Is there any mechanism provided by Apple Store to make the user sign-up to my website before he/she can download the application?

Question

I am creating an iphone application that requires the users to have an account at my website. But if i have to distribute it through apple store, how should I make the users of this Iphone Application first create an account with my website. There could be a few options like :

1) Ask the user to create an account when he/she tries to run the application on iphone. 2) Provide a 'Sign-Up' page in the Iphone application itself.

My question is "Is there any mechanism provided by Apple Store to make the user sign-up to my website before he/she can download the application".

Kindly give in your suggestions for the same. Which would be the best approach for solving my problem.

Thanks, LG

Answer 1

There's no way to do this through the app store.

Yes: your two options are to create a sign in / sign up screen with cocoa, or to display your login webpage with a NSWebview.

I'd recommend the native control route...

Answer 2

No, you can't do that through Apples App Store.

You could provide the user with aviability to register to your site when opening your app, throug, say a NSWebView.

There are many ways to solve this, just not the one you might like.