recently I uploaded my app internationally. I found that the app is selling in China compared to other countries that I localized my app to.
So, I would like access to Chinese Apple App Store so that I can read their feed back if there is any. But I only have ID for North America, not China.
I tried http://www.apple.com.cn/itunes/ but this page is for downloading iTunes for Chinese users.
any ideas? many thanks.
I don't know about the web interface, but you can switch the store from within iTunes. There is a little country flag all the way down in the right corner. Click on it to get to a page where you can choose the country whose store to show.
You can browse other countries' stores, you need the ID only to buy.
Especially for languages you don't speak fluently, the following can also be helpful and will display your app (or any other app) in your browser in the language of your choosing. Search your own app on the web, you'll find a link like:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/groink/id452227727
You can view the same information in other stores by changing the store identification part - "us" in the example link above for the United States store.
To see the Chinese page of your app, it would suffice to change "us" to "cn":
https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/groink/id452227727
A quick and easy way to find what you're looking for.
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I have been getting into iOS 6 and its Share functionality. I see that some people (e.g. apple in their app store), pre-populate the Facebook share pop-up with some relevant text, while others leave this empty for users to fill (providing only the image/url).
I see the benefits with the former (since you can save users time) e.g. by posting: "Loving this new app". But equally, if this section is left blank then users are more likely to create a personalised message.
Does anyone know the best practise?
Ok so it looks like the iTunes App Store does pre-populate these fields with the app name and developer name.
However just had this pointed out to me by a colleague at work:
The relevant part of Facebook's platform policy is section IV. 2 here:
https://developers.facebook.com/policy/#integration
Guess the jury is still out?
Copying the iTunes link for an app includes my home country, but sharing this same link with people in Hong Kong fails to surface the app.
This SO post shows how to craft one using the app name, but what if we want to reference the app ID and not the app name (since we may change the name based on a user survey)?
What's the right iTunes app URL for global sharing purposes? In other words, the same URL should lead to the app regardless of the user's country.
Use this
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=516500375&mt=8
Just replace id with your app id and you are done.
Hope this helps you...
iTunes doesn't offer any links that are truly global.
You can use third party services that are free like GeoRiot or SmartURL that are built specifically to solve this problem for the iTunes store.
Simply copy/paste any iTunes link into the form on the home page and each of the services return a link that can be used world-wide.
I fear that I must link to the App Store of the users country. How could I do that automatically?
For example, the link I've got from Apple is this:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=99999999999&mt=8
It opens up iTunes but fails loading the app. They say it takes up to 24h until it's there. So that is the link I can give anyone, no matter if from US, India, Australia or Holland? I'm confused because sometimes Google throws me at URLs like this one:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id308928075?mt=8
These URLs show an app description in the web browser, and obviously they're localized. This one is for us, but you could enter any country code for /us/ to see the special description.
So is it intelligent to link to the first, very long URL (itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore...) or is it better to link to the US page of the app description online?
You're correct that the web links are localised. However, if you click 'View in iTunes' from that link or indeed launch any link that opens iTunes then the user is taken to the product on the correctly localised version of the store. I've just tested it with the web link you give above — clicking 'View in iTunes' took me to your product on the UK store, with UK pricing.
The direct to iTunes link you supply doesn't work, but you seem not to have substituted your product id for the 99999999999 placeholder.
I'm not sure which you'd consider better; Apple seem to be pushing the web preview URLs, based on the new behaviour of right clicking and selecting 'Copy Link' while in iTunes itself. Also, the type of link that you expect to open iTunes, with your product id substituted (ie, http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=308928075&mt=8) now appears to go to the web preview rather than to open iTunes. As a quick tip, this appears to be the 'international' version:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/id308928075?mt=8
i.e. just remove the 'us'. My browser still went to the US listing based on the price and reviews, but I'll bet it does something to at least get the display language correct.
We have an app on the store that if searched for by name or company it appears and we can download it, in fact it is getting downloaded, but it does not list in its category?
I have checked the iTunes Connect MetaData and it is in the category Education and is free, but if we list all free education apps it does not list. We also looked to see if it would appear in the for sale listing just in case but does not.
Any body experienced this before?
Did you just release it? iTunes takes a while to refresh if it was just released.
Otherwise, I would consider looking at it's rankings on something like www.appannie.com (it's free to search for apps and view rankings) to see if it is seeing it also.
Otherwise, contact the appstore team
I would like to launch Apple's Stocks app to show information for a particular stock, on a non-jailbroken phone. I'm not interesting in how to get a quote or graph a stock myself, just opening Stocks.app.
I was hoping that the Stocks app would have a custom URL format, so opening a URL like stocks://AAPL would do the trick. But I haven't found anything documenting such a scheme, and suspect it doesn't exist.
Any other ideas, or is it impossible to integrate with the native Stocks app?
It doesn't exist, Apple publishes a list of iPhone URL schemes - Mail, phone, text, Maps, YouTube, and iTunes.
Maybe you could just pull the stock info yourself? There must be some kind of web service you can use.
Unfortunately this is not possible as Apple pulls its stock information from Yahoo! Finance. Maybe you can try opening a UIWebView/Safari and direct to the Yahoo! Finance as the next best thing?