Tips for great Apps

January 24, 2010

Please proactively review your apps in iSites to minimize our correction requests:

1.) Is your App title unique? Check the name you hope to use against what is already available in iTunes.

2.) Are your images properly branded with a distinctive logo or image? The App Icon logo must appear prominently somewhere in you Store Banner. All three images should reveal a consistent theme. Think of the “Store Banner” more as a Store Icon. App store shoppers need to recognize it as very similar to the icon they saw on your friend’s iPhone. More importantly, they need to recognize a familiar icon on their phone after downloading your App from the store.

3.) Are your images the specified sizes? Some too short in one dimension slipped through our auto-check. Double check your pixels counts for app phone icon (57×57), the splash screen (320X480), and the store banner (512×512) – a larger version your app’s phone icon

4.) Is there any illegal or inappropriate content? This includes images and content that resemble anything you do not own or do not have the right to manage.

5.) Finally, your app stands a much better chance of getting accepted if it is obvious your app will appeal to more than a handful of users. An app limited to images from a trip taken five years ago is one extreme example of the app that would likely not get accepted. Although our system allows you to add and change content at a later date; you will stand a better chance of initial approval if you add content that would appeal to many. It should be obvious tat you will update regularly. A gallery of photos that does not appear to evolve over time may very likely get rejected.