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Can I easily build iPhone apps for my customers without having them signup with the Apple Developer Program?

I do some work for a company and we have an idea. What we'd like to do is throw in a simple iPhone app if they purchase with our company. We'd build the app, but the new business would sell it on the Apple Store. Is this possible without having the business go through all the hoops of signing up for the Apple Developer Program? To be...

How can simulate the IPhone app upgrade process in the SDK simulator.

I'm working on an iPhone app and about to release version 2. We'll be changing the core data model and I'd like to simulate the upgrade process in the simulator before releasing it to users and potentially causing data loss for them. There doesn't seem to be any real good doucumentation on how to do this in a sandbox before releasing i...

Validate my iPhone application

I created an iPhone application for the App Store. I hear that some things are not allowed in the App Store. For example you can't copy existing iPhone functionality. I didn't find information about these App Store restrictions. A friend tell me that I can't develop my own UITableViewCellAccessoryXXX (I mean something different than...

How can I jump to the App Store from a UIWebView link in my iPhone app?

I want to take a user OUT of my app and into the App Store when they click on a link within a UIWebView in my app. But when I click on the link, nothing happens (sim AND device both). How can I jump to the App Store from a UIWebView link in my iPhone app? BY THE WAY: The link in my UIWebView html is as currently follows (minus the self...

Parsing XML with PHP's simpleXML

I'm learning how to parse XML with PHP's simple XML. My code is: <?php $xmlSource = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?> <Document xmlns=\"http://www.apple.com/itms/\" artistId=\"329313804\" browsePath=\"/36/6407\" genreId=\"6507\"> <iTunes> myApp </iTunes> </Document>"; $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlS...

Localized price from App Store

I'm putting links to other apps by the same company into an iPhone app, and we want to display the price of those apps. Is it possible to somehow get the localized price string (amount and currency) that's appropriate for the user? I imagine I'd have to resort to something like screen scraping, but I've seen that people can get quite a l...

How to migrate the old plist and Core Data store to an updated app (iPhone)

Hi I was just wondering, I have an app that relies on Core Data for saving user inputted data and a plist file for keeping track of user settings etc. What happens when I, as a developer, put a new version in the store and a user downloads the update? or a new user downloads the app? How will I make sure their data and settings are not...

ad hoc distribution vs app store distribution.

i want to distribute my app to our few company employees. but when i tried to create ad hoc distribution profile ,it requires device ID for every single device that i want to install my app. it is not possible for me to get IDs.and i am not sure app store distribution actually submits my app for approval (i am not ready for approval yet)...

Updating a free App requires paying if the update is not free?

Hi, I have a free App that I am about to update. After the update it will not be free anymore. People who got my App while it was free - will they have to pay in order to get the new paid version? Thanks. ...

linking to an app on the Itunes store

Possible Duplicate: How to link to apps on the app store A few web searches yield all sorts of contradictory advice on linking from an iPhone app to an app on the store. Here are some links that come up, together with comments from testing: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/anagramania/id360016055?mt=8 -- works great. But is i...

How can I tell the size of my app during development?

My programming decissions are directly related to how much room I have left, or worse perhaps how much I need to shave off in order to get up the 10mb limit. I have read that Apple has quietly increased the 3G & Edge download limit from 10mb up to 20mb in preparation for the iPad in April. Either way, my real question is how can I ga...

Should the rfc1034identifier be removed from the CFBundleIdentifier in plist file?

In my Xcode project's plist file, I can see the value for the key CFBundleIdentifier is: com.mycompany.${PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier} Obviously I will have to change com.mycompany to the domain name of my company, but I have no idea whether the rfc1034identifier should be removed so that it becomes: com.mycompany.${PRODUCT_NAME} G...

Creating an app file that can be installed on an iPhone before it's uploaded to the AppStore

My boss wants me to develop some apps and make them appear on the AppStore. This is a very small company, he paid the iPhone developer program fee and I am responsible for the rest, I have full access to the account. I've finished the development on my mac using the simulator. But now I have to test the app on an actual iPhone before it...

How to go to the app store (from within app) programmatically?

After clicking on a UIView I want to take the user of my app OUT of my app and to another app on the app store. How do i do it? ...

How does Apple locate users where they are for iTunes Store

Is this done purely via banking information on the iTunes account? And/or does Apple use IP look up to locate you? What happens when a users is outside of the 44 countries designated in the iTunes store. ...

Two part question about submitting bluetooth-enabled apps for the iPhone

I have a couple questions about submitting blue-tooth enabled apps on the iPhone. I want to first say that bluetooth is merely an option in the application. The application does not completely rely on bluetooth as there are many modes the user can go in. First, do they require you to have the "peer-peer" key set in UIRequiredDeviceCap...

Is it possible to download and run IPhone apps on an IPhone emulator?

Hi, I am tasked to provide an IPhone client app for our SaaS website. I have never written an IPhone application, nor do I have an IPhone at the moment. Before I can decide whether or not I want to do this myself or outsource this, I'd like to try a few apps myself to get a feeling for the UI. Is there any IPhone emulator I might use ...

App crashed on app store, not in local version

I ran into a horrifying bug when my app went live. It crashes in a spot where it had been fine. 1) download from app store using complimentary review code 2) start app 3) press start button 4) CRASH NOTE: crash reoccurs at every app startup until phone is rebooted - then it disappears When I try to replicate without the app store 1) st...

Some approaches to distribute an iPhone application to run in a specific location

My boss wants to distribute the application for a specific client, whose number of employees is around 500. The application uses webservices and the UDID of the device to restrict the other users from accessing the software. We are not a big company that can register for the enterprise program, and especially my boss does not want other ...

Remove In-App Purchase from free app and increase the price

The current version of an application in the App Store is free and has very limited functionality. An In-App Purchase unlocks everything else. I have decided to remove the In-App Purchase and just make the application cost the same price as the In-App Purchase did. But if I make the update now, then those users who have the free version...