Entries from May 2009

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Some things to expect after your app gets launched

OK. So you’ve made it through the ADC signup process. You’ve managed to get an itunesconnect account. You’ve even managed to get some contracts into place, submitted and had your app approved, and now it is on sale!
Well done. This post is to give you some ideas about things to expect [...]

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

If there’s one tip I’d give you when submitting your app, this is it

If there’s one tip you should listen to when releasing your app to itunes connect, it is this one:
When uploading to itunesconnect, set your release date far in the future. When it comes ready for sale, set it back to when you really want to release it.
Here’s why….
So, I finally go through the contracts [...]

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Charging for iPhone App Maintenance

In an earlier blog post, I spoke about how to charge for developing of an iPhone app. A comment was recently added by Finbarr which I think is an interesting question:

One question though. How do you factor in the cost of maintenance? Since all updates to iPhone app’s are free, most [...]

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

App Push: Movie Challenge!

So, continuing with my promise to push an app a week, this week’s Irish made app is “Movie Challenge” (link opens to iTunes), brought to you by the guys at Redwind Software.
Now, I consider myself a movie buff (or was before the kids came along), but this app, complete with its over 5000 questions [...]

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

iPhone – How to do full screen activity status

I’ve seen questions about how feed back to a user that something is pending, where you don’t want any input from the user. An example may be making an XML request for data from your iPhone app back to your server. While it is pending you want to show that your app is [...]