Comments on: REJECTED: Postage (but Apple’s claims are “impossible”)

By: Noah Spumoni

Noah Spumoni — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:51:49 +0000

The author of the site SHOULD monetize this blog. I think he or she has stumbled on a quickly-growing segment of the App Store market.

Not that I think a developer’s chances of getting their app rejected is actually SIGNIFICANT, mind you. After all, Apple has approved more than 100,000 apps, which means that even if the author can rustle up 1,000 rejected apps, that would add up to a mere 1% rejection rate–hardly news at any other scale.

Of course, a rejection is a devastating blow to any developer’s pride, especially after months of painstaking toil and suffering. Still, one needs to keep things in their proper perspective. In most cases the solutions are simple: Fix your description or artwork; if you declare categories on Apple’s classes, prefix your method names.

A particular note on category methods: Apple is right to reject apps that contain symbols that clash with Apple’s internal code. How else do you expect Apple’s code to work when your App causes symbol collisions? Any Cocoa developer knows: always prefix your categories, especially if you’re declaring them on system APIs! Rename your methods and resubmit. Problem solved.

That said, I have great expectations for this site. I do hope you start taking ads and pocket some change in the process.

By: Matt Guthmiller

Matt Guthmiller — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:54:55 +0000

I have to agree with Steven, nowhere in the documentation nor the header files for either UIViewController or UINavigationController is previousViewController. And, from the name, it seems there would be no reason to need to utilize it.

By: Henrik Strand

Henrik Strand — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:04:04 +0000

Is it possible for me as an iPhone developer to run this static analyser tool before submitting my app?

I guess this would save some time for Apple as well…

By: adam

adam — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:37:07 +0000

There’s some good followup over on the three20 google-groups page; people investigating more closely what – precisely – was wrong here.

http://groups.google.com/group/three20/browse_thread/thread/bcae33d8108ea573#

I recommend watching the google-group / joining the mailing list to keep up to date on three20 in general.

By: Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:18:08 +0000

I just at UIViewController.h right now. previousViewController is not there. I also just looked at the documentation for UIViewController. It’s not there, either.

Not in the header or the documentation? Clearly private, whatever scope Apple put on it internally.