The author reflects on a complicated, on-again, off-again relationship with Apple over fourteen years, marked by app development triumphs and frustrations. Despite frustrations with App Store policies and support, the author remains engaged with Apple, seeking clearer communication regarding app rejections. The underlying message stresses a desire for improvement in developer relations.
I have been writing software for a long time. Long enough to have been rejected by App Review before, and long enough to know that most rejections are boring. A missing privacy string. A screenshot that shows a device frame Apple no longer likes. A login the reviewer couldn’t get past. You read the note, … Read more
Oh Apple, I’ve made such a fool of myself. Why? Why did I fall for the lure of the slim lines? the promise of the wearables? I was sure that Android was going to make me happy, to fill the gaps that had grown between us. I cannot believe I fell for it. After a … Read more
I’m sure we would all love to work in an environment where as soon as a cool new technology is available we can switch everything over! The reality is we don’t (or at least the people I get to talk to don’t!) So for many the mobile dilemma is simple… how do I get to … Read more
If you want to deploy an iOS application provisioned under an enterprise license on an IIS box the steps are simple enough: – Create a folder where the .ipa file will be stored such as \inetpub\wwwroot\myApp – Create a manifest (.plist) file, here is an example of what that should look like [code language=”xml”] <?xml … Read more
I remember writing my first mobile app for the Psion Series II, it started my passion for mobile devices. So it was no surprise to the family when I started writing apps for the iPhone all the way back in 2009. There were countless hours spent reading documentation, trying to get things to compile, and … Read more
How cool is it to think that you can write one application (albeit in HTML5/JS) and deploy it to all three major Mobile OS’s, using DevExtreme, I will be creating an application that targets iOS, WM8 and Android. One thing I wanted to do was to access the hardware layer of the device with the … Read more
Before everyone starts messaging me and telling me 110% is not possible, just listen ! For weeks I’ve been watching the countdown over at DevExpress promising to announce something cool. Well tonight 6pm AEST all was revealed – DXTREME In a nutshell, 3 tools in 1 – developing rich cross platform applications, and it looks … Read more
Welcome to Apple World: Submit – Fail, Submit – Fail, Submit – Fail It certainly was not the first iOS App I had tried to submit, yet here I am, seeing the same ambiguous error: iPhone/iPod Touch: icon.png: icon dimensions (0 x 0) don’t meet the size requirements. The icon file must be 57×57 pixels, … Read more
I received an SOS from a mate asking to see why his $1,000,000 app making idea was crashing at the first hurdle. Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInvalidArgumentException’, reason: ‘-[MyAnnotation objectForKey:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x73be080’ If there is one thing the last three years of xCode development has taught me, it’s that … Read more