How can I alert a user while installing an app or downloading it from app store? If anyone knows please help me. For example "http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/comics/id323397665?mt=8" when I try to download this it is giving me some alert related to age limit. For generating these types of alert do I need to code it in my application or are there any specific settings while uploading the app into app store?
You cannot control these kind of alerts. The alerts you mention are generated by Apple and effected by the limitation your application has according to the details you provided (and Apple approved) when you upload you app to the store for the first time.
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App is built in flutter using Firebase authentication. When Apple review team tries to sign in by using provided testing phone number and they always stuck at reCaptcha based authentication screen. They are seeing attached screen forever.
App store rejected by giving reason:
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I have tried following things:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/ios/phone-auth#set-up-recaptcha-verification - As per this link i have done same configuration in Xcode, Put my REVERSED_CLIENT_ID in the URL schemes,
iOS URL Scheme in xCode
Also I have done APNs authentication key at firebase side,
Firebase APNS Configuration
However, I am unable to reproduce this issue at my end. But though, I tried all the possible solution based on answers on the SO. Still issue doesn't resolved for them.
Please let me know if am I missing some configuration?
Have you tried this?
Go to your firebase Project settings => App Check => Apps
Register your apps for app attention.
My app is already in app-store and google-play-store. How to republish my app because I made changes. Please tell me the procedure. Thanks in advance
You do not mention too much information, but I guess you want to release updates to the apps. It can be done by raising the app versions which is similar for both stores and resubmit for iOS and upload new apk for android.
Just bump up the version number
New user interface is tricky if you are visiting after so many days:
Login to google android console at developer.android.com
Select your app.
Find pricing and distribution in store presence
Click Publish in App Availability
In one of our project we have 2 binaries, one for iPhone and other for mac. These two application communicate each other to achieve the functionality. We want the user to download and install the iOS app first and then let him download the Mac application.
Is there a way to restrict the user, if the user try to download the mac app before downloading the iPhone app?
Short answer: If you're referring to the Mac App Store, then no.
Long answer: Both, the App Store and the Mac App Store give you no way to control who downloads your app and you are not able to get information about what a user already downloaded.
You could of course ask for an e-mail address in your iOS app and make sure your users register to a server before you e-mail them a link to a private download page (not the Mac App Store).
General advice: I think there is something wrong with the design of your app. It's not clear to me what you're trying to achieve and I bet your users won't either. If you want to make sure they pay for the iOS app before using the Mac app then just alert them in case they downloaded the Mac app first. You need to write some custom service to check for this of course. If there is some functional problem that requires the iOS app to be launched first then you should solve this yourself and not put that burden on the shoulders of your users.
You could allow anyone to download, but simply block any operation until the iOS app has sent some kind of approval token to a server or iCloud for example.
You have to download mac application first, and after downloading you can check if user downloaded iOS app or not, but before downloading you can't check the downloading state of iOS app, because application will upload on appStore not on your personal store.
After downloading iOS app set some flag value on server, and check this flag value on mac app downloading, it it is 1 then download else show alert.
After iOS app downloading -> Set flag value (ios Download=1) to your server.(make web service for this).
After downloading mac app -> Call you web service to check that flag value. if it is 0 then show alert to download iOS app first.
I'm getting ready to submit an App that relies on the user being at specific locations to watch a video. (Kind of a mashup of geocaching and youtube.) Needless to say none of these videos are anyway near Apples headquarters. So how will the App store review people be able to properly review the App? Do I have to provide test data in their vicinity or can I instruct them to fake their geolocation to a location that works?
I guess the best way is to just submit it once, wait ~7 days and see what they have to say,
but since they have special toolchains to test apps, it shouldn't be a problem.
Just make sure to mention it in the review notes.
I've submitted an update to an app once that requires an user and password to login, and gave them a test user. When I checked the server logs, they never logged in once - but the app was still approved.
The iOS Simulator can 'fake' its location :) Though I doubt what they DO review in their process, because once they accepted one of my Apps' update which crashed upon launch...
Recently had to deal with this myself... submitted a location specific app without any extra review notes, and the app got rejected. In the rejection notice I was given the instruction to create a video of the app in action and then provide a link in the review notes.
So I used another iPhone to take the video, put some basic explanation text in the video using iMovie, uploaded to YouTube, put the link in the reviewers notes, re-submitted the app and then 5 or so days later it was approved.
As I understand, they review team does NOT test the usability nor stability of your app during app reviewing. All you need to do, is to provide an testing account, and some sample data, screenshots to them helping understand how your app works. If the app does not show any data because of a reasonable circumstance, it's not the problem of your app quality nor user usage, but data coverage. So you won't have problem with it.
When the user selects "Reject" on my Terms and Conditions page, I'm able to display an alert, but I can't figure out how to exit from the application completely. Is there a way to do that?
Apple discourages apps from quitting themselves—it gives the user the impression that the app has crashed—and based on the fact that I've never seen an app display terms-and-conditions nonsense when it starts up, I'd guess that that's a surefire way to get your app rejected from the Store in any case. iTunes Connect allows you to provide custom license text when you're submitting the app; I'd recommend just using that.
I just faced this challenge and thanks to #Noah Witherspoon I found how to set a custom license in order to be shown before downloading the app from AppStore. Please refer page 52 of the iTunes Connect Developer Guide in order to see what would happen when you do that.