Appstore submission process

 iPhone app development cycle

Here is the iPhone app development cycle and required communication between you and us.
Stakeholders:
1. iPhone App Developer( “Dev” i.e. us)
2. iPhone app seller (“Client” i.e. you)
Firstly, an iPhone cannot be run on any iphone/ipod if it is not downloaded from itunes app-store and then installed to iphone/ipod by syncing( same as syncing music, pics etc. via iTunes).
Dev is a registered Apple Developer. He also registered his iPhone,iPod to Apple and apple in return gave him a certificate. Using this certificate
he can use his devices as debugger only when the devices are connected to his Mac machine using XCode IDE.
Clients or sellers need to register in any of the ADC programs. For example we have a registered standard program account i.e. we can also sell free/paid from iTunes along with development.
Now, how the Client will test/run the app? For this also, Client need to register http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/ in a program standard/enterprise.
Then, from the control panel he need create certificate with his device ids( device id can be seen via itunes once connected, we can show you if u need).
After that, he has to send this certificates to the Developer. This is called AdHoc certificate. Using this certificate an app can run on those registered devices.
Now, the Developer will install the certificate on his Mac and make an app executable using this adhoc certificate. Then, he will mail this app/executable to the client.
The client will download the app and drag it on itunes and then sync his iphone/ipod.
But, this executable cannot be submitted to app-store and also wont run any other devices other than the ones registered in the AdHoc certificate.
To submit any app to app-store i.e. to sell/distribute an app using app-store, the executable must be compiled with with a Distribution certificate.
Distribution certificate is to created by the seller i.e. the client. It is similar to creating adhoc certificate. At this moment client must provide an app icon to the developer.
Then the client again send the distribution certificate to the developer. Developer compiles another build with it and sends the app-build to the client.
Then the client will download this build and submit to itunes app-store.
Once you are registered to the ADC standard($100) or enterprise($299) program from here http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/
you will have a nice control panel. There are nice step by step guideline there.
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So, in short:
1. Client Gives requirement to Developer
2. Developer develops the app
3. Client gives ad-hoc certificate to the developer.
4. Developer gives ad-hoc build to the client
5. Client Test the ad-hoc build on his iPhone/iPods
6. Client  gives the distribution certificate to the developer
7. Developer give distribution build to the client
8. Client submits this distribution build to app-store
9. App-Store takes around 1 week to review and then make it available on iTunes App-Store
Btw, the Client must also provide AppIcon or size 57px X 57px to the developer.
Client also need to have the same image of the AppIcon of size 512 X 512 to submit the app on app-store.

Creating a custom Table View Cell programmatically

Ohhk, quite a lot of things done but this one is something which I have used most often. Custom cells can sometimes greatly push ahead the usability of your application. In this post I am going to create a test project which will demonstrate how to create custom cells and use them appropriately to provide better usability. The application will finally look like this:

So to start open xcode and create a new project, chose the template as “Navigation Based” and name it as “CustomCellTestProject”. What template you chose does not matter, refer my previous posts to find how you can start working on any template.

First thing we will do is create a customCell. Right click on Classes and add a new UITableViewCell subclass. Name it as “CustomCell”. Now open CustomCell.h and add the following code:

#import

@interface CustomCell : UITableViewCell {

UILabel *primaryLabel;

UILabel *secondaryLabel;

UIImageView *myImageView;

}

@property(nonatomic,retain)UILabel *primaryLabel;

@property(nonatomic,retain)UILabel *secondaryLabel;

@property(nonatomic,retain)UIImageView *myImageView;

@end

We create the three elements and added them to the contentView of our cell.
synthesize all the three elements in CustomCell.m as we are going to access these elements from other classes.

@synthesize primaryLabel,secondaryLabel,myImageView;

Here we have simply added a primary label to display the primary text, a secondary label and an imageView. These elements will be created and added into the content view of our custom cell. So open CustomCell.m and add the following code

- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier {

if (self = [super initWithFrame:frame reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier]) {

// Initialization code

primaryLabel = [[UILabel alloc]init];

primaryLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentLeft;

primaryLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:14];

secondaryLabel = [[UILabel alloc]init];

secondaryLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentLeft;

secondaryLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:8];

myImageView = [[UIImageView alloc]init];

[self.contentView addSubview:primaryLabel];

[self.contentView addSubview:secondaryLabel];

[self.contentView addSubview:myImageView];

}

return self;

}

Now, we have already added the UI elements into our cell but you must have noticed, we have not yet defined how these elements will appear inside cell. Go ahead and add the following code for that:

- (void)layoutSubviews {

[super layoutSubviews];

CGRect contentRect = self.contentView.bounds;

CGFloat boundsX = contentRect.origin.x;

CGRect frame;

frame= CGRectMake(boundsX+10 ,0, 50, 50);

myImageView.frame = frame;

frame= CGRectMake(boundsX+70 ,5, 200, 25);

primaryLabel.frame = frame;

frame= CGRectMake(boundsX+70 ,30, 100, 15);

secondaryLabel.frame = frame;

}

You can do anything in this method to define the lay out of cell. I have simply assigned frames to all the elements.

You can also find a method in CustomCell.m

- (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated {

[super setSelected:selected animated:animated];

// Configure the view for the selected state

}

This method can be used to define how your cell should react when it is selected. You can describe what should be the highlight color or may be you want to flash one of the labels anything of your choice. I am leaving this method as it is.

We are done with creating our custom cell and now we have to use it. Open RootViewController.m and import CustomCell.h at the top.

#import “CustomCell.h”

I am going to create 5 cells here, you can just use your own logic of specifying number of cells and data. So change the following method to look like this:

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section {

return 5;

}

Now we are going to use our custom cell. If you look at the cellForRow method, you will find that a UItableViewCell has been created and re used. Now all we have to do is to replace this cell with our new cell. Change the code inside this method to look like this:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

static NSString *CellIdentifier = @”Cell”;

CustomCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];

if (cell == nil) {

cell = [[[CustomCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];

}

// Set up the cell…

switch (indexPath.row) {

case 0:

cell.primaryLabel.text = @"Meeting on iPhone Development";

cell.secondaryLabel.text = @"Sat 10:30";

cell.myImageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"meeting_color.png"];

break;

case 1:

cell.primaryLabel.text = @"Call With Client";

cell.secondaryLabel.text = @"Planned";

cell.myImageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"call_color.png"];

break;

case 2:

cell.primaryLabel.text = @"Appointment with Joey";

cell.secondaryLabel.text = @"2 Hours";

cell.myImageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"calendar_color.png"];

break;

case 3:

cell.primaryLabel.text = @"Call With Client";

cell.secondaryLabel.text = @"Planned";

cell.myImageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"call_color.png"];

break;

case 4:

cell.primaryLabel.text = @"Appointment with Joey";

cell.secondaryLabel.text = @"2 Hours";

cell.myImageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"calendar_color.png"];

break;

default:

break;

}

return cell;

}

I have added some dummy data. You can use your data source to provide data for primaryLabel and secondaryLabel. Please note that I have used three images here. You can use any image of your choice. All you need to to do is copy the images and paste it into your project root folder (which in this case is CustomCellTestProject folder). After pasting the files, in xcode right click on Resources (or any group), select Add >> ExistingFiles and then select all the images you want to add in you project. Once added you can simply use them by their names.

Thats it, go ahead and run the project. You will find something wrong when you compare you simulator screen with mine. If you noticed in the CustomCell.m, I have given some frames to the UI elements. You need to make sure that the height of your cell large enough to accomodate all the elements. So add this following code and you fixed the issue:

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

{

return 50;

}