iPhone App Submission (part 3)

 
Jared Wiltshire 28th July 2010

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Summarising on the last 2 app submission articles, this is a checklist of the all the essential things and steps that you must ensure you do for submitting your app to the app store.

The previous 2 articles cover off these steps in detail. You can read them here:

iPhone App Submission (part 1)

iPhone App Submission (part 2)

Checklist

These are the steps/actions you must take to ensure you can build and submit your application:

  • Create a Distribution Certificate, download and install on your machine
  • Create a Distribution build profile in XCode
  • Create a Distribution provisioning profile
  • Create an App ID with a name that matches your XCode project name
  • Create the 57x57 Icon named "Icon.png" and place it at the root of the XCode project
  • Create the 320x460 "Default.png" for the default loading screen while the app is loading. This should be the app's main screen in its basic format without controls added and place it at the root of the XCode project.
  • Create a 512x512 iTunes store icon – do not upscale the 57x57 icon that you used before as it will be rejected.
  • Create 4 screenshots of the app, using the screen-grab utility on the Mac (Control-Shift-4).
  • Widen or localise the application scope, if your app is not going to be aimed at a particular country then select all of the countries in the country availability options for the app to ensure it is available for download to all countries. Otherwise select only the countries it is directly relevant to, this will tighten the scope of the application but will ensure your sales/download numbers are not skewed by numbers from countries that cannot even use the application.
  • Create the application binary - Build for Distribution Configuration


 

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