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Submit Your App on Apple App Store – A Step By Step Guide

Is your app quite ready to appear in the App Store but you don’t exactly know how to do that? We’re here to help you out, at least with the first few steps. We’re assuming here that you already have an Apple ID as well as a distribution certificate, and we’re starting from there. Let’s get started. There are four steps you need to go through, so we have a lot of information to go through. Let’s get right into it. Here’s the list with the four steps: Make up the distribution provisioning profile for your application Get an iOS certification Create and include all the data in your listing in iTunes Connect Lastly, you need to submit your work for certification (using Xcode) Creating the distribution provisioning profile If you’re reading this article, you already have made your development provisioning profile necessary for your app, so this process shouldn’t be that difficult. There is a difference between the two that you should know from the beginning though: while the development provisioning profile allows you to include numerous development certificates, the distribution profile doesn’t work the same. In the first one, you are allowed to have more app developers working on the app, but the distribution certificate has to be unique, as well as the signing in information. When you generate the archive, you will need this distribution certificate to code sign your app among the thousands of apps in the App Store. Now, let’s get right down to the steps you need to follow to get your distribution provisioning profile. Start by logging in into iOS’ Developer Provisioning Portal, where you’ve already created the provisioning profile for development. Go ahead and choose the Distribution Provisioning Profile section and tap on that plus button on the right side of the screen. Here you will need to choose your option, which in the present scenario is “App Store” and click “Continue”. Go ahead and also select your application’s ID and choose “Continue”. We hope you’ve already requested a distribution certificate, because this is the place where it would be available. If you did, just select that and press “Continue”. From here on out, we’re almost finished with this step. Click on “Generate” after you’ve given a name to your profile. After this, you can download and install the profile by double clicking on it. Receiving an iOS certification The operating system has to clear your app for it go out in the App Store – they check for malicious programs, any rule breaking or other issues the app might have that the user wouldn’t enjoy very much. If you’re interested in the App Store’s guidelines for their review, you can easily find them on the internet, they are available for everyone to see. After you’ve checked your app for any issues, you can go right ahead to select the root node in the file navigator. Click on the menu “Project Settings”, then on the submenu “Build Settings”. In this submenu you need to choose “Code Signing”, and after that, “iOS Distribution”. This feature connects you automatically with your Distribution Signing Identity. If by any chance, you have numerous of these identities, you should choose your desired identity specifically. After you’ve done that, you can go right ahead to creating the Release build so you can send it to the App Store. You need to select iOS Device for your deployment target. Going further, you need to select “Product menu item”, and afterwards, “Archive”. After this, your app’s archive will be automatically created in Xcode Organizer. You will also be able to see any previous archives you’ve created in this section. Switch to iTunes Connect and complete the App Store listing with all the info needed. Switch once again to the Xcode Organizer and you can alre ady submit the app. Creating the app listing The third step you need to go through is developing the listing for your app in iTunes Connect, a dashboard which will be very helpful to you from now on. You can do various actions in this program, from managing your contacts, to checking out performance reports of your app in the App Store. Start by selecting the button “Manage Your Apps”. After that you can go right ahead to click on “Add New App”. In this section, you will have to enter various data about your app from basic info to pricing and availability. Let’s start out with app information. Press on the bundle ID you’ve created before, and write your app’s name. This will give you the SKU number of your app, which is basically a barcode for your ‘product’. It has no use for iTunes, just for you to identify your product by a unique string of characters. When you’re done with entering all the data necessary here, you just press on “Continue”. Now you’re faced with your App’s Availability: here you need to decide when you want your app to be released into the App Store. You can set it for today, if you want it to go out as soon as possible. This way, after it goes through certification, the app will be released in a matter of 24 hours. If you set it later, but decide in the meantime that you’d want it released earlier, you can manually release it after certification with the help of iTunes Connect. If you want to monetize your app by setting a price of installing, you will need to enter in the “Contracts, Tax and Banking” menu of iTunes Connect, a few pieces of information about your banking account, where all the money will go. After this basic info, you also need to provide info about the app version, contact, art assents, metadata and EULA. With all of these, you should address your developer to help you out. Submit your app via Xcode We’re finally down to the forth step which is submitting your application by using Xcode. Enter Xcode, and select the “Organizer”

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How Google Play Store Does Better Than The Apple App Store

Throughout history, pop culture has always presented us with a few choices that would split most people into two camps. These battles would go global and often times, the side you stuck with said a certain thing about you. You probably know a couple of them and have been on one side or another in some case. Just a couple of examples would be Coke vs Pepsi, Xbox vs PlayStation, Nike vs Addidas and so on. In more recent times, we see another battle erupting at the heart of the tech market. To be more specific, we’re talking about iOS vs Android. The two leading mobile device operating systems have been brawling it out ever since they were released. But as some of you know, mobile platforms are very dependent on the quality of the app store built for them. That means that the marketplace can make or break the mobile OS, so it’s no wonder that many people want to know which platform is better and why. In this article we will shed some light on the subject and give you another perspective may be. No doubt that Apple’s iOS App Store has its strengths, but let’s see how Google’s Play Store manages to come out on top and in what departments. App developers have an easier time on the Play Store There are two sides to this argument. Let’s start off by looking at Apple’s App Store. The platform has made a name for itself as provider of nothing but top quality. Since its release, the App Store has only allowed the top quality apps to pass and thus has gained a reputation for excellence. This is something that pleases the user community, since they are far less likely to encounter bugs or problems with the iOS version of an app. However, from a developer point of view, it can get quite troubling to know that all the hard work you put into your app could be for nothing. Because of these facts, iOS versions of apps do tend to be more popular and also get priority in the development queue over the Android counterpart. However, these are also the reasons why many app developers stick with Android. On Google’s side, developers have an incredibly lower chance of getting rejected. Also, on Android you will see a far wider selection of applications, without taking anything away from Apple’s collection. Apps that significantly alter the aspect or functionality of the entire operating system are available on the Play Store whereas the iOS marketplace lacks in that department. Google Play Apps are seen easier than App Store apps After putting in the work to create an app, then getting past the admission part, developers start worrying about how many people actually see their app in the store, or how visible it is to those searching for it. It is a top concern for developers that when people search for their app, they would get a direct result that will score their app more hits. This isn’t always the case, unfortunately, and that’s to do with how each marketplace handles search queries. Let’s take a look at Apple’s model. In the App Store, developers get a special box when submitting their app. There, they put down all the keywords for their app, and if someone is to find it in the store, they would have to search for one of those keywords. Needless to say, that reduces the total number of people that find, discover or stumble upon your app by quite a lot. Google on the other hand has its store set up so that when a user is searching for something, it will match the search query with app names, app descriptions, and pretty much everything else related to apps. This maximizes the chances of you finding what you were looking for, because it checks every piece of text on the platform to find something matching what you searched for. This is why many app developers choose Android as their development platform, because they have a guaranteed larger discovery rate right off the bat. Google Play Store tells you more about the app If it’s a popular app, it’s probably available on both Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store. You can check out one of your favorite apps on both the App Store and the Play Store to see just how much different the two app pages are. If you don’t have mobile devices on both platforms, you can always access the pages from your computer. On the App Store, you have a very minimalistic approach to app description, with just some screenshots and bits of information scattered across two columns. The only critique is from app reviews which are displayed on the page as a sort of encouraging factor for users that want to try out the app. The Play Store offers just one column, and you just scroll down to gradually learn everything there is about the app. You have screenshots as well as video (which is very important because it gives you the best pre-install notion of the app). Also, you get information about how other users are finding the app and you can filter comments so that you see them by the phone model comment leavers are using. You can even sort them to see the ones from your friends, so you can get a more personal endorsement from the app. Finances are a less stressful on Android’s store Money is a very important factor when it comes to mobile apps. Even though some of the mare free, it is no secret or surprise that all app developers submit their creations in the hopes of getting some monetary gains or at least recognition that would boost their careers and thus lead to fruitful jobs. When it comes to Play Store apps, these are a lot cheaper and often times free, in comparison to Apple’s platform. This is because iOS developers charge more

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