Just a quick question. For the sake of time we plan on just creating an app which opens the browser and points to our website. Down the line an update will provide the rest of the functionality.
In your experience, would this app get approval? If not what would I need to do to get approval?
Cheers,
RJ
Don't think it will be approved:
2.9 Apps that are "beta", "demo", "trial", or "test" versions will be rejected
2.12 Apps that are not very useful, unique, are simply web sites bundled as Apps, or do not provide any lasting entertainment
value may be rejected
2.13 Apps that are primarily marketing materials or advertisements will be rejected
Although I can't quote from the App Store Review Guidelines directly because it requires a developer account, I can say that point 2.12 suggests that that app would not get approved.
My suggestion is that you read the review guidelines to get an idea of what is required to get approval.
I know of apps on the App Store that are nothing more than a UIWebView. See this link for proof of it: App Store and UIWebView
In order to enhance the user's experience, you could also consider using phonegap or appcelerator
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I'm going to have a demonstration for high school students. I need to have an app to show them how cool technology is and how simple it's to develop Facebook app.
Therefore I don't have any privacy policy and I'm just looking for a quick app to build for it.
Would it be possible to approve one for that specific use?
This is my app url:
https://developers.facebook.com/apps/658887610853081/settings/
Thanks
No. You can not publish it without getting it approved. You can add testers though.
We have a mobile site for our existing website. We have just created an iOS application with back and forward buttons along with an activity indicator. Will it be rejected by Apple? If yes, what else we can include to get the app approved for the App Store?
It will be rejected
The App Store submission guidelines say:
2.12
Apps that are not very useful, unique, are simply web sites bundled as Apps, or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected
I've also heard many stories about people who have made 'apps' for their website that might even have features like automatically logging in the user, that Apple still rejected.
we are developing an iPhone app as an extension of a classifieds system (web site). On that web site users can buy (prepaid) credits and use them to boost and promote their ads. Will Apple reject our app if we implement consumption of credits? We are not gonna allow buying the credits, just using them (users will still have to buy credits on the web site).
Only worrying thing I found is item 11.2 in App Store review guidelines:
11.2 Apps utilizing a system other than the In-App Purchase API (IAP) to purchase content, functionality, or services in an App will be
rejected.
Is there a way to contact Apple directly regarding this question?
And a add-on question. I suppose we can implement a payment gateway system like Amazon and Ebay and get a way with buying credits? I don't see any restrictions in guidelines regarding non in-app purchase system.
"In-app purchase" is only required to purchase content or extra-functionality or extra feature or to remove any type of limitations inside the application. To achieve these things you shouldn't use any other external purchase mechanism (per App Store review guidelines ยง11.2).
In your application, the user will only use the available credits which are already bought on your website, so there is not an issue, although you shouldn't provide any type of link to your website inside your application.
Genererally "will Apple reject this if..."-questions can only be answered as such:
Apple does as they like. If they feel this in some way breaks the review guidelines, they will reject it and tell you, but you have no way of knowing for sure until you have submitted the actual app. In your case, I can't see why they would ban it, as you are not able to use real money within the actual app, but as I said, you don't know.
If you want to try to get an answer from Apple, you can try to contact them from this page.
I finally got an answer from Apple. It took a while and it wasn't worth a wait. I think Siba was right, but I'll get back to you after we submit our app just to verify everything.
Apple replied:
Thank you for taking the time to contact us about your app design and concept questions. I understand that you would like to know if you
implement consumption credits into your app would be acceptable for
your app.
While we cannot pre-approve apps, we can address compliance questions
about specific App Store Review Guidelines or sections of the iOS
Developer Program License Agreement (PLA). I understand that this may
be a little frustrating and I apologize for any inconvenience this may
cause, however, we may only answer specific questions concerning the
following resources, unless the app is submitted for review so that we
may test the functionality.
I want to test my application's facebook integration.
My application is not released in the appstore yet.
What should I do with bundle ID and appstore ID?
What data to should I write there?
will it work if I provide bundleID and appstore ID of my unreleased but registered app in appstore?
There is no need to give the Appstore Id and Bundle Id... just leave it as blank... Now only I Tested it works fine
I'm not exactly sure what is the question - If the question is "Will i be able to implement Facebook for iOS without the app is registered on the App Store" , the answer is Yes.
I usually use and recommend the Facebook iOS SDK which can be found on Github : https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk
Facebook also has a really nice guide about the basics of creating the implementation on iOS which can be read here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/mobile/ios/build/
I know that apple made the app store to, among other things, discourage web apps and control an unfair 30% cut of app transactions. Luckily for me, my rev comes from companies that are listed on the app, not users.
However, I want an app that does nothing but immediately open default browser and navigate to my webapp page. There is not even intermediary screen - See app icon/name on phone desktop, click, browser with webapp url launches.
Will this have problems getting approved by apple? If so what are the issues that I need to circumvent/overcome, and suggestions to do so? Thanks.
App Store Review Guidelines, 2.12:
Apps that are not very useful, are simply web sites bundled as apps, or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected
You can essentially do this using the apple-mobile-web-app-capable and apple-touch-icon attributes supported by Safari, and you'll save the $99 fee.