Inside the iphone contacts, when you edit the contact's address a list of country names shows up in a modal view controller. Is there a way to access this plist of country names from my app?
Probably not. The Contacts app and it's bundled data such as this is accessible only to it, just like every app you might have on an iPhone. Each app is limited to accessing its own data. (There are certainly exceptions to this rule, reserved for Apple's use only. For regular developers, your data is your data and no one can touch it.)
You will likely have to find or build your own table of countries to include in your app. Luckily, the list of valid countries doesn't change too often (although with world events these days, who knows!).
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I have made application only visible to Germany, Now Apple informed to include Monitoring Shape-Based Regions for if the user move away after installing from Germany? How to monitor the region to restrict the application if exceed Germany area?
I have tried with following links
1) Core Location region monitoring
2) Apple: Location Awareness Programming Guide
My doubt is how to restrict application only available to Germany. Should I try with latitude, longitude. And how to monitor the regions/territory exception.
I uploaded it to the app store, but they reject with the following reason :
22.1: Apps must comply with all legal requirements in any location where they are made available to users. It is the developer's
obligation to understand and conform to all local laws.Please see
Monitoring Shape-Based
Regions
for information on how to apply Geo restriction.
My doubt is how to restrict Geo location.
By default, the app will be available in all countries the App Store currently supports, unless you specifically select individual countries/stores. You can choose individual countries.
log into iTunesConnect and click Manage Your Apps. Select your app and click the Rights and Pricing button. You can select the stores you want from this page. For More you can
review the page 48
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Easiest way to solve this topic would probably is to decide which countries you want to make your app available in ? and as i have search something like review countries local laws to see if any thing is illegal related to the app. And this relate to your Questions
What if I make my app available on other countries than usa?
If your application relies on location services to function properly,
you should include the UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities key in the app’s Info.plist file.
You can use this key to specify the location services that must be present in order to execute your application. The App Store uses the information in this key from preventing users from downloading apps to devices that do not contain the listed features.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/LocationAwarenessPG/CoreLocation/CoreLocation.html
this link contains all the information you need.
I'm looking for some app that will be a separated app, where I can keep my contacts, which are not needed in my typical Contacts list. I believe you know, what I mean... if I have some phone number and would like to write it down, I don't want to place it in my Contacts list and makes there a mess.
Noting in Notes is a bit silly and not native. I want something like "Contacts" as a separate app, which doesn't connect with my typical contacts list.
Do you know anything like that? I couldn't find or cannot search :P
You can create separate address books and groups to organize your contacts. But, everything will be exposed through Contacts app.
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 add local languages for the description of my app, and so I made a new version just so I could Localize the description. However, I did not change any of my app to be location-dependent (It's just english, and it's a rather simple resistance-color code calculator app without much text, and operates on the basis of color-codedness.) Will my app be rejected for failing to truly "localize", per se? Is this a stringent guideline or is it okay to just change the app store description language?
I don't know if Apple will reject you on that basis or not. But doing something like that could anger your customers, and I wouldn't blame them. I would suggest that you either localize everything, including the content, or localize nothing. Misleading your customers is not the path to long-term success.
Your app should not be rejected. I've done this. My app is mostly numbers which is universal. I've translated descriptions to 6 languages and the app is in the app store just fine.
Don't mislead your users. Your users are your greatest allies or enemies, depending on your attitude. If you don't respect them, they won't like you.
If you want to make a localization, create a support for multilinguality and you can add languages later on. Also, in my opinion your users should be able to choose the language they want to use your app in. As a default you can choose the language of the region. However, it's rude to localize by location and not letting the users to change their language. If you show respect towards your users you will have greater chance of success.
Is there a way to check whether an iphone application name is available to use? Would a search on iTunes and checking to see if there is an existing application already out there be indicative that an iphone application name is available to use or not?
As pointed out here, even if you search the traditional channels, there may still be someone who has claimed that same name but not submitted an application yet. If you wish to truly test this out, it sounds like you can start the process of submitting an application on iTunes Connect, fill in the name of your new application, but don't complete the submission. You should receive an indication as to whether someone else has this same store name. If not, it appears you now have a claim to that name.
In any case, because you can have a different name in the store than is displayed on the iPhone, you might be able to use a slight permutation on the name for your store submission, and your desired name within the iPhone application itself.
However, I would second sgmeyer's suggestion that you do a USPTO trademark search first before using a name. Trademark infringement can get you in trouble later on.
I would recommend searching the app store for the name you wish to use. Also, you might want to check the United States Patent and Trademark Office www.uspto.gov/ to ensure there isn't a trade mark that exists on the name you choose.
You must search from iTunes Connect as if you are adding a new app, just searching on Google doesn't show app names that are alreadcoques iphone 4
Search the app store, and search google.
I'd say if the name you want to use doesn't turn up in a search on iTunes, you should be in the clear to grab that name. I assume all app names are subject to approval by Apple, also, so make sure you pick something that's not called "iBabyShake."