iPhone App upload

Question

Hi,

I'm uploading iPhone eBooks on itunesconnect.

This is my problem: Recently Apple requires the Bundle Name, Bundle Display Name and Product Name to be set to Author: Title.

there is a technical problem: - the Bundle Name cannot contain spaces - this can be solved by changing the Bundle Identifier using a conversion like rfc1034 example: de.randomhouse.${PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier}

but now there is a naming problem: - if I change the bundle identifier with Apps I have uploaded before and want to upload again after a bugfix, the uplaod is not possible: a change of the bundle identifier is not allowed

this problem could be solved if I could - either change the bundle identifier - or if I could delete the rejected books from the App Store, so that I could upload it completely again

Can anyone help me?

Kind Regards, Ulrich

Answer 1

You don't have to base the Bundle Identifier on the product name. If you have to change the product name, you can keep the old Bundle Identifier by hard-coding it.

For example:

Imagine you have an app called "Crime" with Bundle Identifier in your Info.plist of de.randomhouse.${PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier}. That identifier expands to de.randomhouse.Crime. Now, you must change the product name to "Ivine Welsh : Crime". You can keep the same bundle identifier by changing the entry in your Info.plist to de.randomhouse.Crime. The identifier is now independent of the product name.