I have one app online into my itunesconnect account and recently I have created a new app of the same service.
I started a new one because it was less time spending started a new app from scratch. Now I want to notify to the users of my older app that there is a new app that is the upgraded of the older one.
There is any way to send a popup through itunes connect because I'm the owner of both?
thanks for any kind of suggestion
Push notification should be your answer or you can implement an alert for old app that can be triggered later via an endpoint or push notification as well.
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i am building a website which needs to send reminder messages to iOS (and Android) devices at certain times/dates. So not to a specific app on an iPhone, but to the iPhone itself.
like in the way the reminders app on the iPhone works: even when the app isn't active, reminders pop up.
For the last two days i've been googling on-and-off and reading about apns and firebase etc., but every script and tutorial understandably mentions tokens and id's that you need to receive from Apple and/or Android to get it to work.
One thing i can't find on google is: do i need to have an developer ID or something for this? I'm no xcode or swift programmer, i mainly work with php and query etc. and hopefully can avoid paying yearly for a developer license with Apple or Google.
Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction?
And surely any pointers to a good service or script to use is also very helpful. In the mean time i'll keep digging.
Thanks in advance for any help!
If you want to be able to run your app on an actual device you need to be registered developer, to be able to create certificates and provisioning profiles to sign your app with. You also need to be able to create certificates to be able to send push notifications.
You write that you want to send notifications directly to the phone. This isn't possible. All push notifications must be sent to an app. It doesn't matter if the app is running or not. Which makes sense. Otherwise you would be able to send push notifications to any iOS device out there...
I'm working on an iOS app containing in-app purchases. From time to time, we'll release new IAPs for users to buy. To do that, we'll need to release new versions of the app, e.g. we'll release v1.0.4 containing new IAPs. We plan to offer users a way to receive push notifications, telling them when new IAP products are available.
My problem is: how can I send the notification so that users can tap on the notification and immediately purchase the product?
If we send the notification the very instant that v1.0.4 is released, users won't be able to tap on the notification and buy the product, because they can't possibly have downloaded v1.0.4 yet. We could delay the notification for a day or two, but some users/devices will necessarily straggle behind regardless.
We could send a push notification redirecting users to the App Store to update the app. But we wanted users to tap the notification and immediately see the Buy screen for our new IAP. Making users tap on a notification, then tap Update, then wait for the download, then re-open the app, and then buy the IAP is a lot of hassle for our users.
How do other developers handle this problem?
The best way to handle this is to allow the old version of your app to download the content of the new IAP without upgrading to a new binary version.
Apple allows you to submit IAPs that are not associated with a binary; just fill in the metadata, upload a screenshot, and tap "Submit for Review." In that case, Apple just reviews the metadata, because they can't review the IAP's content.
Once that's approved, the old v1.0.3 app can receive a push notification that the new content is available. When the user taps the notification, the app can refresh its list of in-app purchases (e.g. by making a web request to your web site), download the new content, and make it available to users without a new v1.0.4 release.
You might want to submit a new release anyway, to include the content in the app bundle, and so as to present release notes to users in the list of updated apps in the App Store.
As far as I understand it, every time I release an update to my iPhone app, Apple somehow notifies all users of my app update.
Is there a way to selectively target certain users, as dictated by my server for example, to receive update notifications? So only users with the property 'X' would get a notification when a new version of the app was available.
Apple doesn't notify anyone about your app update other than through the App Store app. There is nothing you can do to prevent this. All users will be able to access your update.
However, if you wanted, you could add a feature in your app that check your server to see if there is an update, and for some desired users you could show an alert letting the user know there is an update.
No, there is no such way. You can't manipulate the behavior of the App Store app.
I m a iOS Developer. I m new in this field. I m working on an App which is for an enterprise company.
I m little bit confuse that, how we give update notification to user if we upload new version of app on our website not on AppStore because i m using Distribution of Enterprise Application through a website. i upload link there and employees download apps from that link.
Now i want to make new version of that app then what will i do that my previous version users receive notification to update old app to new app.
Plz guide me
There are 3 principal ways:
Email - it's an enteprise application, you should now the emails of your employees
(not everybody uses email on their iPades, sometimes they can forget about emails)
Push notification (they can be disabled and suffer from the same problems as emails - it's only an alert that can be dismissed and forgotten)
In-App checking - the application should check by itself if it has the latest version installed and ask the user frequently to update or even block the usage of the app if not updated (if the use case makes sense). This works best with a push notification and also with email for major updates (to inform users about new features).
you can notify all your app user by using Push Notification.
Obviously you can use the push notifications only if you have implemented them in your previous version of the app which is already there in the devices. If not implemented then you can't use push notifications for this purpose.
If not, then my suggestion is that you can manually inform them through mail and implement the push notifications in this version. So that you can use the same for new version to notify them.
Suppose we send email of updation to all employees to update the app but what is the process or line of code to that when employee download the app from link then previous app updated into new app
I want to add free subscriptions to a newsstand app i've been working on, the only problem I can find out how to do this is from this guide. However as helpful as that is you have to use urban airship, where it cost $0.10 per subscribe, so for a free app, it'd be costing me, which i couldn't afford to do every month.
Are there any other ways;
How would i set up a server my self?
Would it be the same for any IAP stuff?
Thank you in advance.
Apple requires that Newsstand apps offer its contens using iTunes managed subscriptions. This means you have to run a server that hosts the Newsstand content, which won't be free.
Your only alternative is to release your app as a non-Newsstand app, build the content into your app, and release an App Store update when it's time for a new issue. This isn't ideal as only Newsstand apps have background downloading.
So... get some funding, or find someone else with a Newsstand app who will host your content for free :)
I'm in the same boat. Right now I'm considering using the JavaPNS API to send push notifications. (Local notifications wont work since they don't wake up the app when its not active).
As far as hosting goes... for some unknown reason Google AppEngine does not support JavaPNS.
I'm thinking about writing a JavaPNS program and running it on my own laptop daily to send out push notifications.
The only thing I have yet to figure out is how to get a list of users who have subscribed to my app. If the user must register the device token with my server then that means my server will have to be running all the time, which I cant do. Man I hope I don't have to use urban airship.
There should be a free way to do this. Hopefully we can figure this out...