is there a way i can test my app before submitting to app store for being not rejected by apple?
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Go to walmart, buy an ipod touch, test your app out, return the ipod touch back to walmart and get your money back. 30 day return policy, should give you plenty enough time to test your app out.
If you plan on making more apps I would just buy an ipod touch and keep it!
John
2009-09-12 08:12:34
nothing beats testing it on an actual device.
John
2009-09-12 12:43:11
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The iPhone SDK download includes an iPhone simulator that you can test apps on. If you mean a test that will give you a "yes or no" answer for the question "will Apple accept this app?" however, then no, there is no such test since the acceptance criteria for the App Store are not rigid (nor even necessarily objective).
Amber
2009-09-12 08:15:02
Never, never rely on just testing within the iPhone Simulator before submitting your application. All of your final stages of testing must be done on an actual device because of how differently they behave from a desktop-based simulator.
Brad Larson
2009-09-12 13:46:40
Agreed, there's no substitute for testing on the real thing. The OP's question was a little unclear as to exactly what they were asking, though.
Amber
2009-09-12 20:45:49
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For rejection by Apple, no. There are some common-sense things you can to do prevent most rejections, but you can never be completely certain. Never use private, undocumented APIs, no matter how much you are tempted by them. Other known rejection reasons are listed here.
The vast majority of rejections are fixable (you persisted a selection in a table view by accident, you used a confusing icon choice in part of your application, or it crashes in a specific case). Others are harder to address, like duplicating the functionality of something built into the device.
For functional and usability testing, this is a question that has been asked several times here:
- "What is your iPhone app testing strategy?"
- "iPhone OS Testing Best Practices"
- "How do you beta test an iphone app?"
In general, learn how to use Instruments, Shark, GDB, the Clang Static Analyzer, and other development tools provided by Apple to profile and debug your application, then examine it from every direction on an actual device for a few days before submitting it for review. Do not submit an application with known crashing bugs.
Brad Larson
2009-09-12 14:04:53