I am a developer working on an open-source project called Freeseer (http://freeseer.github.io/) it is used for recording conferences and talks. I would like to bring live streaming to Freeseer, however in order to develop and test live streaming I need a Google account with 100 subscribers (as listed here http://www.youtube.com/yt/creators/creator-benefits.html).
I am not asking for subscribers, nor am I interested in monetization of the account. I simply want to know if Google provides developer accounts, or can grant development privileges.
(I am well aware this is not a technical question, it is much more suited for a Google group or developer forum, unfortunately the existing one has been closed).
The 100 subscriber restriction was removed last month.
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We develop whitelabelled apps. To comply with apple guidelines, we make our customers create their own apple developer account and then they invite our account to manage theirs (bcs according to apple guidelines it is the content owner that needs to submit the app to the appstore, not the developer of whitelabelled solution).
So far I manage cca 60 accounts (all of them invited one account that I am the Account Holder for). Everything worked fine (other than it makes automation little bit more challenging), until I wasnt able to find one of the teams in the teams list on apple dev portal.
So on appstore connect I saw that I am member of this team with access to dev resources (apple dev portal). But in the apple dev portal this team was not in the list of teams to choose from.
I have left some other teams then, and this team suddenly appeared in the list of teams to choose from.
Conclusion I made is that there is a limit on how many accounts you can manage from one account. I have asked apple if that is true, but it has been several days and no answer (I posted a bug report through their bug reporter, and I also sent this question to them through web form on their site).
Has anyone encountered this limit? if so, do you have information on how big this limit is? And how did you solve this whole situation? Did you create a new apple id that your customers invite to manage their accounts now?
I am kinda lost now, and apple being silent about this (and the fact that I have not found this documented anywhere) isnt really helping.
Yes, there is a team limit of 60 teams per Apple ID. You will need to create a new Apple ID and get your invites on that. (Have currently ~ 5 examples of that, so it's definitely not a bug) And yes, there is no official documentation of that.
We hit the limit the other day. We removed ourselves from some older accounts so I can’t confirm the exact figure, but we have a user that is currently a member of 495 teams, so I expect the limit as of March 2022 is 500 teams.
Beware that App Store Connect is not efficient at all when it comes to this volume, so you’ll be waiting more than ten seconds for some API calls to be made to the backend when you load a page (10s is the time-to-first-byte and the total size of the response is about 100KB, so it’s a backend delay rather than the connection).
I would recommend sharing across multiple accounts long before you hit the limit.
I'm willing to access the top news available in the Apple News app, but it seems the related API only allows users (publishers) to access the content of their own channel. Does someone know a working endpoint or have any other idea to help me reach my goal (maybe a complete lists of channels' IDs currently allowed in the app?).
You are absolutely correct that the purpose of the API is for content creators:
Use the Apple News API to publish and manage Apple News Format
articles.
It does not provide a way for developers to distribute articles from other content creators. For iTunes, Apple's own in-house news, and for Movie trailers, RSS feeds are available. There is even an RSS refiner for iTunes but currently no Apple News equivalent that I am aware of. Whether in future Apple News will be supported in this way I don't know, it will be depend on how they handle the rights of creators.
I was looking online at the Spotify iOS SDK documentation and found this: "The iOS SDK is explicitly prohibited from use for in-car apps, re-streaming aka “listen together” apps, alarm tones, ring-tones, voice-assistants, and offline experiences for wearable or other devices." I was curious what was meant by "listen together apps." I was hoping to create an app in which users in the same place can queue up songs to a shared queue. Is this in violation? What if the users are all Spotify users? Can this be monetized?
Ari from Spotify here - we can answer technical implementation questions but can't interpret the Terms of Service for you. We recommend consulting legal counsel for help with the terms. Regarding monetization, all commercial integrations must be approved by Spotify. You can submit a request for commercial approval directly in the Spotify for Developers Dashboard by clicking "Create a Client ID" and then selecting "Yes" when asked about commercial use.
I know from the Apple developer account we can get how much downloads have done for our particular app. Now our clients asking they want to check the apps downloads without involving developers. Is there any way to find those details besides from the appstore, or else without accessing the developer account
Thanks
You usually see your download numbers in itunesconnect and therefore you can just invite your clients to look into the data there. There are also a number of web services that use the data from itunesconnect to show more details, for instance app statistics.
If you want more data and even logging, many users integrate additional logging features in their apps like google analytics for instance.
If this is not what you are looking for, please give me some more information on what you are trying to accomplish!
I am building a webapp which requires users to regularly top up their account. To allow for this I am exploring the google wallet inapp payments api and have got this working fine. However, I would like users to be given the option to auto-top up when their account balance becomes low. I have looked at the subscription documentation but cannot see whether this is possible or not - it seems you can only have a subscription which draws money at regular intervals.
Is there a way to have a user pre-authorise this kind of transaction, and if so could you please point me to any documentation that would allow for this?
I don't believe so. The subscription feature is probably your best bet and should (unless I'm missing something) get you to the "same place".
A "pre-authorization" somewhat says, you'll come back at some later time to charge (aka "capture") the pre-auth. There is no API command that does that (capture/charge) in Wallet for Digital Goods. The process is immediate...
There (is) used to be one in the Google Checkout API where you are given 7 calendar days to charge a pre-auth. However, this product will be retired in November.