One of my customer provides me an icon including the name of the app Within the icon. I don't find it necessary since the name of the app is inserted below the icon and the icon should contain an explicit logo of the app, nothing else. Not sure it's compliant with iOS guidelines I've looked into the iOS HIG, nothing found.
Any idea on that ?
Thank
I think you can. However you should consider the Apple App Icons Guidelines.
You can see the App Icons Guideline here
I don't know if it's against Guidelines, but your app will not be rejected for this, you can find a lot of applications that have name on icon => Youtube Application
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I know we could change the app icon of the application in iOS 10.3 above and I achieved this successfully, but my question is that could we achieve this using a custom url.
Suppose that the app icon is stored in the backend server and the icon while changed according to the user login in the system. Is it possible?
This is not possible. Any alternate icons must be predefined the the app's info.plist file and are subject to app review.
Check out the documentation here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplication/2806818-setalternateiconname
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines discusses some of the limitations of custom app icons: https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/icons-and-images/app-icon/
In an app's Info.plist the developer has the opportunity to declare custom URL schemes supported by the app. The developer may also associate each scheme with an Apple Icon Image (icns) file in the bundle that will serve as an icon.
I have never seen these URL icons used anywhere, and I can't imagine how they even would be used. Is there any purpose to setting them?
That is not an iOS thing, but is instead intended for OS X/macOS.
You can read some about it here on the macOS Human Interface Guidelines page.
We have a sneaker marketplace app and when people type in "sneaker marketplace" on the iPhone, our app shows up along 2 other apps. The icon is missing though (we're the first app below).
How do I tell Google which icon to use? Where does google get this information from? Why isn't my icon showing up?
If Chrome's app and Twitter's app are having this issue, then I would guess that it's not your fault.
I couldn't find a pattern among other apps that have this bug in Google's Mobile Search (Ratings on App Store, Image resolution, description content, etc) that might break whatever is scraping your app icon from the App Store.
It might be a combination of things.
I'm fairly new to iOS development and I am porting an Android app to iOS 7. The Android app provides a screen that allows the user to change a number of non persistent settings. Because these are not saved, it doesn't seem appropriate to me to expose them, on iOS, as preferences via a settings bundle and the built-in Settings app. So I'm looking at an in-app settings screen, which I understand is allowed - but perhaps not encouraged - by Apple.
Some questions:
Am I correct that an in-App approach is allowed by Apple? Most example code seems to use settings bundles. Am I going to have problems when the app is submitted to the App Store?
I can put the settings UI in a simple UITableViewController, but is there an approved way to expose this to the user? XCode 5 doesn't provide a settings identifier (and icon) for toolbar buttons, and the "Info" identifier (letter i inside a circle) seems to have been dropped too. Should I use a custom icon? Are there any de facto standards?
I haven't seen this kind of UI element before on iOS but my exposure to the platform as a user is limited.
There is nothing wrong with doing an in-app preference (table)view. You won't be rejected for that (this point seems to be way too much exagerated outside the iOS community). There are guidelines that you can follow: iOS Human Interface Guidelines... or not. As long as you don't use private APIs (assuming you know how to access them anyway), you're fine! So you can use a custom icon, the "i" button, or any UI element that convey the reasonable meaning of providing access to more info/preference.
In your code, you can use the class NSUserDefaults (with the standardUserDefaults) to store your preferences.
Many apps have in-app settings. It's fine. Apple even states that it is fine. Just don't have both.
Use a custom icon. Many apps seem to use an icon that looks like a gear.
I'm making an audio player app.
In apple's Music app, if music album or podcast doesn't have artwork, musical note image or podcast icon image are shown instead of artwork.
I want to do same thing.
Can I use images in apple's Music app for my app?
Will apple reject my app?
Do I have to create images of musical note and podcast icon by my self?
Or is it recommended to use apple's images for my app for user experience?
I also want to use history icon, podcast icon, and audiobook icon which are used for tab bar icon in apple's apps.
Reusing toolbar / button icons is fine and Apple probably appreciates UI consistency. Many many apps make use of the Apple icons not included in the core set which are in the app store. Using 'larger' art will be frowned upon though, like splash arts / stock images.
I did used an image from Apple, and I might say it's rather bizzarre:
1) I uploaded an application for a client that used the "Photos" application icon, and everything went ok, the application was approved.
2) In the next month, I uploaded a new application, for a different client, but with the same logic (only the design was different) and used again the "Photos" application icon. This time the application was reject, stating that I couldn't use Apple icons. After that, I changed the icon and it was approved.
Next time, I won't be using images from Apple. In my case, I didn't had tight deadlines, but if I had, I would be screwed.
It depends on the reviewer. Some will let it go and others won't. As far as I am concerned, it isn't worth the risk. Just find/create another graphic to use.
Note, that you don't have legal rights to use Apple's images. They are copyrighted.
Even if the application is not rejected (approver doesn't have to notice the use of copyrighted image), you can have problems later.
Yes apple will reject the application if we use Apple's owned graphics/ property. you can check the guidelines if you need