March 26

Marketing Your App

Found blog link that has some really good tips on how to market your app. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/03/how-to-market-your-mobile-app/ Its very hard to get noticed in the App Store because of so many apps, but there are some good points in the article, mainly: Be Unique Be Tweetable Cater To Blogs Control The Hype

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March 22

Flurry Analytics

I found this really useful site that has free in-App analystics called Flurry. Its actually really good and very easy to embed it in your app. It has location support too which is very handy to see where the bulk of your user-base is from. Am going to definately have this in the next game, which isnt too far away! After signing up on the site, the code usage is really simple too. Get the downloaded SDK and add the Flurry libs to your project. In your Application Delegate, import the Flurry header: #import “FlurryAPI.h” Then inside applicationDidFinishLaunching add a [...]

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March 15

Check For Internet Connection

I found a useful class that will allow you to check if an iPhone is connected to the internet or not. It is really easy to use and has just one function that returns a BOOL with YES or NO. Here is its usage: if ([Connection isConnected]) { … } else { … } And here is the Connection Example sample code. And remember to include the necessary frameworks – SystemConfiguration and libz.1.1.3.dylib. Thanks to xprogress where they kindly posted this example.

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March 6

App Store Distribution

Just a quick note for a check list of items you need for when your about to distribute your app to Apples App Store: Icon Image: Make sure your icon image is 57x57px in .png format. App Store Image: You need to have an image 512x512px image to be displayed on the app store. So a word of advice is to make any icon images as a vector so it can scale nicely to larger sizes for wherever you might need them. Screenshots: Screenshots of your app must be the screen dimensions of the iPhone, 320x480px(portrait) Distribution Certificate: Of course [...]

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