is not licensed for use in the preview will be rejected
Finally, you have to make sure that you have provided information about how to use your application so that they can easily test the application.
Does anyone know how to access Contacts in Windows 8 Store apps?
I know that because of the sandboxed nature, Windows Store apps cannot access AddressBook from files such as Outlook Express contacts or Outlook, but since there is already an app called People that comes pre-installed, I figure why not let users make use of whatever Contacts the user has already allowed the app to see, rather than creating separate list of Contacts for my app. It seems silly to recreate the wheel by asking the user to re-import all the contacts again.
I have seen Contact Picker example but I still have no clues how to get list of Contacts/People as in that People app.
I have not developed for mobile phone, however if the device is a mobile phone, surely the app is expected to use local contacts rather than keeping separate list of contacts. So I am thinking there's got to be a way to do the same thing on a PC or any device really, rather than each app managing its own contacts. I have not seen any guidance on how to do this. What are your thoughts?
I asked a similar question a few days ago and, after a lot of research, it looks like it's just not possible to get that information from the people app outside of the contract. The reason that it works within calendar/mail/messenger is because they're all technically contained within the same app and are able to use each other's data and violate normal rules.
A lot of people have pointed me to look at the live SDK, but it still seems like it's not at all possible to get people information in your app, since the SDK doesn't support it anymore.
Look at the ContactPicker class :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br224913.aspx
Another way is to share your resource or whatever you want to send and user will choose an app that will send or on any another way use your shared resource (url, image, whatever)
IMO the latter is preferred way since then user will have a choice of applications that can send mail or post that resource on facebook / twitter.
Check this sample on ContactPicker
This is a problem that every developer will face when building their apps: how to contact the reviewer of your app to notify them of an update, new release, help topics, etc?
Some things I am thinking:
Include an RSS feed in your app which you can update to notify the users of the app.
Include a twitter feed regarding your app. How to go about this?
Include a way for the users to subscribe to a mailing list. This way, I can send a mass-email to the users who opted-in? Any suggestions here?
Any other ways that you think this can/should be done? Any existing solutions you can point me to will be great. Thanks in advance.
One way, for contacting a specific user who created a review of an application is to go to Zune Social (at http://social.zune.net/home) and create a new message. You can then enter the Zune Tag of the user who created a review.
Personally, I'd try to do all three - have a web page/site, with an RSS feed, and a subscription link (so they can subscribe to the RSS feed via email) and then post any updates to your twitter account as well.
You can't really force a user to do any of these, but having the options available, and linked from inside your app on the about page is probably good practise.
You could also include some kind of "Update Available" feature inside the application. Try to make this as unobtrusive as possible obviously. Obviously if they've still got the app installed they'll get an update notification from the marketplace anyway.
Sam
Besides the suggestions made by samjudson, I'll also recommend having a support-page with a direct option to send a email to you. Here's a example of a support-page from one of my applications. I've received lot of emails with suggestions for improvements, or complains about bugs. And since it's by email, it gives you the option to respond directly to people.
Another thing about reviews. Don't take them to serious. Most people only rate negatively (since humans like to complain), and by such a lot of reviews are often misinformed, outdated, or the users just been plain ignorant.
in India we have movie culture where every movie has 5 to 6 songs. We have copy rights and distribution rights for the songs of the some movies. What I want to know is can we make an app which has the only the audio songs in it. So that fans of that movie can download the app and listen to the music of that movie. We will provide the songs along with the app itself , without the users having to stream from the Internet. Before we start off with making of the ap we need to know if apple allows such kind of app. Has any one seen such an app before. I am not sure how to contact apple to ask the same question.
Such an app is possible: see things like the Napoleon Dynamite soundboard app, it's an app that just plays sounds.
The main problem is though, the user would probably expect to have the music in their music collection as well. Are you sure that is the best way?
So, I'm trying to implement a solution to a problem that I posted on superuser.
What I'm trying to do
I want to write a (Windows) application to synchronize podcast subscriptions in iTunes (and possibly iPhone/iPod touch apps, though I'll ignore them for now) between multiple computers that are using the same iTunes account.
How I'm planning on doing it
My initial thought was to do the following:
1) Grab the list of all podcast subscriptions from iTunes on computer A
2) Do some synching, giving new podcast urls to a program on computer B
3) Subscribe to the new podcasts in iTunes with computer B
I think I could do all this by parsing the ITL file, which is where subscription information seem to be stored. I haven't been able to find any documentation for this, though.
Maybe I'm going about this wrong and using the iTunes COM interface would be a decent way to grab the list of subscribed podcasts (step 1) and then subscribing to them (step 3). Is there a smarter way to go about doing this?
Summary
Before I reinvent the wheel, is there already a solution for synching podcast subscriptions among multiple computers?
What is the most appropriate method for grabbing a list of podcasts that iTunes is subscribed to?
What is the most appropriate method of subscribing iTunes to new podcasts?
As a note, I e-mailed Apple's Developer Support with pretty much the same questions, but apparently asking questions about documentation/API doesn't count as technical support.
Thanks,
On OS X there is no way to get iTunes' list of podcasts. You can ask for podcast tracks (and kind of arrange them by album name), but iTunes will not tell you anything about the actual podcasts themselves (URLs, status, name etc.).
I have zero experience of iTunes on Windows, but I'd be very surprised if the API were more comprehensive than the OS X one.