In 2012 Ben wrote iAd Production: A Beginner’s Guide, an exercise driven book on iAd design, development and deployment. iAd Production focuses heavily on iAd Producer, an app from Apple that allows drag and drop iAd creation. What is iAd? Think of an iAd as a micro-app contained within an app, on a user’s iPhone or iPad, that they’ve […]
From the iTunes Connect FAQ: [Developer login required] “Your app is searchable by your app name, your keywords and your company name.” This means you don’t have to waste valuable keywords by including your app or company name in the 100 byte keyword limit. To gain a few more characters you can also remove the spaces in-between keywords and […]
So many iOS apps developers forget to remove the screenshots from their apps on the App Store; often revealing the horrendous times the screenshots were taken and detracting from the actual app. iTunes Connect recommends the removal of the status bar, and Status Barred removes the status bar perfectly regardless of the screenshot being retina, […]
A great, but underused location feature on iOS is the purpose property of the CLLocationManager. So many apps ask for your location — give your users confidence in sharing their location by telling them why you need it! Example: locationManager.purpose = @“We’ll only use your location to show you local events nearby.”; You need to do […]
Lion no longer installs all the printer drivers out of the box, I guess to cut down on unnecessary downloading from the Mac App Store. On 10.7.1 it wouldn’t let me add a printer with the error: The software for this printer is currently unavailable. Please contact the printer’s manufacturer for the latest software. However by running Software […]
UK Holiday’s provided by Apple that you can subscribe to in iCal — webcal://ical.mac.com/ical/UK32Holidays.ics Been using this ever since I’ve had my Mac and it’s very useful. Works on iPhone and iPad as well.
From the updated iTunes Terms & Conditions: We may ask for your permission to provide the name, email address and postcode listed in your Account to the Publisher so that the Publisher can send you marketing messages about its own products in accordance with its privacy policy. Previously iTunes / App Store purchases had no […]
If you’re trying to find your iOS app screenshots you’ve snapped in Xcode during your app development they’re located here: ~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Screenshots Enjoy all your lovely iPad and iPhone app sn-apps..
