In my application, I am showing some applications list which are on app store.
I want to get those application's icon image in my application.
I just search but not getting any relevant post on this.
Is there any way to get it? Apple allows to get? Please suggest if there is any way.
Thanks for the help.
apple has an JSON Service for that, where you get a lot of meta data for every application
This is the URL for the Facebook App
http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=284882215
and this a the URL for the Facebook and Twitter App combined:
http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=284882215,333903271
in the JSON you will find URLs of the app icons in attributes artworkUrl60, artworkUrl512 and artworkUrl100
"artworkUrl100":"http://a1170.phobos.apple.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/37/7e/9e/377e9e31-388e-8d10-e414-f478a2f18d29/mzl.pacepjmm.png"
unfortunately those app icons are squared and don't have the rounded corners, you will get app icon how the developer uploaded it.
UPDATE: get data for other countries
if you want to get the data for different countries you can just add the country code in between e.g.
for Germany: http://itunes.apple.com/de/lookup?id=284882215
for France: http://itunes.apple.com/fr/lookup?id=284882215
I think there is an tool to generate AppStore Custom RSS Feeds, it returns links and icons, bu i had never worked on it.
iTunes RSS, With the iTunes Store RSS Feed Generator you can create custom RSS feeds to fit your specific needs. Specify feed length, genres, types, and more.
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I am trying to track traffic coming from Apple News through Google Analytics, submit in RSS format. After online search I found that only if it's submitted in Apple New format. And that RSS feed is unreliable to track with GA.
Is there any other way to do this?
The first link you provided shows that the browser dimension is set as AppleNews for those visitors (I've never used Apple News before, but I'm guessing it's an in-app browser).
This gives you a few options:
Use a secondary dimension of Browser with an advanced search for AppleNews in your Acquisition report.
Create a segment where the Browser matches AppleNews to make it available for all reports.
Create a find/replace filter when the Browser matches AppleNews to change the acquisition data itself (source/medium). You'll want to be careful with his because it permanently alters your data!
The other thought I had is that maybe it's possible to use UTM query strings only when submitting to RSS? If the data is scraping your website you could programmatically update the RSS URL to include UTM parameters to track the source/medium that way (this may have varying success because of other scrapers outside of Apple News).
If you manually submit to Apple News, you could manually UTM tag your URLs so the source/medium is forced to Apple News.
I going to show my other apps in one app. I know only one way to do that - just hardcoded icons, links and names of other applications, but it extremely inconvenient. Is there are way to reach itunesconnect's list of apps via some API?
You can use the iTunes lookup API to accomplish this. All you need is the developer ID of the account you want to lookup.
Here is a sample query for all of Facebook's apps:
https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=284882218&entity=software
The response contains a JSON object for the developer and then for each app, which includes any info you may want to grab such as the name or icon.
Is there a service that allows me to put a form on my site that will send a link to my iOS app to a user?
User goes to my site
User inserts their cell phone number in a field
User receives a text message with the link to download my app
Does this make sense? Is there a better way? I've seen this before but can't remember where...
Currently do people really just take out their iPhones, open the app store, search for the app name to download it?
PS: Before posting I searched Google and this site but didn't find any answer.
Not quite what you're looking for, but probably a lot easier for you to do: You could create a QR-Code that contains a link to your app in the App Store. Then people can scan it with their phones (there are tons of popular apps that can do this), and when it opens the URL, the user will be redirected to the app store.
Just use the https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/[...] link from iTunesConnect for your app.
It is possible to launch another app (such as youtube, AppStore,Map, etc) from my iOS app & give it keyword for searching?
For example, I would like provide to user ability search cartoon video from my app & show the results in Youtube app.
Please share your though/
Thanks,
Huy
The only way to communicate with other apps is through URLs. Have a look at communicating with other apps. To answer your question, just create a URL that contains the search terms.
Since tagged app-store in your question, I'm sure you find this useful: How to link to apps on the app store.
A tip is to use itms:// instead of http://, then it'll open in the app
store directl
I'm having trouble configuring the URL to load an RSS feed of a particular artist's music into my app.
I'm using itunes XMLPerformace test Xcode project available on dev.apple. I simply want to change:
[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wpa/MRSS/newreleases/limit=300/rss.xml"];
into something that will load an artist's songs into the table view instead of the newreleases.
This resource seems to suggest additional feed generator options are availble, just not readily.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/blog/introduction---rss-feed-generator.html
Has anyone come across this?
I just found out apple only offers select RSS feeds. Thus, I can not do it this way.
However, parsing a JSON request from the itunes store api appears to be the best solution anyways.
Itunes Store Api
Parsing the request from there was a breeze.