What is the definitive checklist for Apple app store submittals? [closed]

Answer 1

Apple have Human Interface Guidelines that you must abide by. Also your app shouldn't crash and should not use any private APIs.

Answer 2

Testpad - iOS App Store Submission Checklist

This is one of the example checklists on the testing tool I'm building. There are some useful comments about its contents over on Hacker News.

Answer 3

It has become a known fact that Apple has created walls of standards around the App Store. And if any app, no matter which parent company it belongs to, lacks from even a single point, faces rejection or removal from Apple, almost instantly.

Now, to ensure that it doesn't happen with yours too, here's an app submission checklist you should follow for Apple store.

For quick roundup, look out for -

1. Your App should not have any content that is discriminatory, defamatory, or in any way humiliate or intimidate anyone.
2. There should be a process around the user generated content
3. Parental gate for apps in kids category
4. Clear Developer information
5. Proper Metadata
6. App should not be in beta mode.

There are a number of factors that you should consider, all of which have been explained in much detail in the article linked above.

Answer 4

Here's my list that I just updated last night.

Pre-Submission Checklist

1. Update iTunes screen shots
2. Update version number using avgtool
3. Update changelog (spell check it, too!)
4. Update iTunes description
5. Prepare website update text
6. Prepare twitter/blog/tumblr/press releases
7. Compile using ad hoc profile and do one final set of sanity checks
8. Are you sure everything is OK?
9. git tag v1.2 -m 'ready for deployment'
10. build for app store and submit

The list was created because I like use git describe to embed a build number into my app, so I've got to do the final tag before I do the final build, so I need to have all the infrastructure in my project directory before I do that final tag. If you don't care about this, I'd recommend submitting your app and using that 7 days of review time to get everything else (blog updates, website updates) ready to go.

Answer 5

How do we get through the black box? Here are some of my regulars:

• No crashes
• No (big) memory leaks
• Test on several devices with different (minimum and maximum!) OS versions
• Test with different region and language settings
• Consistent UI (use appropriate icons/buttons and expected behavior)
• Artwork: Check default screens, icons. Both in various resolutions
• Check icon pre-rendered state
• Screenshots (without status bar), maybe in several languages
• Description for AppStore, "What's new", maybe in several languages
• If new app: decide on price and categories
• Select Distribution build configuration
• Check signing (distribution profile still valid etc.)
• Check base SDK and deployment target, supported devices
• Submit everything

And probably a thousand things more. :-)

Answer 6

Icon size and iTunesArtwork vary for target device.

Icon Size

• iPhone & iPod Tuch - 57x57
• iPhone & iPod Tuch High resolution 114x114
• iPad 72x72 iPad High resolution 114x114

iTuneArtworks size for all device should be 512x512 but 1024x1024 is recommended for high resolution devices