iTunes Connect allows adding Traditional Chinese metadata, however I couldn't find any App Store (by country) that uses Traditional Chinese metadata...
I checked the most likely App Stores such as Hong Kong and Taiwan, but it seems they display UK English metadata rather than Chinese metadata.
Can anyone suggest?
As listed here Taiwan and Macau display the traditional Chinese.
Try App Store in Taiwan. And you can temporarily change your store country in your account in iTunes.
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My application is in three languages - Russian, Italian and Portuguese. I added key words for all of these languages (main one is Russian), but in app store you can only find the app by Russian key words, not the other two. Could you, please, help me with that?
It is because App store is divided by countries or regions. And your device is probably in Russian App store. If you whant to check your application in another regions you can change your device region (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201389)
I'm going to release an app in the UK and US App Stores. I would like to have two different data sources according to the store my application is downloaded from. Basically I would like my app to connect to my US servers when downloaded from the US store and to the UK servers when downloaded from the british one.
I was thinking of including the origin URL in the as localised string but I don't think this is a stable solution.
Any idea?
thanks a lot
Claus
I'm not sure, but I don't think the app has knowledge from where it was downloaded from.
You could create two apps, one for UK and one for US, and make the apps only available in their respective local App Stores.
However, depending on the amount of apps you would have to produce (if you intend to distribute your app in more than 2 countries in the future), it might be easier to just ask the user which data source to use on startup, or let him define one in the settings etc.
Or use the iPhone's current language or even location to select the data source.
I want to know how can get the name of the country for who installs my app like whatsapp or line app.
Hints:
1 - in the settings I choose U.S.
2 - in app store I choose Saudi Arabia store.
I am currently in Jordan, when installing and open the (whatsapp or line) application is automatically choosing Jordan directly, and it does not ask me to allow location services to calculate?
So it is not reading it from setting or from store setting or from location services...
So how can I know user country???
You could use the CTCarrier class, which gives you the MCC.
Since I'm not using any real localization technique besides having my dates generated based on the user's locale, I still wanted to have different screenshots in different countries for my app. Any way of doing this?
For reference, i know the app Moneybook is doing it, but also understand that they have localization support.
Thanks in advance.
Yes, within iTunes Connect add some localisation which allows for different text and images for languages.
If you just want different images you will need to copy your English text and keywords in.
HI,
I am developing an application for an esteemed client in Australia. They have certain copyright issues when it comes to uses outside Australia accessing the content via the app.
Is it possible to have a local and an international version of the app, both available via iTunes Store? The international version will only have permissible content. If not, please advice the best option to deal with this issue.
Thanking you in anticipation
Cheers,
Amit
Yes, you can create two versions of the application with different SKUs. The best way to do this would by by using a wildcard certificate and using a different project identifier in the application's plist file.
Using the administrative panel on iTunes Connect you can then restrict the sale of the SKUs to different territories.
These options become available when you have paid the $99 for a development certificate, and and when you upload your application to iTunes.
As others have noted, it's possible to build two versions and to use the iTunes store to restrict distribution based on the nation where the buyer is located.
However there's another issue to consider. You say that the problem is "accessing the content via the app" outside of Australia. But you're on a platform which is inherently mobile, and may not be located in the same country it was when the user got your app. What happens if someone is in Australia, gets the app legitimately, and then travels to some other country? They're no longer in Australia but they have a copy of the app that assumes they are. Would your client's copyright restrictions still permit them to access content that's supposed to be Australia-only?
If not, your problem is rather different than using app-store restrictions. But it might also mean that you get to have a better solution to the problem that doesn't require multiple versions of the app.
Think about it: the iPhone knows where it is. A 3g phone can get GPS-accurate location info, and the older phones get reasonable approximations anytime they have a phone network connection. That gives you lat/long coordinates.
What then? Since your home area is pretty well defined, it might be simple-- draw a rectangle around Australia on a map, and define "in Australia" as being in that rectangle (being a whole continent comes in handy here). If you want something more precise, feed that lat/long into a reverse-geocoding API (there are many-- Flickr has one, for example) to find out what country you're in.
And voila, you can make the app behave one way in Australia and another way outside of it, and you only need one version of the app to do it.
You can restrict which apps are sold in which country/geographical region. Your Australian app you can restrict to Australia and sell another app worldwide.