I am going to upload my app at app store, n will have to upload next version of app after some time, how i can update to users regarding newer version of app?
should i implement push notification or apple will take care of this?
If your app already has support for push notifications, you can send out a notification, but it's to late if your app is published without a push notification implementation.
When your new version of the app is accepted and published by the App Store, the App Store will notify your users that an update is available. Don't bother with push notifications just for telling your users that a new version is available.
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Lets suppose some app developers use our SDK. Can we send push notifications to devices that use our SDK independently, without the help of hosted app?
I know that push is unique to every app , multiple push keys , settings can't be made.
But I just like to know if any other options are available.
Our goal is to send push for devices that use our SDK.
Thanks.
This is not possible using Apple Push Notifications. Sending an Apple Push Notification to an iOS Application requires a certificate that is unique for each application. You would need to receive the certificates from the developers of those apps.
In addition, the apps would have to register to APNS and send the device token to your server. This part can be done as part of your SDK, assuming the users of your SDK call some SDK method that performs the registration and sends the token.
If I submit a newstand app that does not use push notifications, but instead queries my server for new content each time the user launches the app will apple reject my app?
I.e. Do users expect push on all newsstand apps?
Thanks
No, Apple's guidelines do not mandate the use of push notifications, and your app should not be rejected for not using them. However it may provide a better experience for your users if you implement push notifications. Otherwise the only way for a user to know that updates are available is to manually run your app and check.
Note that the official review guidelines for a Newsstand app are exactly the same as the review guidelines for any other app.
Aroth has answered the question correctly but I want to add few important points to keep in mind for Newsstand apps based on my personal experience.
Apple will reject any Newsstand app without subscription in it.
In case all your content is free still you have to create a Free
subscription.
The content must be a magazine/newspaper/newsletter.No catalog etc
in Newsstand.
The new content must come with frequency of at most a quater.
To answer this question
Do users expect push on all newsstand apps?
YES they will, because it is one of the most important functionality of NS apps and is assumed by default. Every single NS app in App Store has it.
While the technical answer is "no", there is a very good point to implement push notifications. The end user is expecting to see fresh content "magically appearing" in the newsstand applications without actual interaction. For this feature to work, you need to implement background downloading on new issues, data, whatever, which is possible when you have an APNS server informing (and waking up) your application on new content.
I can confirm that a newsstand app with a method for in app purchase of a Free subscription but without automatic content pushing will not be rejected.
Apple just approved an app I've been working on that only has a Dummy "functionality" for subscribing to Free subscription.
User touches "Subscribe now for free", goes through in app purchase and that's it - nothing changes.
Sole purpose of that button is to get the app approved.
Btw. I've implemented that button only 'cause of this thread.
Thanks!
I have an app version 1.0 which is on Appstore, now I want to update this app and also want to integrate push notifications to this app. Now my question is since the provision profile, that signed with last version ,has not been configured for push notifications, now If I configure the push notification ,will push notifications will be available on updating the app.
You need to recreate the profile, redownload it and resign the new version with this in.
You can verify it is enabled by creating an ADHOC profile and doing some live testing (which you should be doing anyway!)
Does anyone know if you can send a user to an app's update in the appstore?
We want to do this from within the app and/or when getting a Push Notification.
Thanks!
Yes, it is possible as long as you have the URL that links to your app.
I'm not 100% sure, but I seem to remember seeing something in the apple rules that means you may not be able to send a push notification advertising new apps. But an update may be ok.
Remember as well that a user may have already updated the app because they had the badge on the AppStore icon and then you push a notification out to all users. Could be annoying.
i would like to check:
if a user downloaded my app, than i make some update to app, data etc., itunes will auto remind the user of the update through app store, and the user can update for free? or do i have to set such reminder in my application?
else, is there a way for me to send this notification?
thks
Rgds
Yes, the phone notifies of app updates through the App Store app and app updates are free.
Alternatively, you can use push notifications to notify the user that a new version is available, or display an alert the next time they open the app.
To do the latter you can query the version of the app ([[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:#"CFBundleVersion"];) and compare it to a value provided by your web server.