Archived Apps in XCode are a great way to submit new versions to iTunes Connect because they are automatically grouped, tagged and re-signed in the process – you don’t need to manually find the compiled App, zip it & upload with the Application Loader.
If you start at a new Mac without data migration, you can simply copy the folder with all archived App versions to your new users library.
You can find it here:
/Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Archived Applications
Or, if you develop at different Macs, symlink that folder to your Dropbox to have them accessible everywhere :-)
Published on 2011/01/04 12:44.
Filed under: Unsorted Tags: Dropbox, iTC, XCode
If you are an Apple Developer, you will learn to be patient. You will learn that support mails will need days or weeks before they get answered, sometimes pointing to another support address which previously pointed you to that very address you wrote an email to.
If you are developing for the iPhone/iPod/iPad you will wait an average of two weeks before your App gets posted to the App Store.
Patience is something you really need with Apple, especially with the iPhone Developer Program.
Normally you can live with this, because everything is running smooth and you just need to be patient… but what happens when patience won’t help because something really went wrong and noone is doing anything?
Here’s the story:
The Update
It begins with the patience thing again. After waiting for about two weeks to get an update for an App of mine reviewed and accepted by Apple I went to iTunes Connect and updated the description to match the new features.
I was happy that this update was ready for sale just hours before a scheduled promotion on a website.
Removed from Sale
After I was done with the description a very strange thing happened:
That very App vanished from my administration and shortly after that all my other Apps vanished too accompanied by an email from Apple telling me that they have been “Removed from sale” which is a status Apple documents like this: “Removed from Sale (Red) – appears when the binary has been removed from the App Store.”
The FAQ suggests filling out a contact form with the App’s Id to get information from Apple.
Published on 2010/06/21 01:23.
Filed under: Unsorted Tags: App Store, Apple, iTC
