I'm completely new to iphone apps. Having successfully created and submitted a free app for Android I now wish to do the same with Apple.
The registration process seems really, really complicated though. I don't understand what or how to create an iTunes connect. Do I have to pay to become a developer in order to have an itunes connect account?
Apologies, but I'm very confused and would appreciate some pointers for a newbie.
Thanks in advance.
Guys, I was asking an innocent question and I politely thanked you for your response.I am unemployed and $99 is a lot of money for me. It may not be for you but to laugh at someone who doesn't have that kind of money to throw around, Michael Superczynski, is disgusting.
Thanks for making me feel welcome on my first visit here. Cheers, guys, really appreciate it.
Forums are for technical questions, not budget woes, sorry. I'm not interested in why you make your decisions. If you don't want feedback, don't mention your private issues....we all have our own 🙂 you want to listen to mine? I didn't think so.
If you stopped making free software you might have an income....think hard about that. It's in your hands.
Don't apologize - it's common for andriod types to start out on the wrong foot.
Should you have technical questions, please feel free, just don't blindside others by expecting to be handed a tissue for non-issues. I answered your question without any agenda and you took that as in invitation to vent your personal woes and to swear at others....
Next time read the forum rules before posting.
>but for every decent free Android app builder there must be a decent Apple app builder too?
Is that all you're interested in...free stuf?
You get what you pay for. There is just one. Xcode.
There are no shortcuts. This isn't app-in-a-box...connect the dots...whatever.
Take the hint...either decide to be a serious developer or find another hobby.
You're right. That was a thoughtless comment on my part.
The thing that triggered the comment was the fact that you are coming from Android. That eco-system is such a joke that I lost my head.
Don't let one stupid post by me color your perception of the developer community here.
I hope you can scrounge up the $99 bucks.
demonboy wrote:
Guys, I was asking an innocent question and I politely thanked you for your response.I am unemployed and $99 is a lot of money for me. It may not be for you but to laugh at someone who doesn't have that kind of money to throw around, Michael Superczynski, is disgusting.
Thanks for making me feel welcome on my first visit here. Cheers, guys, really appreciate it.
I can understand that, but if getting this app out there helps your career or in getting a job somehow, maybe it is worth it - view it as a necessary investment in your own future. If you are a programmer or trying to get a job as a programmer, having an app listed in the store could look very good on a resume, and something to show off your talents to prospoctive employers?
As KT said, the $99 fee is to keep out posers. Serious developers only and no **** apps.
Now that's funny. I can't use the passing gas word in my post but it's OK for Apple to say the same thing in their App Store Guidelines.
🙂
Thanks for your reply, Michael. I can budget for $99 over a couple of months or so, but it's not something I can just pay with the flash of some plastic, hence my comment about it being expensive. Everything is relative. I don't even own a smartphone, for the record, but I am creating some apps to help promote my hobby.
I'm not 'coming from Android' and I have no loyalties or affiliations to either Android or Apple, but I am new to Apple and the first place I was taken to in order to work out how to open my itunes connect account was this forum, hence my asking the question, KT. So sorry I have ****** you off for asking the wrong question in the wrong forum.
So as an adjunct to my previous post, if this forum is for serious developers only, I am very clearly in the wrong place.
Even so, whether I am a developer or not is irrelevant. I still have to go through a process here in order to start registering my app and this is the forum I was directed to.
$99 is just the start.
If you want to submit apps to the App Store, you need a recent Mac and a real iOS device. In fact, if you need one of each iOS device you are developing for. For instance, I'm targeting my app for all 3 iPads, Wi-Fi and Cellular. Guess what? To be sure that the app will work on any iPad a user has, I have bought a total of 5 iPads.
You won't necessarily have to buy as many devices, but do not get into the program thinking it's ok to just test on the Simulator because that will not cut the mustard.
So are you saying that non-developers shouldn't bother with using these free app creators? Surely the designers of these solutions test the apps themselves. That's the trade-off with using these free services, I get advertising on my app, but I submit it to the app store knowing that they have tested it.
For the record, I went through this process with Android and many of my friends back home have told me they all have no problems using the app. I don't want to get into an Apple vs Android argument here but for every decent free Android app builder there must be a decent Apple app builder too?
I think you misunderstand, KT. I am interested in promoting my hobby by creating a free app using a free app builder. In order to do this I have to set up an itunes connect account. In order to set up an itunes connect account I have to register as a developer. I could have been an author looking to publish an e-book, a musician looking to promote my record, or a radio producer looking to promote my podcasts. None of these people are developers but they all have to register as a developer in order to set up the itunes connect account to create their apps.
So... not interested in becoming a developer. Yes, I'm interested in free stuff. Yep, looking for shortcuts. Would love to use an app-in-the-box. And no, not interested in paying.
Unplug yourself from the Matrix once in a while and you might notice not everyone in the real world is a developer 😉
Still with an attitude, really?
Sorry you feel that way. Being an iOS Developer is a grand opportunity. I'd be unemployed if it weren't for taking the risk on signing up....that was 4 years ago and today the oppotunities still shine.
I'm sure if you calmed down and looked closely at the advantages, you'd better appreciate what Apple, Xcode, iOS and the App Store have to offer.
Good luck in any case.
I just feel a bit sad about the general reception I've received here. Like most of us I've used forums for many years but I have never given a newbie such a hard time to the extent that I've received here this evening. It's left a bitter taste in my mouth.
Good on you Keith for your thinking. I heard recently that the British government is trying to sex-up computer programming in schools because it's being lost as a skill. Kids now are experts at interacting with computers but they've lost the programming skills, and after losing its manufacturing industries computer programming, along with banking and the other service industries, was a mainstay of the British economy. Anyone who incentivises their kids to program should be encouraged.
Judging by the reception in this forum it sounds like I should have stuck at Basic. By now I could have been a master of the Matrix, but it wasn't to be and I'm a lesser man for it.
Submitting apps to the store...free or paid....require paying the USD$99 fee for an Individual Developer Program.
See:
Choosing an iOS Developer Program / Which Developer Program is for you?
Do I have to pay to submit an app?
